Annotation notifications

[HBreazeale]

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

For more information, please read through the  Canvas Deploy Notes (2021-07-21).

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I am an instructor in Canvas, but recently took a course in Canvas. That is when I realized that Canvas generates a new email for each annotation that is made on an assignment. This would be fine except when you consider the volume of annotations that are made on 6 or 7 page writing assignments, I know that sometimes I make over 20 annotations and getting an email for each one of these would be frustrating to say the least.  I would suggest modifying the emails associated with annotation comments to decrease the notifications. I think students become jaded to the notifications because of the volume of notifications and then they miss important information (think of the boy who cried wolf). I have looked at my notifications settings and I was not able to find how to turn annotation notifications off. 

[Stef_retired]

Comments from Instructure

Canvas code has been updated to disable notifications for annotations created during a student annotation submission. For more information, please read through the  Canvas Deploy Notes (2021-07-21).

[KateBun]

Hello! On 8-21-21, there was a comment saying the student annotation submission was fixed but it is Sept 2022 and I'm still getting 100 emails every time a student makes an annotation on assignment. Are there instructions on how to disable this without disabling all student submission comments?