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...

[MatthewKing]

I agree, this defeats the purpose of creating the announcements far in advance since now students will see that I was either planning way ahead making the posts months in advance or generally being nit-picky with having them publish at a specific time. Especially since students only see the most recent "edit" (i.e., the delayed posting), they may see the announcement was created months ago, I may have rephrased things many times, but they only see the original creation date and the release date. Now I feel like I have to be at the computer, ready to publish them at exactly the right time every time, or at least consistently creating them around the same time the night before they go live. It really adds a lot of pressure to my workflow. Not a fan at all. Seems to me like it should be a quick fix for Canvas to revert this particular setting, or at least make it optional. 

[SuzieW]

I agree and have heard from several faculty who are not happy about initial posting and edited dates being visible to students. Students to not need to see the date an announcement was "created".

[smasongarrison]

This issue is major problem! Please fix it, showing edited dates and initial dates defeat the purpose of scheduling announcements in advance.

[TamasBalogh · Accepted solution]

Hi @KM1543 and all,

There is another thread on this issue where I commented that we fixed the issue and it will be included in the next beta deploy and the production deploy after that. You can see more information in my reply on the other thread or in the deploy notes which will be published on October 11th.