[ARCHIVED] Delayed Posting of Calendar Event: Is It Possible in Canvas?

[steinert]

I'd like to populate the Canvas Calendar for my course at the beginning of each week and then make the Events visible to student at the beginning of each day, but it seems Events can only be posted immediately. Aside from creating Events in a separate document and copying and pasting each morning, is there a way to delay the post?

[Bobby2 · Accepted solution]

Hi  @steinert  Welcome to the Canvas Community.

Whenever you set up anything eg. assignment, discussion, quiz, page, module etc you have the option of setting the date it will become live to your students. 

For example:

Here are some handy Calendar guides too

• How do I use the Calendar as an instructor?
• How do I filter the Calendar view by course as an instructor?
• How do I add an event to a course calendar?
• How do I add and duplicate an event in the Calendar as an instructor?
• How do I add an event to my calendar as an instructor?
• How do I add an assignment from the Calendar?
• How do I edit an event or assignment in the Calendar?
• How do I set a different event date for each section in a course calendar?
• How do I view the Calendar iCal feed to subscribe to an external calendar as an instructor?
• How do I subscribe to the Calendar feed using Google Calendar as an instructor?
• How do I subscribe to the Calendar feed using Outlook as an instructor?
• How do I add a Scheduler appointment group in a course calendar?
• How do I view or edit a Scheduler appointment group in a course calendar?
• How do I remove students from a Scheduler appointment in a course calendar?

Sing out if you need a hand. 

[steinert]

The issue is that I was hoping to use my Calendar as an agenda for that week's work, with daily Calendar links to assignments and assessments as a way to chunk the weekly workload now that we are online full time. That takes some time to set up, and I didn't want things to go live until a particular (inconvenient for me) time each week. Because Calendar Events post immediately, I can't do this.

My work around was to have a link to an Announcement, and nothing more, in each day's Calendar Event. I can then set up the Announcements and delay their availability to students. It would just be nice to do this directly in the Calendar Events (complete them in Canvas but have them post later).