Edward,

It seems to check the capability 'tool/inspire:listinsights' when sending messages. This is set to Allow for the default Teacher, non-editing teacher and Manager roles. 

So leave it unset for that custom role should be enough to stop the messages. If a person has multiple conflicting roles, you may have to set it to Prevent or even Prohibit, but just unsetting it should be enough for a single system level role.

Randy

I agree that this functionality requires more thought. Right now we have one capability that can be assigned -- or blocked-- per context. Anyone with that capability in a context will get all insights for that context.

What would be a better way of handling the recipients of insights? In general, I am hoping we can make the generation and tracking of insights more sophisticated. See MDL-62523 for the current proposal.

We also upgraded and had a lot of teachers thinking this was spam or a fishing email. Since the 'insights' wasn't very useful for us I turned it off. This might be overkill, but here are all the steps I took.

- Edited file /analytics/classes/local/target/base.php commented out line 214 that sent the email

- Set permissions for all roles to 'prohibit' for 'moodle/analytics:listinsights'

- To turn off for a specific user: go to user profile > Preferences > Notification preferences > turn off insights

- Turned off scheduled tasks: Admin Settings > Server > Scheduled Tasks > disabled both 'Predict Models' and ' Train Models'

- Disable under: Admin Settings > Analytics > Analytic Models > Actions > Disable (for both)

Another issue was the email was set to come from the Site admin, so it had my name instead of the normal 'Noreply' like other emails. That caused additional confusion. After doing the above we aren't getting those emails anymore.