Hi all

How can I disable notifications globally for observers? We recently implemented parents as observers of their sons' courses but it has become apparent that all notifications are sent to the parents as well - some are getting many emails. I don't believe there is a way to do this and, as a result, and we are probably going to have to 'can it' to prevent a PR issue.

I must admit that I couldn't' see any warning about this at this link which explains it. What is the Observer role? - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com) - Can I suggest Canvas makes a comment here indicating as much.

Can anyone suggest a solution that might be possible to allow parents the ability to peruse/access their sons courses but set the notification by default to 'never'??

I found this link but the script didn't appear to change the notification settings (even though it appeared to run) canvas/update_observers_notification_preferences.py at master · mbwatson/canvas · GitHub

Any help is appreciated.

regards

Greg