Empower teachers and admins better manage notifications and communications capabilities for students

Status: Identified Submitted by Instructure Alumni on ‎02-06-2023 09:56 AM

Theme Overview

Teachers and Admins feel that students are missing important information related to their courses, or are confused my having too many; it's difficult to help students get the right notification configuration for a productive learning experience.

What value could this provide to users?

  • Enable/Disable Notifications for Select Courses and Sub-accounts at Admin Level
  • Student Notifications Automatically Turned On For Crucial Messages and Comments
  • Reduce notification noise by giving teachers the ability to mute notifications for specific activities or timeframes
  • Ability to set default notifications at role/account/sub-account/course level
  • Admins can disable individual users/courses conversation capabilities
  • Entering a description when marking "Notify users that this content has changed"

Referenced Ideas (10)

[Notifications] Simplify the notification functionality Submitted by: JaneS
[Notifications] Improving the usability of appointment notifications Submitted by: celia_fdez7
[Notifications] Add Notification for when a Module is published Submitted by: karaka
[Notifications] Turn on/off notifications for groups Submitted by: DanielJ1
[Notifications] Modify default email notifications to have “Content Updates” and “Files” off (opt-in) Submitted by: maki1
[Notifications] Entering a description when marking "Notify users that this content has changed" Submitted by: SLHS_KG
[Notifications] Enable/Disable Notifications for Select Courses and Sub-accounts at Admin Level Submitted by: christopher_ma5
[Notifications] Student Notifications Automatically Turned On For Crucial Messages and Comments Submitted by: GaylenStewart
[Notifications] Temporary course notification pause - by the instructor Submitted by: petern
[Notifications] Default notification settings profiles by user role Submitted by: seth

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