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If the Rich Content Editor would be available in the Calendar Scheduler then, using the Microsoft Teams LTI app I would be able to embed a link to a Teams meeting that will be seen by only the student...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Our faculty use the Canvas Calendar Appointment Group tool, which allows students to sign up for appointments with faculty. The tool allows faculty to schedule meetings based on dates and time ranges ...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I would appreciate it so much if Canvas could find a way for teachers to "lock" student appointments in the calendar, forcing the student to have a conversation with the teacher in order to change the...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I would like to be able to move an entire day's events to another day in bulk or several at a time. Right now, I have to move each event individually. Highlighting the events to move (all or some or c...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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We would like for the calendar events to have the ability to provide pop-up reminders on the device being used when an event is about to begin or when an assignment is due.  As more students are movin...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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This idea has been developed and is On Canvas Beta •  How do I access the Canvas beta environment? For more information, please read through the Canvas Release Notes (2023-10-21)  I created a series ...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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Hi, we want to add a link to all places that we import to the calendar to give student a map location for the place field in the calendar object. It is not very easy when the field does not support HT...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Our instructors would like to be able to edit appointments in the scheduler instead of having to delete and recreate them.  If a student has already signed up for an appointment and it has been modifi...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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It is a very normal function of calendaring to be able to add events that span multiple days. Please add the ability to have mulit day events in canvas. Instead of just having a start and end time giv...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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When you have an event that applies to multiple classes it would be Great to enter the event once and have it post to multiple course calendars. What I would like is a way to enter the same assignmen...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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A good instructional design practice is to have a predictable module structure for students to follow throughout a course. Many courses use the calendar to clearly communicate deadlines to students, a...

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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I should be able to use the scheduler to set up appointment slots for office hours for one week and then have an option for Canvas to automatically create the same schedule on subsequent weeks.

Community Novice Canvas Ideas
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I am aware that we can export our canvas calendar feed to another calendar but it would be nice to import calendar feeds too.   For example, I would like to be able to import my institution's academic...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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