diff --git a/.github/gha-triggers.yml b/.github/gha-triggers.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b969e2a9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/gha-triggers.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,153 @@
+check-quizzes.yml:
+  status: on
+  on-trigger:
+    workflow_dispatch:
+      pull_request:
+        branches: [ main, staging ]
+        paths:
+          - 'quizzes/*'
+  off-trigger:
+    workflow_dispatch:
+delete-preview.yml:
+  status: on
+  on-trigger:
+    pull_request:
+      types: [closed]
+  off-trigger:
+    workflow_dispatch:
+  dependent_on: render-preview.yml
+docker-build-test.yml:
+  status: on
+  on-trigger:
+    release:
+      types:
+        - created
+    pull_request:
+      branches: [ main, staging ]
+      paths: [ docker/Dockerfile, docker/github_package_list.tsv ]
+    workflow_dispatch:
+      inputs:
+        dockerhubpush:
+          description: 'Push to Dockerhub?'
+          required: true
+          default: 'false'
+  off-trigger:
+    workflow_dispatch:
+      inputs:
+        dockerhubpush:
+          description: 'Push to Dockerhub?'
+          required: true
+          default: 'false'
+release-notes.yml:
+  status: on
+  on-trigger:
+    pull_request:
+      branches: [ main, staging ]
+      types: [ opened ]
+  off-trigger:
+render-bookdown.yml:
+  status: on
+  on-trigger:
+    workflow_dispatch:
+    push:
+      branches: [ main, staging ]
+      paths:
+        - '**.Rmd'
+        - assets/*
+  off-trigger:
+    workflow_dispatch:
+render-coursera.yml:
+  status: on
+  on-trigger:
+      workflow_dispatch:
+      workflow_run:
+        workflows: [ "Render Bookdown" ]
+        branches: [ main, staging ]
+        types:
+          - completed
+  off-trigger:
+    workflow_dispatch:
+  dependent_on: render-bookdown.yml
+render-leanpub.yml:
+  status: on
+  on-trigger:
+    workflow_dispatch:
+    workflow_run:
+      workflows: [ "Render Coursera" ]
+      branches: [ main, staging ]
+      types:
+        - completed
+  off-trigger:
+    workflow_dispatch:
+  dependent_on: render-coursera.yml
+render-preview.yml:
+  status: on
+  on-trigger:
+    pull_request:
+      branches: [ main, staging ]
+  off-trigger:
+    workflow_dispatch:
+send-updates.yml:
+  status: on
+  on-trigger:
+    release:
+      types:
+      - published
+    workflow_dispatch:
+      inputs:
+        prtag:
+          description: 'Tag to use?'
+          required: true
+          default: 'null'
+  off-trigger:
+    workflow_dispatch:
+      inputs:
+        prtag:
+          description: 'Tag to use?'
+          required: true
+          default: 'null'
+starting-course.yml:
+  status: on
+  on-trigger:
+    push:
+      branches: [ main, staging ]
+    workflow_dispatch:
+  off-trigger:
+    workflow_dispatch:
+style-and-sp-check.yml:
+  status: on
+  on-trigger:
+    pull_request:
+      branches: [ main, staging ]
+  off-trigger:
+    workflow_dispatch:
+test-send-updates.yml:
+  status: on
+  on-trigger:
+  off-trigger:
+    workflow_dispatch:
+      inputs:
+        repo:
+          description: 'What repo to test on e.g. jhudsl/OTTR_Template_Test'
+          required: true
+          default: 'jhudsl/OTTR_Template_Test'
+transfer-rendered-files.yml:
+  status: on
+  on-trigger:
+    workflow_dispatch:
+    workflow_run:
+      workflows: [ "Render Bookdown" ]
+      branches: [ main, staging ]
+      types:
+        - completed
+  off-trigger:
+    workflow_dispatch:
+  dependent_on: render-bookdown.yml
+url-checker.yml:
+  status: on
+  on-trigger:
+    workflow_dispatch:
+    pull_request:
+      branches: [ main, staging ]
+  off-trigger:
+    workflow_dispatch:
diff --git a/.github/on-triggers.rds b/.github/on-triggers.rds
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index 00000000..6b7bf668
Binary files /dev/null and b/.github/on-triggers.rds differ
diff --git a/.github/sync.yml b/.github/sync.yml
index 1c00f763..e3c7c226 100755
--- a/.github/sync.yml
+++ b/.github/sync.yml
@@ -70,3 +70,25 @@ group:
       dest: scripts/spell-check.R
     repos: |
       jhudsl/OTTR_Template_Website
+
+  repos: |
+    jhudsl/OTTR_Template_Website
+  - source: .github/workflows/style-and-sp-check.yml
+    dest: .github/workflows/style-and-sp-check.yml
+  - source: .github/workflows/url-checker.yml
+    dest: .github/workflows/url-checker.yml
+  - source: scripts/spell-check.R
+    dest: scripts/spell-check.R
+###### TO ADD NEW REPOSITORY USE THIS FORMAT; Feel free to add/drop files that
+# you specifically would like synced (or not).
+#
+#  # Repositories to receive changes
+#  repos: |
+#    org/repo_name
+#  # Files which should be updated
+#  - source: .github/workflows/
+  #   dest: .github/workflows/
+  # - source: scripts/
+  #   dest: scripts/
+  # - source: docker/
+  #   dest: docker/
diff --git a/.github/workflows/manage-gha.yml b/.github/workflows/manage-gha.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d36c6441
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/manage-gha.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+# Candace Savonen Feb 2022
+
+name: Update Github Actions Switches
+
+on:
+  push:
+    paths:
+      - 'config_automation.yml'
+
+jobs:
+  update-triggers:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    container:
+      image: jhudsl/course_template
+
+    steps:
+      - name: checkout repo
+        uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - name: Login as jhudsl-robot
+        run: |
+          git config --local user.email "itcrtrainingnetwork@gmail.com"
+          git config --local user.name "jhudsl-robot"
+
+      - name: Run GHA switches script
+        run: Rscript --vanilla scripts/employ-gha-switches.R
+
+      - name: Commit updated workflows to current branch
+        id: commit_it
+        run: |
+          branch_name=$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)
+          git add .github/workflows --force
+          git commit -m 'Update GHA switches' || echo "No changes to commit"
+          git push origin || echo "No changes to commit"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/transfer-rendered-files.yml b/.github/workflows/transfer-rendered-files.yml
index b70c47ce..61bca65c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/transfer-rendered-files.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/transfer-rendered-files.yml
@@ -11,9 +11,8 @@ name: Bookdown to Leanpub repo copy over
 #---TRIGGER-START---#
 on:
   workflow_dispatch:
-  # Only run after the render finishes running
   workflow_run:
-    workflows: [ "Render Bookdown and Coursera" ]
+    workflows: [ "Render Bookdown" ]
     branches: [ main, staging ]
     types:
       - completed
diff --git a/config_automation.yml b/config_automation.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1a01216a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config_automation.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+# PR Checks
+check-quizzes: yes
+url-checker: yes
+render-preview: yes
+style-and-sp-check: yes
+
+# Rendering
+render-bookdown: yes
+render-leanpub: yes
+render-coursera: yes
+
+# Docker specific
+docker-build-test: yes
diff --git a/scripts/employ-gha-switches.R b/scripts/employ-gha-switches.R
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3b7169f8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/employ-gha-switches.R
@@ -0,0 +1,125 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env Rscript
+
+library(magrittr)
+
+option_list <- list(
+  optparse::make_option(
+    c("--overwrite"),
+    action = "store_true",
+    default = FALSE,
+    help = "TRUE or FALSE overwrite the trigger no matter what",
+  )
+)
+
+# Read the arguments passed
+opt_parser <- optparse::OptionParser(option_list = option_list)
+opt <- optparse::parse_args(opt_parser)
+
+
+# Find .git root directory
+root_dir <- rprojroot::find_root(rprojroot::has_dir(".github"))
+
+######## Load in triggers
+# Each github action has its own on and off trigger versions which are stored
+# in this file -- if triggers need to be altered, they must be altered in this file to take effect
+trigger_config <- yaml::yaml.load_file(file.path(root_dir, ".github", "gha-triggers.yml"))
+
+######## Get the github actions file paths
+# Get github actions directory
+github_actions_dir <- file.path(root_dir, ".github", "workflows")
+
+# Get list of github actions files
+github_actions_files <- list.files(github_actions_dir,
+  pattern = "\\.yml$",
+  full.names = TRUE
+)
+
+######## Set up dataframe with information about the GHA 
+gha_df <- data.frame(gha_files = names(trigger_config))
+
+# Read in the configuration file with the specs
+config_df <- 
+  yaml::read_yaml(file.path(root_dir, "config_automation.yml")) %>%
+  data.frame() %>%
+  t() %>%
+  data.frame() %>%
+  tibble::rownames_to_column("gha_files") %>%
+  dplyr::rename(new_status = '.') %>% 
+  dplyr::mutate(gha_files = paste0(gsub("\\.", "-", gha_files), ".yml"))
+
+# Extract the "dependent on" information
+dependent_on_df <- data.frame(dependent_on = unlist(trigger_config)[grep("dependent_on", names(unlist(trigger_config)))], 
+                           gha_files = gsub("\\.dependent_on$", "", grep("dependent_on", names(unlist(trigger_config)), value = TRUE)))
+
+# For GHA dependent on other ones, switch their status based on what the new status is
+dependent_on_df$recoded_status <- config_df$new_status[match(dependent_on_df$dependent_on, config_df$gha_files)]
+
+# Put it all together
+gha_df <- gha_df %>% 
+  dplyr::left_join(config_df) %>% 
+  dplyr::left_join(dependent_on_df) %>% 
+  dplyr::mutate(new_status = dplyr::case_when(
+    !is.na(recoded_status) ~ recoded_status, 
+    TRUE ~ new_status)
+  ) 
+
+config_gha <- function(gha_file) {
+
+  # Read in this GHA yaml
+  yaml_contents <- readLines(gha_file)
+
+  # Get info about this particular GHA
+  trigger_info <- trigger_config[[basename(gha_file)]]
+
+  # Extract what the status should be
+  new_status <- gha_df %>%
+    dplyr::filter(basename(gha_file) == gha_files) %>%
+    dplyr::pull("new_status")
+
+  # If status specified in the config_automation.yml continue
+  if (!is.na(new_status) && length(new_status) == 1) {
+
+    # If current status doesn't match specified status
+    # and it wasn't specified to overwrite anyway...
+    if ((new_status != trigger_info$status) || opt$overwrite) {
+
+      # Output message
+      message(paste("Switching trigger for", basename(gha_file), "to", new_status))
+
+      # Get trigger for whether this should be on or off
+      trigger <- ifelse(new_status, trigger_info[["on-trigger"]], trigger_info[["off-trigger"]])
+
+      # Make sure it has `on:` at the beginning
+      trigger$on <- trigger
+      trigger <- trigger[-1]
+      
+      # Temporarily write to yaml so we can read in as plain text 
+      yaml::write_yaml(trigger, "tmp-trigger.yml")
+
+      # Find out where this trigger is supposed to go
+      trigger_indices <- (grep("TRIGGER-START", yaml_contents) + 1):(grep("TRIGGER-END", yaml_contents) - 1)
+      
+      # Remove current trigger
+      yaml_contents <- yaml_contents[-trigger_indices]
+
+      # Set up new yaml trigger
+      trigger_text <-  gsub("\\'on\\':", "on:", readLines("tmp-trigger.yml"))
+      
+      # Put new trigger in
+      yaml_contents <- append(
+        yaml_contents, 
+        trigger_text,
+        after = trigger_indices[1] - 1
+      )
+
+      # Remove temporary file
+      file.remove("tmp-trigger.yml")
+      
+      # Write lines to file
+      writeLines(yaml_contents, gha_file)
+    }
+  }
+}
+
+# Read in all files
+all_gha <- lapply(github_actions_files, config_gha)