Reminders for corporate training courses

We have a SharePoint list with planned educational courses for company employees. We need to notify them about upcoming courses so they can review their schedule and allow time to attend courses they are interested in. The reminder should also appear in the Microsoft Teams channel. We will use the Virto Alerts & Reminders App to do this.

Go to the “My alerts” page and click “Add reminder.”

Choose the SharePoint list containing the planned courses and enter a title for the new reminder. Then, click “Recipients.”

In the “Recipients” section, we must add a Microsoft Teams webhook to send the alert directly to the Microsoft Teams channel. Follow the steps to install the Incoming Webhook connector.

Click “Add.”

Next, provide the name of your webhook and click “Create.”

Copy the generated link to the clipboard and click “Done.”

Finally, paste this URL into the “MS Teams Webhook URL” field in the “Recipients” block.

Next, define the appearance of your reminder in the “Message view” block. We will mark it as important using the “Is important” checkbox.

We will also add a table containing the upcoming courses, their start date and time, and their duration. Click the add table icon and select the number of rows and columns. We need three columns.

Define the columns’ width and the border thickness in pixels.

Add the “Item link” tag to the first column (using the add tag icon). The reminder will automatically add the value from the chosen list so that the recipients can see the title of the upcoming course and a link to it. The added tag will appear in blue.

Click the add field value icon and add the start date and duration to the next two columns. Added field values appear in green.

This is the resulting message.

To finish creating a reminder, go to the “Options” block and specify when recipients will receive the reminder. We need to send reminders two days before a course starts, so let’s choose “Send on date depending on a field value.” Choose “Start date” as the field value and specify “before” and “2 days.” Then click “Save.”

Now, two days before a course starts, a reminder will appear in the chosen Microsoft Teams channel.

The same message will appear as an email alert.

This is how you can organize automatic notifications for your team. Almost any level of flexibility is available. Just decide what you need to see and use the wide range of features the Virto Alerts & Reminder App offers to make it happen.