Using the Calendar as an Instructor
How the Calendar Works in Canvas
To view your calendar click Calendar in the global menu. The Calendar in Canvas makes it easy for instructors and students to keep track of upcoming assignments. All of your courses assignments and events will display on one calendar which makes it easy for you to view and update the calendar. Instructors can also setup scheduler appointments that students can sign up for on the calendar. Review the tabbed menu below for more tutorials.
Video Overview
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Important Notes
If you plan to use the scheduler for allowing students to sign-up for appointments, be sure to review the Student Calendar tutorial.
All graded assignments with due dates will display in the course calendar and students' To Do lists. Instructors can assign a date to Canvas pages and ungraded discussions. See How to Add Content to Student List View page for details.
Assignments and events dates can be updated by dragging the assignment or event to a new date in the calendar. Please note with assignments this only updates the due date and does NOT update the Available From and Until dates. Use the Design Tools multi-tool assignment due date modifier to adjust the due date and availability dates.
If you copy content from another course, please be aware the calendar events from that course will also copy over. Be sure to remove any calendar events that are not needed for the new course. You can see a list of events in the course from the syllabus page. See the Adding Your Syllabus page for details.
Canvas Guides
Note: These guides are maintained by the Canvas Documentation Team and are available on the Canvas Community site Links to an external site.. Some of the information in these guides may not apply to the Lake Land College instance of Canvas. If you have a question about a feature mentioned in these guides, please review Getting Help page for details on who to contact at Lake Land College.
- How do I use the Calendar as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I filter the Calendar view by course as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I add an event to a course calendar? Links to an external site.
- How do I duplicate an event in the Calendar as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I add an event to my calendar as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I add an assignment from the Calendar? Links to an external site.
- How do I edit an event or assignment in the Calendar? Links to an external site.
- How do I set a different event date for each section in a course calendar? Links to an external site.
- How do I view the Calendar iCal feed to subscribe to an external calendar as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I subscribe to the Calendar feed using Google Calendar as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I subscribe to the Calendar feed using Outlook as an instructor? Links to an external site.
- How do I add a Scheduler appointment group in a course calendar? Links to an external site.
- How do I view or edit a Scheduler appointment group in a course calendar? Links to an external site.
- How do I remove students from a Scheduler appointment in a course calendar? Links to an external site.