Let us schedule a Publish Date / Time for Content Pages

[aungaro]

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

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Please allow us the ability to set a specific date and/or time for content pages to be published ahead of time.

It would be nice to be able to schedule those times in advance. There are times I don't want to publish something for students to see until after class and that requires remembering to go back and publish. Forgetting to do so only then creates chaos.  It'd be nice to just set those times once the page is designed and avoid those circumstances.

[ichecaga]

@danielle, how do you publish a file at a certain time? I can see the availability feature for quizzes and homework, but not for files (let alone pages). Ok, I see now in the publish icon it gives you that possibility, so just adding here to others: pages would be very useful to have published only after a certain date. 

[anantj18]

Yes, please add this

[montgomery1]

I would also like to be able to schedule a separate release date for pages within a module. Has there been any progress on this request?

[davidmurphy]

completely agree with this feature request.

[Heather_EdTech]

I completely agree. We moved all of our 6-12 classrooms from Google Classroom to Canvas because of the pandemic and really, we'll be here to stay for the long haul most likely. 

One feature that teachers heavily relied on was the ability to schedule everything. In this transition to Canvas, they've mentioned the wish for this feature of scheduling Canvas Pages. They would find it very helpful. Every minute of an educator's time saved is important! 

[begneiss]

I would like to be able to set pages to publish on a certain date and unpublish on a certain date.

I was using assignments for this but it only turns off the submission link not viewability so I have to go into the slides I published in the assignment and turn them off there.  I can make it an assignment that doesn't take submissions but then the student have to manually clear from to do list and I am trying to get them never to do that.

[rv2]

Canvas, please implement this request. This is absolutely basic functionality for an LMS (much more so than any of the ideas listed as "in development" at the time of writing). Its absence hampers the ability of teachers to schedule their courses. It is unbelievable this thread has been open since 2016 and has never been taken seriously.

[rjf227]

I wish this feature would be released instead of having to use clunky workarounds because it hasn't been implemented.

[JimFitch]

Yes, please add a publish date/time. Can't really believe we are left to beg for this.

[mariofiorini]

just adding my support to the publish date/time thread. First time Canvas user at University, coming from Blackboard. I miss the ability to HIDE pages, files, modules, etc. until a certain date tremendously. The LOCK feature is way worse since the students can still see what's inside a module or see the link to a file.