[ARCHIVED] Terms and Sub-accounts

[tsowers]

We are in our first year of using Canvas and am just now establishing policy for setting out term dates.  Can someone tell me if there is any way to set different term dates for one particular sub-account?  In my case, I have some doctoral courses that need different term dates than the other schools.  I like the idea of locking a course down to instructors and TA's shortly after grades are due but the doctoral courses would require me to extend teacher access for an additional 2-3 months.  It would be much cleaner if I could just set separate doctoral sub-account term (instructor access) dates.  Thanks for any insights any of you wise people can provide.

[canvas_admin]

 @tsowers ​,  I don't see terms as being able to be set at the sub-account level, but have you thought about creating a separate term specifically for your doctoral courses?   For example, you could have a "Summer 2016" term for all of your regular courses with their own access dates and a "Summer 2016 - Doctoral" for your courses that need separate access dates.    It's not ideal and perhaps too clunky, but that's one thought I've had.

[tsowers]

Good idea.  Thanks Mark.

[jolaine]

Hi Mark - Thanks for that thought.  For Thomas, that could be a good work-around.  But our institution is huge and most of our professional schools have terms that vary from the regular undergraduate terms.  We would have dozens of terms and have to find some way to differentiate so our users wouldn't be completely overwhelmed.  To allow sub-accounts to set terms for their college would be a tremendous help.  It would also help in allowing our training programs to set year-long terms, etc.

[John_Lowe]

At Baylor, we solve this problem by not setting term dates at all.  Instead we set section dates for each course based on the individual course's start and end dates in our SIS.  So any course or group of courses that has different dates in SIS get different dates in Canvas.

[Robbie_Grant]

 @tsowers ,

We are giving the Canvas Admins area a little bit of love (especially questions that are really, really old) and just want to check in with you.  This will also bring this question new attention. 

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Robbie