Conference Participation/Reduce notifications

[bohanlon]

My institution's students are distance learners, and I am working on using the Conferences feature for their webinar presentations that we'd like to be viewable for their peers. We have a course we use a student center (all our students are enrolled in that course) where we'd host these webinars/conferences. 

Problem:

1. When you create a conference, you can select all users, no users, or manually select users.
2. All users added to a conference receive a notification email. Not all students want to attend every conference. 
3. Selecting no users means nobody can see the conference. A user might be invited in order to view the conference.
4. Our students already receive emails from their respective advisors for their courses, and I don't want to needlessly flood their inboxes. At this point, we would have maybe 2-3 Conferences per week, but this will grow as our school body grows, and I don't want emails from us becoming spam-like. I want to keep our email communications relevant.

Potential solution:

• I'd like to create a registration system, to invite only those who opt into webinars they want to watch, so the notification they'd receive would be expected and relevant. I know the "student appointment block" option might be one way of achieving that, but then students are still receiving emails for those newly created appointment blocks.  

Other ideas as to how I can use this Conferences feature while being mindful of the number of emails/notifications our students receive? What might I be missing?

[Robbie_Grant]

 @bohanlon ,

First, I want to apologize for your question sitting in the community for so long without a response.

Second, it looks like you have stumped the Canvas Community.  Were you able to find an answer to your question? I am going to go ahead and mark this question as answered because there hasn't been any more activity in a while, so I assume that you have the information that you need. If you still have a question about this or if you have information that you would like to share with the community, by all means, please do come back and leave a comment.

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Robbie

[s_k_benson]

This is a HUGE problem!! I can't believe no one has solved it yet- we are also trying to create conferences for select groups of students. Some of those in our department (me) have the option of limited invitees but others are only given the option of inviting none or all of the students, when they attempt to select students their names are all grayed out and the can not uncheck the boxes next to their names.

Is there a hidden setting we haven't found? At the moment it looks like we all have the same settings applied to our courses- so why can I choose to invite some students and my colleague has to invite all of the students?

[lies_van_winkel]

We also feel this need! Students are overwhelmed with notifications!