I see that in 2012 someone posted something similar. There are pending alerts that students don't want to see every time they log in. All the alerts need is a simple 'X' at the end of the bar to permanently dismiss them from the home/dashboard. It would be reasonable that they stay in a course page when you select it.
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Sarah Barkman Love this idea! We have some courses where journals (in test format) are available throughout the entire course. And there is no point to an alert that is there 24/7. Registration is also open year round for our students so an option to dismiss these alerts from the feed so that they do not appear every time a student logs in would be great. Then when an alert that actually needs attending to immediately appears students will not just glance over them as if they have seen those alerts hundreds of times before.
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Samuel Howard Wanted to bump this feature request. I have an alert for an unpaid invoice that I see every time I log in, because my student loan hasn't posted yet. It would be good to be able to dismiss the alert!
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Scott Butler This could also apply to faculty who have an alert in a particular course that cannot be dismissed even thought the item has been dealt with. An example is when a student is failing due to absences but the alert remains until the end of the semester.
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Michael Bolz Any progress on this, Populi?
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Jen Rand I'd also like to be able to clear alerts from the home page when I login. There are alerts that are there from each course from students submitting assignments or commenting on course. I don't click on the alert when I go in to review a course or grade work so it doesn't get cleared.
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Kim Huizinga This would be a tremendous help! Please consider adding this feature.
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Marybel Good Our students and faculty complain about alerts often. We would love a feature to allow the user to dismiss an alert. Thank you.
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Francis Feingold I too would very much like the ability to dismiss alerts. For complicated but good reasons (having to do with institutional affiliation and transcript reduplication), my registrar wants me to keep my courses unfinalized on Populi. As a result, alerts from previous semesters (in my case, ungraded questions from a 1st attempt on a test where only the 2nd attempt counted) are permanently sitting at the top of my Home page unless I go through and manually get rid of all the 1st attempts. That would be a significant pain.
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Jochanan Löwenstein Yes please! This also affects courses with multiple teachers. If another teacher already graded something, I'd like to remove the alert without having to review each submission myself.
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Jason Van Vliet This would be a really nice option. For example, as Academic Dean I share Populi's "academic admin" with one of our staff members. But I'm in that role mostly for awareness and, from time to time, taking action, whereas the staff member is the one taking care of most of the work within Populi. So if there are alerts about this or that within the academic admin role, it would be nice if I could dismiss this them once I am aware, rather than having that alert remain on my screen until the staff member has time to deal with it.
This matter is probably felt more acutely in smaller institutions where people where multiple hats. On the one hand, with its role flexibility Populi handles this reality very adeptly. On the other hand, when it comes to alerts, sometimes it feels like my phone: too many notifications. With my phone I have more control over notifications, though. With Populi, less so... unless I'm missing something in the settings somewhere. Thanks for considering improvements in this area.
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