[ARCHIVED] Instructor Receives Notifications for Student Peer Review Annotations

[cpadavano]

Hi Community,

I hope you can answer a question to an experience one of my instructors has had.

The instructor has a Peer Review assignment set up where students will leave annotation feedback to one another on their assignment submissions. The instructor recently started getting email notifications for the annotations (not assignment comments) and does not want this since they are annotations (see images below). In addition, there are repetitive ones from the same set of students, so it is triggering with every annotation comment it appears. 

The question is: Is there a way to turn this off without turning off notifications for assignment comments? 

The instructor wants to still receive notifications on assignment comments in case students add something in there, but not for each time annotations are left. Has anyone experienced this and/or knows a workaround for this?

A PDF I found by Canvas only states notifications by an instructor, so it is confusing the true functionality of the "Submission Comment" notification (document: Canvas Notifications).

Thank you!

 

[Anna_Shaver]

A colleague of mine just told me her Canvas had started acting this way. I didn't believe her (I was still receiving immediate comment notifications and daily annotation notifications), so I messed around with my Notification settings for "Submission comment." When I switched it off and added comments and annotations in the Student View, I no longer received notifications for either. When I switched it back on again to "immediately," I received notifications for both. Is there no way to control these separately, as there used to be?

[erinhmcmillan]

Hello,

Annotations have been part of the Submission Comment notification type since 25 April 2020, as noted in Ready Release Notes (2020-04-25) - Canvas Community. This functionality was created for students. 

Our product teams are always interested in your feedback. If you're interested in seeing this notification supported for the instructor role as well, suggest an idea so our product team is aware!

Thanks,

Erin

[Anna_Shaver]

Here's a feature request: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Idea-Conversations/Disaggregate-quot-submission-annotation-quot-n...