Assignment Submissions: How do I get notified for only students in my section, not the whole course?

[AndyEMC]

Hello,

When trying to be notified of a student submission using notifications, I instead get emails for every student in the course, and not just in the sections I teach. This makes it very difficult to know when I need to grade, especially for late submissions.

Is there a way to only get notified by Section you are enrolled in as a teacher?

I am an admin who has access to all courses we run. I know I can set notifications by Course, but can I set them by section?

[chriscas · Accepted solution]

Hi @AndyEMC,

In general, you'd want to have your own enrollment in the course/courses limited to interact only with your own sections.  Since you're an an admin, you should be able to make that change to your enrollments, but if the option is not available to you, you'd then need to work with your full root admin to make that modification.  It may also be something that you need to investigate changing in your SIS feed, depending how that process works at your school/institution.

I hope this info helps!

-Chris

[AndyEMC]

Followup  ; can we update this for all teachers using the "limit_section_privileges" boolean flag in the enrollments.csv via SIS upload, or will any manually added instructors not have their flag overidden?

[chriscas]

Hi @AndyEMC,

If you run and download an sis export report from your account settings area selecting the enrollments option, then modify the column, and re-upload it, it should update pretty much everything as long as the course and user have an sis_id.  If you take this bulk approach, you may want to ensure that the people you added manually are added to all appropriate sections, otherwise you may unintentionally remove access from sections they need (often when adding manually, people jus add to one section and stop there just to save time).  Let me know if this makes sense to you.

-Chris

[AndyEMC]

Unfortunately, this solution did not work perfectly. Now our Admin-Teachers cannot post Announcements for just a single section unless they teach it. I think we'll just have to set them up with separate Admin accounts and Teacher accounts.