Limiting notification for a large number of enrollments

[QuinSwallow]

Our institution configures several academic advisors wtih many observer enrollments which, in a given semester, results in dozens of observer course enrollments at a given time (to provide academic services / assistance for 100+ students). This results in a large number of unwanted notifications being delivered to these observin staff members. Even with notifications being disabled at the top level, individual course notifications (for several dozen courses) remain enabled by default:

This means to disable these notifications, this setting must be turned-off by the observer manually - in / for each course.

Is there another way of disabling these notifications in a quick, easier way? I'm recommending to the user that they set-up some filters in their email client to automatically delete these notifications, but I'm hoping there is another solution that is easier for the user- possibly something we can do on our end. I can't find a better solution in documentation or in the API. Any ideas? Thanks!

[ColtonSwapp]

Hello @QuinSwallow 

Thanks for posting this in the Canvas Community! 

Filtering in your email service seems like the best solution for this based on the way you have described your course enrollments and such. 

I looked over the Canvas API documentation and some of the admin guides for quite a while! My understanding is that there is not a way to disable notifications for all users in a course. I think this is because those are based on the user preferences. Each user would need to disable those in their notifications Preferences unfortunately. 

I know this is not the answer you are looking for and I do apologize. 

Hopefully this helps a little bit! 

-Colton