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CourseSignal: Push Messages to Live Courses Without Republishing

Kingsley

Kingsley

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CourseSignal: Push Messages to Live Courses Without Republishing

You published a course last month. Now there's a policy update you need every learner to see. Or a deadline reminder. Or you want to collect quick feedback on the new content.

Your options? Republish the entire course. Email people who might not check their inbox. Hope they notice.

CourseSignal (also known as EchoCast) offers a better way: inject messages directly into your live courses—without touching your source files.

How It Works

Add our lightweight script to your course once. From then on, you can push modals to learners while they're actively taking the course:

  • Alerts — Important announcements, deadline reminders, policy updates
  • Polls — Quick surveys, opinion gathering, knowledge checks
  • Feedback — NPS scores, star ratings, open-ended responses
  • Forms — Multi-field data collection, contact info, assessments
  • CTAs — Link buttons, registration prompts, resource downloads

Messages appear in a clean modal overlay. Learners acknowledge, respond, or click through. You get the data instantly.

Smart Timing

Control exactly when modals appear:

  • On load — Immediately when the course opens
  • Time delay — After X seconds in the course
  • Slide-based — At a specific slide number
  • Scroll depth — When learner scrolls to a certain point
  • Exit intent — When mouse moves to leave the page

Plus frequency controls so you're not bombarding learners: max displays per session, per day, per learner, with cool-down periods.

Use Cases

Urgent Updates

Compliance deadline changed? Policy updated? Push an alert to everyone currently taking affected courses. No republishing, no LMS notification that gets ignored.

In-Context Feedback

Instead of a post-course survey email (5% response rate), ask for feedback while learners are still in the content (80%+ response rate).

Knowledge Checkpoints

Add quick polls at key moments to verify understanding without building them into the source course.

Resource Distribution

New job aid available? Push a CTA modal with the download link directly to learners in relevant courses.

Installation

One script tag:

<script src="https://api.coursesignal.happyalien.ai/inject.js"
        data-org-id="YOUR_ORG_ID"
        data-course-id="YOUR_COURSE_ID"></script>

Or upload your SCORM package and we inject it automatically.

Pricing

Sparks are consumed only when a modal actually displays to a learner:

  • Alerts & CTAs: 100 Sparks per display
  • Polls, Feedback & Forms: 300 Sparks per display

No display, no charge.

Analytics Included

Every modal tracks:

  • Display count and unique learners reached
  • Response rates and actual responses
  • Time-based trends
  • Course-specific performance

See what's working, what's being ignored, and optimize your messaging.

Stop Republishing

Your courses shouldn't be frozen artifacts. CourseSignal lets you communicate with learners in context, when they're actually paying attention. No rebuilds. No re-uploads. Just push and reach.

Try it at happyalien.ai.

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