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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd love a weekly or twice weekly email with all the assignments and due dates so we can keep on tope of it.  The  more the better.[/quote]

Last year, I experimented with this. I sent a Sunday night announcement in Canvas that previewed the week and a Friday afternoon wrap up of what we actually did. Almost no one looked at it the first three weeks. However, I got about 70 emails asking me things that those announcements answered. In weeks 4-9, I stopped the Sunday night preview and just did the Friday wrap up. No one looked at them. Countless emails asking about due dates and deadlines.

I didn’t do these weekly announcements the rest of the year. They were time consuming to write and parents couldn’t be bothered to read them.[/quote]

Canvas is not the best way to distribute.  I have twins and no matter how much I tweak the notifications, I got dozens of messages from Canvas.  Any time a teacher touched one of my children's records,  got a notification email from Canvas.  And the messages don't say which student, so when you have twins, unless your children have completely different teachers and you know which teacher each one has, you can't tell which child it is.  I got notices when they assigned a project, when they changed some element of the assignment, when they graded the assignment.  I would get at least a dozen messages every time a teacher worked in Canvas.  I started pushing notifications to a folder and only checked once a week or so.  But many messages got drowned out by the terrible notification system.

So, emails are helpful, but Canvas is not.[/quote]

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