[Calendar] Parents booking appointments (Observers using the calendar scheduler)

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas LMS

At my school, parents are observers.

We're trying out different systems for parents evenings, including the Canvas scheduler.  

If parents could sign their children up for appointments for parents evenings, that would be a really useful feature.

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Naomi
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TeresaTroyer
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It would be great if observers were allowed to sign up for appointment times designated by the instructor. This could work well for instructors who schedule office hours for parents and for conferences and other events where parent attendance is requested.

KristinL
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KristinL
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This feature is available in Beta. For more information, please read through the

Canvas Release Notes (2024-02-17) 

How do I access the Canvas beta environment as an instructor?

petern
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This is brilliant.  We're already using appointment groups for booking appointments, so having observers be able to do this will be game changing!  Thank you.  Any idea when this might move to production?  

KristinL
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Status changed to: Completed
Comments from Instructure

 

For more information, please read through the Canvas Release Notes (2024-02-17)