Announcement, Notifications, Tips, Quote Competition

The following are some of the first available Rumi features. They aim to deliver personal messages to CN users. These messages pop up from the Rumi icon on the top navigation bar. 

Announcement

This service sends out announcements created by both CN Admin and institution admins. When there is a new announcement available, it automatically pops up, taking a higher priority over other services. Announcements labeled "Important" by admins show up first to make sure they will not be missed.

When there are multiple announcements, the more important or not viewed items show up first. Users can use the Next and Previous buttons to navigate through these announcements. 

Notifications

Rumi also notifies users about updates related to their ePortfolio, such as new visitors, endorsements, badges, certificates, recommendations, etc. You may click the view detail button to find out more about an update. Below is an example of receiving a new visitor and endorsement.

Tips

As a personal assistant, Rumi gives learning and teaching suggestions to each CN user based on their profile, behaviors, and performance on the platform. These tips help learners to have better learning experiences and outcomes, and help instructors to teach more effectively. Based on user feedback, Rumi will provide more targeted tips to each user. 

Rumi tips first pop up as a mini massage. If you are interested, click "Read More" to dive into the detail. 

Users may use the Previous and Next Tips to go through tips. The "I Already Know" link allows you to give feedback to Rumi. Once you report already know about a tip, you will no longer see that tip. 

As you make progress in your courses, Networks, and ePortfolio, new tips will be presented to you.

Quote Competition

This is a feature for fun. It first pops up as a mini massage. If you would like to take a break and play this game, click "Read More".

Rumi has collected taglines from users' ePortfolios. These taglines are presented in pairs for you to compare and select the one you like better (see #1 in the second screenshot below). You may skip a pair (see #2). Click "View Leaderboard" (see #3) to view which quotes are leading the competition. 

Disable A Service

Individual users can disable these services for their CN account from Rumi Settings on the CN navigation bar. 

Institution admins can disable these services for all Channel members from CN Channel>>Rumi>>Settings. Read this article to learn more.