User Automation Event Triggers in Axis LMS

Automation Event Triggers are the solution to many of the different scenarios you may encounter as an administrator. When triggered by a user’s actions, a chain reaction will occur somewhere else in the system; this occurs time and time again, and once they’re set up, go to great lengths to automate different user-related processes in your Axis LMS System.

You’ll want to use Event Triggers to solve a huge range of possible scenarios: changing user fields, enrolling users into courses, opening up new sections of a Course - the list really is endless. If you’re just getting started with Event triggers, the best way to think of them is IF->THEN scenarios. If a User does X, then Axis should respond with Y.

Where to find Event Triggers
There are three different types of Event Triggers: Course, Automations, and Shopping Cart.

 

Using Course Automation Event Triggers, you are able to hide sections of the course; revealing additional sections only when the user has completed appropriate quizzes. You can also halt a user’s progress, and enroll them into additional training if they are failing those quizzes. When used with Shopping Cart Event Triggers, users can purchase their way into a course group, which then enrolls them into one or more courses. When the user accesses one of those courses, they can be dis-enrolled from the other courses.

 

Shopping Cart Automations are set up as part of a product purchase, and there is only one way they can be triggered: a user purchases that product.

 

One example of how you might use a Shopping Cart Automation is to offer your users to opportunity to extend their time in a course. Their initial enrollment may have come with 60 days of the course; but using the Shopping Cart Automation, users could buy additional segments of time. 

Used by themselves, you can create to extend a users access dates in your system; or a course - setting the system expiration date is especially useful for automatically de-activating users.