<!---HEADER START--> <img height="20px" src="https://i.imgur.com/c7hUeb5.jpeg"> ❌ **This issue is not open for contribution. Visit <a href="https://learningequality.org/contributing-to-our-open-code-base/" target="_blank">Contributing guidelines</a>** to learn about the contributing process and how to find suitable issues. <img height="20px" src="https://i.imgur.com/c7hUeb5.jpeg"> <!---HEADER END--> Currently content queue task polling can happen incredibly frequently, causing high volumes of requests to servers while users are on the page. We should tweak the task polling to reduce the polling rate to something more reasonable.