Notification Rule for Self-Enroll Action

[themidiman]

We have several faculty/staff professional development courses that are set up for self-enroll. Does anyone know of a good way to notify those in the teacher role that someone new has self-enrolled? Apart from having the teachers check the roster each day, it seems like this should already be part of the notification rules matrix. 

Does this need to be a feature request idea?

Thanks!

[jw2546]

Any luck finding an answer to this? We too need to know when someone self-enrolls so that we can create a sample Canvas space for them to work within.

[stuart_ryan]

Hi JEFHQ12951,

I have had a poke round and am unable to find any existing feature idea for this, I think it would be a good candidate for creating a feature idea as you suggested.

Once you have, please feel free to post the link back in this thread to help other people find it as well.

Cheers,

Stuart

[themidiman]

Thanks, Stuart. I'm not sure how this could be the correct answer, but I've discovered in the meantime that I am getting notified of students being self enrolled after all. I wasn't sure which rule this falls under. The notification email message appears with this format:

Subject: <Student> accepted the Course Invitation

Message Body: <Student> just accepted their invitation to participate in the course, <Course Code>. Course role: Student

So it's working but I'm just not sure what notification rule is controlling this. 

[stuart_ryan]

Hi JEFHQ12951,

Thanks for the update. That is an interesting one, it may be one that is stock standard and not modifiable in the notification preferences. I had a look myself and couldn't seem to find any one that would link back either.

Cheers,
Stuart

[jw2546]

How are the students self-enrolling? Are you sending them the self-enrollment url? The wording of the response email you get seems to be the same as what I get when I enroll someone and they accept the enrollment.

[themidiman]

We post the self-enroll link on our faculty support/development website for our department. 

I agree it looks like the same message you would get when you add someone manually to your course via the People tab. However, I don't recall getting notified of someone accepting my course invites this way. (I could be wrong on this though)

The course INVITEE gets a notification in THEIR inbox with this message, but not the course INVITER. 

[Robbie_Grant]

JEFHQ12951,

Were you able to find an answer to your question? I am going to go ahead and mark this question as answered because there hasn't been any more activity in a while so I assume that you have the information that you need. If you still have a question about this or if you have information that you would like to share with the community, by all means, please do come back and leave a comment.  Also, if this question has been answered by one of the previous replies, please feel free to mark that answer as correct.

Robbie

[themidiman · Accepted solution]

It is assumed answered, Robbie. However I am going to take it one step to point out to future readers is that it's listed on page 15 in this document: https://s3.amazonaws.com/tr-learncanvas/docs/CanvasNotifications.pdf under the heading 'Alerts' 

Thanks for following up!