How do you keep up with all the school app notifications?

What the numbers show

Counted from the threads quoted below. How we count

• The most recent one is from October 2026.
• This comes up 15.5× more often in r/Teachers than across the site as a whole.

What people tried

Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.

1. 1
   Opting out of every single notification that is not mandatory
2. 2
   Checking everything manually once a day instead of keeping notifications enabled
3. 3
   Muting or silencing school apps and notifications
4. 4
   Relying instead on online gradebooks, face-to-face talks, or direct phone calls
5. 5
   Switching between multiple apps or accounts across different districts

In their words

Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.