I'd love to see a feature that allows admins to make mass calendar updates for all users to include Day of the Week (we work on a six-day cycle), Holidays, In-Service Days, Snow Days, etc.
This would be great! We're currently considering making a university-wide "course" with everyone in it for this exact purpose.
It would make a lot more sense for there to be an option, in the admin account, to set key institutional dates which are then visible in all users' calendars.
I was looking for a simple way to add a special event to multiple courses, but stumbling across this conversation, sounds like there isn't a way to do that. It would obviously be hugely beneficial to add this functionality. Special events, gatherings, holidays, etc.
I agree this would be a great feature! I think it would be important to allow it to be fed via rss or some other automated process for ease of updating and keeping things in sync.
An idea for: Canvas instance calendar or school-wide calendar!
It would be convenient to have a school-wide calendar, created at the admin level for editing-protection purposes, that contains holidays, school-breaks, teacher in-service days, minimum days, and other general and or local events that may pertain to all students across all courses for the entire school year. This main calendar would "trickle down" to all courses when a new course is copied or created. All Canvas users could be able to view this calendar, where they can turn it on or off, depending on their preference. Linking to an external calendar doesn't allow for users to see both the main school calendar overlaid on their Canvas course calendar.
Lastly, having this school-wide or instance-wide main calendar would save teachers time in recording dates/events; it will let them focus more on their individual course dates/events, and most importantly, to ensure there or no scheduling conflicts!
Did NOT see the previous posts about this idea! Good to know I'm not alone. Kinda sad that this was brought up SIX YEARS AGO, and still hasn't happened. I would think that in a post-Covid education realm, Canvas would be in use 10 times more than before, and the need for this would be greater. I'm not a technician/programmer, but it seems like something that could easily be done that would help so many users!! Hopefully, this can gain momentum again and this feature could get added to an already great LMS!
