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Problem statement: Right now, when I create a new event under the account calendar there is no indicator to draw users to it nor is there any notification sent of a new account calendar event. My stud...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: Within a crosslisted course, if there are both active AND concluded enrollments for a user, the Canvas Calendar will show events scheduled for both enrollments. The user will also s...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: The Calendar is a great way to change the due date for an assignment. With drop and drag ease, moving the assignment on the calendar causes the due date to be updated. However, the ...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: *Every Time* I want to create a synchronized/online conference and put it on the student's' schedule, I have to create the whole thing? That's 30 times in a 2x a week A15 class. Pr...

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Problem statement: Events created on an Account Calendar show up on the calendar itself but do not appear on the dashboard under "Coming Up". We would like to have important dates, like Registration D...

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Problem statement: If students have 6 core courses, when they download/ view the iCal calendars everything is just appearing as a calendar item and unless they go and look (i.e click) at each one in d...

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Problem statement: Right now, students can sign up for an appointment time slot 5 minutes before the time slot, but the teacher may not have prepared to be at the appointment if they checked even 10 m...

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Problem statement: Currently there is an API to allow integrations and tool to set the account calendar to display to a user, however when using this API you have to supply the complete set of account...

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Problem statement: Calendars can be very difficult to organize with a large group of classes. This is especially true for staff or parents that observe multiple accounts. Proposed solution: Several s...

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Problem statement: Color coding of the calendar is only by course - Need an option to color code by assignment group (class work, quiz, test, project, etc.) Proposed solution: Is it possible to color...

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Problem statement: Now that we do have Account Calendars; they aren't terribly useful without the feature to establish a feed, or at least import, existing departmental and institutional calendars. Ot...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When accessing the Canvas Calendar for a Course, there if the short and long name are the same, but the Term is different it is not clear which calendar you are referencing as it do...

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Problem statement: For Account Calendars to be of use, we need the ability to block off time across multiple days. Fall, winter, & spring breaks, etc. Proposed solution: Add the ability to block off ...

Community Contributor Canvas Ideas
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Problem statement: When creating a calendar even there is no way to set the location for each section. Only one global location for all sections. i.e. if multiple sections occur in different rooms, th...

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Problem statement: Several times per term, it would be useful to schedule an appointment with someone who is not currently in one of my classes, yet for whom an office appointment would be the obvious...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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It would be nice to be able to change the to-do dates like we can with assignment dates.  this would help when faculty copy a course to a new shell. they can adjust all the assignment dates but many t...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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Using the Canvas for Elementary view, students can see if something is due today both on the Subject cards and in the Schedule tab.  Feature request is to make the Schedule tab operational for teacher...

Community Explorer Canvas Ideas
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I am an instructor. I have added the Canvas Calendar feed to my Outlook Calendar and it is now included under "Other Calendars". The appointments in the Canvas Calendar are booked by students using th...

Community Member Canvas Ideas
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I would like the scheduler to sync with my outlook calendar to prevent students from double booking appointments with my advisees using EAB Navigate to schedule appointments.  EAB Navigate currently s...

Community Participant Canvas Ideas
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I use the canvas scheduler to arrange 1-1 student appointments. I would like to request the addition of a scheduling condition which can be set according to instructor preferences e.g. students cannot...

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