Disaggregate "submission annotation" notifications from "submission comment" notifications

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

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

As a faculty member teaching asynchronous classes, I rely on "submission comment" notifications to communicate with students. For example, because Canvas won't register that late responses have been added to a discussion post, I request that students leave me a note in the comments when they have submitted late responses. This way, I receive a link to their submission and can update their grade right away.

Sometime in the last couple of months, Canvas has added "submission annotation" notifications, which are lumped together with the "submission comment" notifications. This means that every time a student leaves an annotation for another student in a peer review, for example, I get a separate notification email for EACH annotation. Often, this means getting dozens and dozens of emails in a short period of time, as each student might leave 10 or 12 annotations on a single assignment, times 3 essays per student, times 75 students!

Not only does this create a distressing amount of emails, these notifications have a very similar subject line to the "submission comment" notifications, and they are difficult to filter out via my email client, or to delete in bulk without potentially losing the notifications I DO need to see.  I would love for these two different kinds of notifications, which are useful in very different ways, to have their own on/off toggle, rather than be lumped together.

18 Comments
Stef_retired
Instructure Alumni
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Status changed to: On Beta
 
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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).

Stef_retired
Instructure Alumni
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Status changed to: Completed
 
hanzi_teo
Community Participant

I was stoked to see this update but I realised the latest changes only applies to student annotation assignment type! Students are still getting massive amount of notification if the teacher annotates via Speedgrader for file upload assignment type

Please aggregate the submission annotation notifications for students!

They should not be getting a notification for each annotation the teacher makes on their assignment. Students will just turned psuh notifications off which defeats the purpose. 

Stef_retired
Instructure Alumni
Instructure Alumni

Thanks for your comment, @hanzi_teo . Please add your support to  Canvas Notifications: Stop Annotation Notification...

mike_ulrich
Community Explorer

I completely agree w/ @hanzi_teo. There's no reason for students to receive separate notices as I annotate their assignments. This floods their inbox and makes it less likely for students to actually read my feedback. 

KristinL
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