Using the Canvas Calendar for student societies

[PaulBiggs]

Hi there,

Fairly new with Canvas at my University in the UK. We have had some requests from out Student Union and they would like to use the Canvas Calendar independently of a Course or Organisation space. From looking online it looks like this isn't possible. It has to be related to a specific course area. Does anyone have any examples or case studies where they have set up areas? For example, student societies etc...I would be keen to get an idea of what is possible. I am guessing whatever the setup there will be a degree of admin involved in keeping everything up to date. 

Thanks, Paul. 

[lsorroche]

Hello @PaulBiggs It's an interesting request. The only way I think this could work for you is to create a course for the Students' Union and then use its calendar. This would require that all students who need to use this calendar be enrolled in that course.

[PaulBiggs]

Thanks for the reply @lsorroche really helpful. Do you get many requests to use Canvas outside of the standard course set up? Our students are quite keen to use Canvas for more than just learning, I think they like the idea of having a student community on there. Which is great, it just raises questions around the best way of setting it up. I think whatever we do, we will feed back to Instructure, to see if it could be made more flexible. 

[lsorroche]

Hi @PaulBiggs ,

At our institution, I haven't heard of any requests to use the calendar outside of a course. However, I think this would be an excellent update for the calendar tool.

By the way, you've raised an interesting point: providing students with tools and spaces to build their own community within the virtual Canvas environment.

[PaulBiggs]

Great, thanks @lsorroche good to know that it will help the wider Canvas community and there's wider interest in using the calendar in different ways. Thanks for your reply.