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mwatson2 · ‎10-01-2017

@matthew_emond , Thanks for getting in touch. I saw your presentation at InstructureCon this past summer, and I began using your Wrapper immediately. You are correct--I am hitting the Update notification Preference endpoint that you've guessed. I would bet others would be interested in updating notification preferences, so that may be one to tack onto the todo list. I haven't run into any issues with the wrapper yet, so keep up the great work! I'd love to help out and contribute, but I just haven't found the time yet. If you're interested, I had an earlier version of this in which I was hitting the Update Preferences by Category endpoint. However, that was missing some preferences when I would send the request, so I brute-forced it and hit them all individually. Thanks for all your hard work on this--it makes things much simpler! Matt

mwatson2 · ‎09-07-2017

I think I've written a solution for this in Python. Given a set of term_ids, it pulls all courses, gathers all observers, and changes every notification preference to "never." I would appreciate any help improving this if anyone cares to sift through it. Here it is on Github. * Edit: It was dumb of me to post the code before, as I have already changed it. My most recent edit is to remove the code and link to it on Github.

mwatson2 · ‎08-30-2017

Our SIS dumped in parents as observers in all of our courses. This is fine, but it automatically makes the notification frequency set to "Notify me right away" upon grade changes. We would prefer the parents have the opportunity to opt-in to receiving notifications if they choose. Is there a way to mass change all observers' notification settings to "Never"? I should note that I've tried to accomplish this with a few tools already to no avail. I'm relatively new to Postman, but I don't see an obvious and easy way to pull in all our current course's observers and change their notification preferences at once. This feature is not already built into this Python Canvas API wrapper (which I love by the way), and I'd prefer to know if a relatively simple way to do this has already been discovered before I embark on tinkering with it.

mwatson2 · ‎08-01-2017

Lisa, I'm about to do the exact same thing in a couple of weeks, and I'm a little unsure about it. I had a similar approach in mind, so I would be really interested in seeing how your orientation goes and what you learn from your experience.

mwatson2 · ‎07-29-2017

Tyler, I live in Raleigh. Where are you more specifically? Perhaps I could help. I'm not a professional instructional designer, but I've set up many Canvas courses over the past few years.

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