The Top Tutor LMS Automations to Easily Enhance e-Learning Engagement

From gamification to personalized learning journeys, these Tutor LMS automations are guaranteed to enhance your e-learning engagement.

Let’s face it: e-learning engagement is a challenge.

Sometimes, short of actually gluing your learners to their chairs, it can feel like you don’t have any options but to watch hopelessly as they drift off into digital cyberspace. But don’t worry. We have some strategies for roping those space cadets and getting them back to their learning terminal.

Whether you’re running human resource training and development programs within your organization or heading up an online university, automating your Tutor LMS site can boost your engagement numbers.

In this post, we’ll introduce you to Uncanny Automator (a.k.a., the best teaching assistant for Tutor LMS) and show you some powerful e-learning automations for enhancing engagement.

How Automation Enhances e-Learning Student Engagement

Keeping students engaged isn’t just about boosting their grades—it’s about improving retention, fostering community, and enhancing the user experience. Higher engagement leads to…

• Higher course completion rates: Students who feel connected are more likely to hit their milestones, complete their courses, and graduate from their programs.
• Better knowledge retention: Engaged students retain more of the information that they learn, the ultimate goal of any e-learning program.
• Increased satisfaction and loyalty: Engaged learners are likelier than not to have a positive experience, building a sense of community, belonging, and loyalty.
• Longer-lasting enrollment: Students who receive greater amounts of support and encouragement are likelier than not to return for future learning experiences.

But if there are all of these benefits to e-learning engagement, then why is it so difficult to keep learners from dropping out and slipping off into cyberspace? In three words: facts, forgetfulness, and fatigue.

• Facts: Engagement metrics aren’t always easy to collect and analyze. Identifying active and inactive students, and understanding the level of engagement for each can be hard without the right tools.
• Forgetfulness: With remote learning, it’s challenging to keep students consistently engaged throughout the course. Without regular face-to-face interactions, both learners and educators can become forgetful of assignment deadlines or important communications.
• Fatigue: Many students experience screen fatigue or are easily distracted when online. Unlike in physical classrooms, instructors have limited control over students’ focus and environment, making it tough to keep them actively engaged in learning sessions.

So you see, keeping students motivated in an online learning platform is a challenge for all e-learning administrators and instructors—especially when you’re not there to see if they’ve started drawing doodles in their notebooks.

But this is where automation steps in as the virtual teaching assistant who can keep an eye on your learners through their monitors…

Wait, that sounded a little creepy. Let’s try it again.

With e-learning automation tools such as Uncanny Automator, you can monitor your learners’ engagement to ensure that they are meeting their targets and getting value from your content.

Here’s how e-learning automation can make a real difference:

• Save time: Instead of sending reminders or tracking every student’s progress manually, automation takes care of it, freeing up your time to create more, valuable content.
• Maintain contact: Automated communications (including some AI-generated answers that we’ll show you later) are a surefire way to keep up constant contact with your learners.
• Grow smoothly: As your student numbers go up, automation scales with you, managing engagement without piling on extra work.
• Provide data and insights: Automated systems can capture data on student behavior, giving you insights to refine your courses and improve engagement.
• Send timely notifications: Automated notifications remind students about new content, events, or updates, so they stay informed and feel connected to their learning.
• Personalize the learning journey: Automating personalized messages based on student progress helps you encourage or redirect them as needed. This personal touch can make all the difference in student commitment.

With automation in your e-learning toolkit, you can make sure no student slips through the cracks, creating an online learning experience that’s efficient, engaging, and truly supportive.

But, now that you know the value of e-learning automation in enhancing student engagement, the only question is, how do you implement it?

Uncanny Automator: the Best Tutor LMS Teaching Assistant

If you’ve ever wished that you could hire a TA for each student, then we’re happy to inform you that today is the day!

Uncanny Automator is #1 automation and integration tool for WordPress websites, connecting all of your favorite apps and plugins. This makes U-Bot (Automator’s lovable mascot) the ideal teaching assistant for any Tutor LMS website.

Need to remind a learner about an approaching deadline? U-Bot drafted the email and sent it out yesterday. Want to reach out to a student after they failed a quiz? U-Bot has compiled a list of remedial content for you to share. Feel like rewarding your best students with more than just a sticker? U-Bot topped up their account with $5 in credit that they can use in your online merch store.

Not entirely convinced that Automator is the TA you’ve been looking for? Here are some of U-Bot’s best qualifications:

• Affordability: Unlike other automation tools that charge per automation, Automator is built to save you money. Say goodbye to per-automation fees that add up with each student. In other words, the more you automate your e-learning workflows, the more you save.
• Ease of Use: Automator’s intuitive, click-and-play interface makes setting up automations easy for anyone. No need to be a tech expert—if you can click, you can automate! Plus, U-Bot is seamlessly integrated with your WordPress website, putting all of your data right at your fingertips.
• Scalability: Whether your virtual classroom has one student or one-hundred, Automator can handle it. With powerful features like Post, User, and Token Loops, you can manage all of your students in bulk, saving you hours of manual work. And the best part? Your costs stay the same, no matter how much you automate.
• Integrations and Addons: Automator has 200 integrations (including Webhooks) so you can replace all of your single-use plugins and reduce the bloatware on your website. Additionally, Automator Plus and Elite licenses come with powerful addons such as the User Lists Addon, giving you the power to turn your WordPress website into a self-contained CRM.

With Uncanny Automator as your TA, you can focus on creating more informative course content while U-Bot ensures your learners remain fully engaged.

Ready to hire the best Tutor LMS teaching assistant in all of WordPress? Your Automator Pro license is all you need to enhance your e-learning engagement>>>.

Not sure that you’re ready for an Automator Pro license? No worries. Download the FREE forever Automator plugin and register your account for some complimentary app credits. You’ll be able to demo some of these e-learning automations at no cost.

Key Tutor LMS Automations to Boost e-Learning Engagement

Now that you have your Automator Pro license, let’s take a look at the best Uncanny Automator recipes for improving e-learning engagement, along with some clear steps for implementing them.

1. e-Learning Gamification Automation

You know that app on your phone that you keep opening? The one with a daily challenge and irresistible rewards? We know you know what we’re talking about—we all have those guilty pleasures.

Well, the reason you can’t get away from that app is because the designers are using a little hack called “gamification”. Whether it’s daily streaks or in-game rewards such as badges and power-ups, gamification is a powerful tool for fostering habits (a.k.a., building engagement).

If you have an ecommerce store attached to your e-learning platform, then you can boost learner engagement with this Automator recipe. After one of our learners completes a lesson, we’re able to reward them with some store credit, incentivizing further engagement.

Try out this recipe yourself by following the steps below:

1. Create a New Recipe: From your WordPress Admin Dashboard, navigate to Automator > Add new recipe. In the popup window that appears, select Logged-in users.
2. Name Your Recipe: Give your recipe a name that makes it easy to recognize at a glance. For example, we have named this recipe “e-Learning Gamification: Store Credit”.
3. Configure Your Trigger(s): In the Triggers panel, select Tutor LMS. From the dropdown list that appears, select A user completes a lesson. Automator will prompt you to select a Course and Lesson. Once you’re finished, click Save.
4. Configure Your Action(s): In the Actions panel, click Add action and select Advanced Coupons. From the dropdown list that appears, select Add a specific amount of store credit to the user’s account. Automator will prompt you to set the Amount and the Activity Description. Once you’re finished, click Save.
5. Go Live: In the Recipe box, toggle the recipe from Draft to Live.

Don’t have Advanced Coupons? No worries. It’s a great plugin to improve your Woo store, but if you don’t have it, you can still gamify your e-learning website. Simply replace the Advanced Coupons action with Woo > Generate and email a coupon code.

2. Foster Engagement Through Community

Few things enhance engagement like creating a sense of belonging. When your learners feel that they are part of a broader community, they are far more likely to get and remain engaged.

BuddyBoss is the #1 platform for building social communities on WordPress. And, luckily for you, Automator integrates completely with this social platform. With the recipe pictured above, we’re able to add our learners to a BuddyBoss group whenever they join an associated course.

This way, our learners can keep each other accountable—and engaged!

Follow these steps to recreate this recipe on your own:

1. Create a New Recipe: From your WordPress Admin Dashboard, navigate to Automator > Add new recipe. In the popup window that appears, select Logged-in users.
2. Name Your Recipe: Give your recipe a name that makes it easy to recognize at a glance. For example, we have named this recipe “Tutor LMS BuddyBoss Integration”.
3. Configure Your Trigger(s): In the Triggers panel, select Tutor LMS. From the dropdown list that appears, select A user is enrolled in a course. Automator will prompt you to select a Course. Once you’re finished, click Save.
4. Configure Your Action(s): In the Actions panel, click Add action and select BuddyBoss. From the dropdown list that appears, select Add the user to a group. Automator will prompt you to select a Group. Once you’re finished, click Save.
5. Go Live: In the Recipe box, toggle the recipe from Draft to Live.

Want to find more ways to foster community and engagement on your e-learning website? Check out Automator’s full list of BuddyBoss triggers and actions—there are more than 50!

3. Automated Instructor Notifications

Were you ever the kid in the classroom that raised their hand to ask a question when the teacher’s back was turned? Remember holding your arm up for so long that your shoulder cramped? How motivated were you to ask another question and continue engaging? Probably not very.

For e-learners, there is an equally painful experience: posting a question in a course and/or forum then waiting patiently for an instructor’s response. And then waiting some more. And then waiting a while longer…

Tutor LMS supports email notifications for instructors and students for various events (course enrollment, quiz submission, etc.). But Automator can expand on those notifications to ensure that your learners never get a virtual shoulder cramp.

The Automator recipe pictured above allows us to send a Slack message to a course instructor whenever a learner posts a question in their course. And, because Automator is a deep integration tool, you can include valuable information in the Slack message such as the question itself, the course, the date and time of the message, and more.

1. Create a New Recipe: From your WordPress Admin Dashboard, navigate to Automator > Add new recipe. In the popup window that appears, select Logged-in users.
2. Name Your Recipe: Give your recipe a name that makes it easy to recognize at a glance. For example, we have named this recipe “Automator Instructor Notifications”.
3. Configure Your Trigger(s): In the Triggers panel, select Tutor LMS. From the dropdown list that appears, select A user posts a question in a course. Automator will prompt you to select a Course. Once you’re finished, click Save.
4. Configure Your Action(s): In the Actions panel, click Add action and select Slack. From the dropdown list that appears, select Send a direct message to a Slack user. Automator will present you with a form to select a Slack user and draft your Message:
   1. Select the Slack user from the dropdown list.
   2. Draft your message using tokens (i.e., dynamic data pulled from your WordPress website and from within recipes). You can include the “Posted by” and “Question” tokens from the trigger to help your instructor. Once you’re finished, click Save.
5. Go Live: In the Recipe box, toggle the recipe from Draft to Live.

That’s it! No more raised hands waving around like inflatables at the car dealership. This e-learning automation will help improve engagement.

But, we’re sure that your instructors could also use a hand.Prior to sending the Slack message, get OpenAI’s ChatGPT—or an AI assistant of your own—to review the question and draft a response. This way your instructors can reduce response times to questions and foster even more engagement.

4. Automate Student Progression

Learning never ends—but courses do.

Automator recipes like the one pictured below ensure enhanced e-learning engagement through automated course progression.

Whenever one of your learners completes a course, we automatically enroll them in the next course so they can continue their education and training.

Follow these steps to recreate this recipe yourself:

1. Create a New Recipe: From your WordPress Admin Dashboard, navigate to Automator > Add new recipe. In the popup window that appears, select Logged-in users.
2. Name Your Recipe: Give your recipe a name that makes it easy to recognize at a glance. For example, we have named this recipe “Automated Course Progression”.
3. Configure Your Trigger(s): In the Triggers panel, select Tutor LMS. From the dropdown list that appears, select A user completes a course. Automator will prompt you to select a Course. Once you’re finished, click Save.
4. Configure Your Action(s): In the Actions panel, click Add action and select Tutor LMS. From the dropdown list that appears, select Enroll the user in a course. Automator will prompt you to select a Course. Once you’re finished, click Save.
5. Go Live: In the Recipe box, toggle the recipe from Draft to Live.

If you’d rather keep some courses behind a paywall, there are some alternate ways to automate course progression.

For example, Automator integrates with the best CRMs for WordPress so you tag learners whenever they complete a course. Then, CRMs such as ActiveCampaign can trigger automations of their own, promoting related courses to the one your student has just completed.

Or, if you’re using WooCommerce, you can automatically create an order with a discount applied and email it to your recent course graduate, reducing friction in your sales funnel.

5. Personalized Learning Paths

We all know that students learn at different paces, and sometimes their quiz scores reflect that journey. But, as an educator or administrator, you don’t always have the time to create personalized learning experiences. But U-Bot, your trusty teaching assistant, does.

With Automator recipes like that one pictured below, we’re able to create a different learning path for our students based on their quiz score. We can unenroll them from a course that is proving too challenging, reset their progress, and enroll them in a course that will reinforce their knowledge.

Similarly, one of the reasons that e-learning engagement drops off could be that some of your learners simply aren’t getting the challenge they need.

You can easily create pre-enrollment quizzes for some of your more basic or introductory courses. A high score can count as an automatic course completion, allowing your more eager learners to jump right into advanced course material.

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Conclusion

Boosting e-learning engagement isn’t just about adding bells and whistles; it’s about creating a meaningful and supportive experience that keeps students connected to their goals.

With Uncanny Automator as your trusty teaching assistant, you can create engaging, customized pathways for each learner—whether that’s rewarding them for hitting milestones, enrolling them in the next course, or sending instructors a nudge when a question goes unanswered.

Ready to let U-Bot handle the heavy lifting? With Automator in your toolkit, you can focus on what matters most: creating exceptional course content.

So go ahead, give your Tutor LMS students a more engaging experience with Uncanny Automator>>>.

Until next time, happy automating!

Brendan Da Costa

Brendan Da Costa is a WordPress content writer with a Shakespearean-level gift of gab (his words, not ours). He left a successful career in economics to pursue his passion for writing and discovered the wonderful world of WordPress while building his own website to showcase his work. As a self-taught enthusiast who spends more time tinkering with plugins and themes than he would care to admit, Brendan writes equally for WordPress beginners and veteran developers alike. With his unique blend of expertise and creativity, he continues to elevate the digital landscape one WordPress article at a time.

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