Moodle notification information overload for students

Moodle generates a lot of notifications. 

At the end of the first week one multiple students have high notification counts. 

The smallest value I saw was 13 notifications. Above is another in the forties, not unusual.

The largest I saw was 64 notifications. A student is highly likely to miss an important notification in the flurry of notifications. While there is a notifications preferences screen, students will not know which notifications can be safely turned off.

A deeper dive into the nature of the notification explosion indicates that some courses had all assignments open on day one. I suspect this might be a result of not specifying an opening/available from date. If I am correct, then the use of release dates for activities in Moodle is clearly important. 


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