Suppress automatic notifications before they start, for entire classroom?

(Philip B. Stark) #1

noob, so please forgive this, but I searched and didn’t find an answer.

Whenever a student accepts an assignment, I get a notification (and a chance to unsubscribe), since I have push access. I can’t find a place in the classroom settings to avoid getting that first notice. In a class of 70+ students, it’s a lot of email traffic.

Is there a way to turn off those notifications for the entire classroom, rather than having to turn them off one student at a time, one assignment at a time?

Thanks very much,
Philip

(Rob Muhlestein) #2

One quick alternative, if you are using a mail service that supports it, is to have all the email from GitHub go directly to a different folder. I prefer this because I actually appreciate the real time notification that work is being done (outside of the initial import deluge).

(Philip B. Stark) #3

Thank you for the suggestion!

Unfortunately, I’m involved in a number of research projects that use GitHub; would prefer not to miss those notifications. But perhaps a filter that looks for the assignment name stub would do it.

Best wishes,
Philip

(Katrina Owen) #4

GitHub adds a number of mailer headers, so you should be able to define filters based on these, to filter things from separate projects or lists into different folders/labels.

If your classroom notifications come from a specific organization you can filter them using <your-organization-name>.github.com

In gmail, you can type list:<your-organization-name>.github.com in the search box, and then click the little gray triangle immediately to the left of the blue search button:

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That gives you a pre-filled filter configuration, and there’s a link at the bottom right that says “create filter with this search”. Click that and tell it which label to send these to.

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Another thing you can do is turn off the “automatically watch new repository” setting in the https://github.com/settings/notifications page on Github.

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Then you’ll still get notifications for repositories you watch, but you won’t automatically get notifications for every single new repository created in any organization that you are a member of.

(Philip B. Stark) #5

Thank you! That’s just what I needed.

Best wishes,
Philip