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title: Create Record Alerts and Post Student Progress
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description: Configure flows to create student record alerts and send course offering participant insights directly to Slack.
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# Create Record Alerts and Post Student Progress

Configure flows to create student record alerts and send course offering participant insights directly to Slack.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions with Education Cloud</td></tr></tbody></table>

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d104540e71 ">To turn on Advanced Academic Operations:</td>

            <td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d104540e71 ">Education Cloud Full Access</td>

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            <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d104540e71 ">To configure flows:</td>

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Before you start:

- [Turn on Context Definitions](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ind.context_service_turn_on_context_service.htm&language=en_US&type=5)
- [Turn on Advanced Academic Operations](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_advanced_academic_operations.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Use Advanced Academic Operations to extend Education Cloud with student information system (SIS) capabilities that streamline and automate academic processes.")
- [Prepare your org for the Course Operations Agent](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sfdo.ec_prep_org_for_course_operations_agent.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "Provide agent actions with the required data. Define at-risk criteria, supply data for course offering participant insights, create an advising record type for cases, and create employee records for faculty members.")

1. Modify the EDU Course Operations: Create Record Alert flow.
    1. From Setup, find and select **Flows**.
    2. Select **EDU Course Operations: Create Record Alert**.
    3. Click **Save as New Flow**.
    4. For the Get Advising Case element, add a condition where the Record Type ID equals the ID of the advising case record type.
        
        To locate the record type ID, see [Find the Salesforce ID of a Record Type](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=000384487&type=1&language=en_US).
    5. Save and activate the flow.
2. Modify the EDU Course Operations: Post Student Progress to Slack Channel flow.
    1. From Setup, find and select **Flows**.
    2. Select **EDU Course Operations: Post Student Progress to Slack Channel**.
    3. Click **Save as New Flow**.
    4. To post student progress on a different schedule, in the Start element, edit the frequency.
    5. Save and activate the flow.