Turn OFF notifications for students on quizzes

[marusikm]

I am a teacher (and admin but this is for the teacher role) creating a course with quizzes, where do I turn OFF the notifications for students? I don't want the student to have to do anything as this is professional ed and so the students vary in knowledge - what can I do so that students don't get notifications? MUCH appreciate any help! 

[nwilson7 · Accepted solution]

@marusikm That is very helpful.  I would set the quiz to a manual grading policy which means that the quiz would have to be released for them to get the grade notification (and you can just never release it to them).  This is how we handle these same situations.

Here is how to switch an individual item to a manual posting policy:

How do I select a grade posting policy for an assi... - Instructure Community  

Hope this helps!

-Nick

[nwilson7]

@marusikm Which type of notification are you trying to turn off?  In general, there is no way for an instructor (or an admin) to control notifications for other users.  That said, knowing what exactly you are trying to block will help as there may be a work around.

-Nick

[marusikm]

When they complete a "quiz" (such as consenting to be in the class survey) they get a point and it emails them saying "you have completed the quiz" - this is confusing since they don't feel they have taken a quiz. Conversely, if there is a way for the student to turn them off, we could tell them what to do? (they don't know this will be their first canvas use) 

[nwilson7 · Accepted solution]

@marusikm That is very helpful.  I would set the quiz to a manual grading policy which means that the quiz would have to be released for them to get the grade notification (and you can just never release it to them).  This is how we handle these same situations.

Here is how to switch an individual item to a manual posting policy:

How do I select a grade posting policy for an assi... - Instructure Community  

Hope this helps!

-Nick

[marusikm]

That would work except the person running this wants them to see the correct answer, can they still see they did this correctly and then hit next? (the class is self-paced and not monitored by anyone, I am the ID on the course but I don't teach it) 

[nwilson7 · Accepted solution]

@marusikm unfortunately this would not let them see the correct answer as everything is muted.  I am not sure then that there is a great answer for what you need.  Students can go into the course and turn off the "Grading" notifications (Open the course, on the right side menu, there is a "View Course Notifications" and you can then manage just the notifications for that course.  The one in question is the "Grading" one) but this would be ALL grades for that course, so if there are ones you want them to receive or that they would want to receive, those would also be off.  

-Nick

[marusikm]

Thank you for your help! I will let the person running this program know -- I personally don't think it is a big deal if they get an email -- if we tell them ahead of time or give them the option to turn it off -- but I also wanted to make sure I was not missing "one little box" to check that would solve the problem. Appreciate your time! 

[mrash2]

It would be nice to be able to turn this off as an instructor rather than relying on students to do so. We have professional development courses with auto-graded quizzes that present immediate results in the course. There's really no need for auto-graded quizzes to also generate emails to these users.