Account level calendar (and sub-account level calendar)

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

Account level and sub-account level calendar use cases:

  1. Holiday dates
  2. Open days
  3. Special events
  4. Competitions

All users within that account or sub-account would see these calendar events.

98 Comments
cms_hickss
Community Contributor

My guess. This Idea would have to be reopened and the voting process started again.

palmarinich
Community Contributor

+1 for this Idea. Frankly, I'm amazed that a fairly simple and straightforward idea, clearly in demand by many in the Canvas Community (142 votes!), is so readily dismissed. 

And, as was pointed out, Peyton's response seems to have completely misunderstood the request.  Even using an external calendar (Google, Outlook, etc.), there is still no way to pull that calendar IN to Canvas.

Please review the initial request and comments, and reconsider!

jnevarez2
Community Member

I hope this is still on the radar of the Canvas programmers, and if not, I would like to know how to re-open this. It seems this is a tool that would be valuable to many Canvas institutions and users. We have received multiple requests at our institution alone, and having the ability to import a calendar to Canvas or even to set global dates would benefit us greatly.

Renee_Carney
Community Team
Community Team
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heidiadams
Community Explorer

In our district, we have many teachers from our 22 buildings asking for this as a feature- a building-wide calendar in Canvas. 

ryan_corris
Community Contributor

It would be very beneficial to be able to somehow create calendar events at the account and sub account levels that would show upon all users' calendars that are a part of those accounts/sub accounts.  These would be common events for everyone such as beginning and end of semesters and grading periods, school holidays, conferences, board meetings, sporting events, etc.

 

These universal calendar events should not be added to each course, otherwise they would show up on the calendar for every course where the user participates.  This would place many repeated events on the calendar unnecessarily.  Instead, I see this being an option in the box where users can filter the courses they see on their calendar.  Maybe at the top of the list under the user's personal calendar, have an option for Universal Calendars.  When this option is selected, Universal events for all accounts/sub accounts for that user will show on the calendar. Universal events could then be easily turned on and off in the calendar view without affecting other course calendars.

 

This could save a great deal of time for teachers and admins who are adding common district/building/university events for all of their courses.

heidiadams
Community Explorer

 @ryan_corris ‌ this is something that would be something that would help the administrators really buy into Canvas! 

ryan_corris
Community Contributor

heidiadams‌ I agree!  This would help admins, teachers, and students.

BethCrook
Community Contributor

This is a fantastic idea petern Nice Work

Stef_retired
Instructure Alumni
Instructure Alumni

To all the intrepid admins in this discussion: I've never tried this, but I wonder if anyone has used the REST API solution described by andersonj  at InstructureCon 2013 to populate all published courses with a global event: Adventures with the Canvas REST API (YouTube, 29:14--the part about putting an event on all published courses is at around the 16-minute mark)? Success? Challenges?