Some of our professors strongly dislike Populi because they are inundated by notifications when students submit assignments. They would like to be able to turn off all notifications. When we explain that they cannot turn them off this causes them to despise the system. We want our professors to love Populi and the fact that our teachers are getting thousands of notification emails throughout the semester is not helping.
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Brendan O'Donnell Josh,
This is something that has been really bugging us, too—so much so that, about one minute ago, we pushed an update out to Populi to let individual faculty users enable/disable those email notifications. Here's how it works:
- The faculty logs in and clicks "Settings" in the upper right of the screen (by the orange help button)
- On the Settings screen, he clicks the Notifications tab
- There's a setting there for Assignment Submission emails. Check No and Save your settings...
- ...and voilá, no more assignment submission emails!
Actually, your faculty don't even need to do that: we changed the default to "No". So, you'd only perform the above steps if you wanted to turn those notifications ON (click Yes...).
So, spread the word, and we hope this engenders some faculty love!
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Claire Curole I wish STUDENTS could adjust notification preferences! I would love to be able to set a particular discussion to "no emails" or "instructor only" or get a once-per-day digest of notifications instead of multiple emails in one day for an active discussion. I also don't need emails about "followers" and birthdays and whatever.
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Adam Sentz @Claire - Students can toggle whether or not they want email updates about a discussion by going to that discussion and clicking "Get Email Updates" or "Stop Email Updates" as the case may be.
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