Delayed Announcements Showing Created Date

[KM1543]

I just talked to Canvas about the issue of students seeing two timestamps in a delayed course announcement. The first being the stamp when the announcement was created, and the second "Edited" timestamp showing when the announcement was released.

Canvas Support says that with this new version there is no way to hide the first date, aka. the "created" date from the students. This change does away with the entire point of delaying the announcement in the first place, since students can see when the announcement was created. I am not sure why the coders decided to code an announcement release as an edited action, rather than part of the original action of creating an announcement, and Canvas Support agreed that it was an odd choice on their part.

Canvas Support suggested that we encourage as many teachers as possible to use this platform to request this to change in future updates.

[Chris_Hofer]

@KM1543 ...

Thank you for posting this.  Since this sounds more like a request to change functionality of Canvas, you'd want to submit this in the Ideas and Themes space here in the Community.  Here are some Guides for you to look though on how to submit a new Idea:

Instructure Community Guide - Instructure Community (canvaslms.com)

(See the Ideas and Themes section in the above link.)

Hope this helps!!!

[KM1543]

Hi Chris,

Yes, I have submitted it in the Ideas and Themes space, but wanted to also post about the issue here in case other teachers are running into this situation and are looking for answers. Thank you for your response!

[arbobk]

Hi @KM1543 , I noticed you did post in the thread earlier https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Question-Forum/Announcements-showing-wrong-date-and-time-w...

Just wanted to note it down as this has been an issue since Canvas most recent updates. Hoping for a fix soon...