Chapter 7

Using the Canvas Calendar

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Discovering the Canvas Calendar

Bullet Adding events and adjusting Calendar views

Bullet Merging the Calendar with other calendar apps

Bullet Leveraging life skills with the Calendar

We get it. You’ve got calendars, upon calendars, upon calendars. You have an online calendar through your institution, a planner on your desk, the calendar on your smartphone, a refrigerator calendar at home, and maybe even a day-to-day tear-away calendar with cute little pictures of kittens and quotes that say things like “Hang in there!” and “The day will be purrfect!”

Adding yet another calendar to the list may feel a bit overwhelming, but the Calendar in Canvas LMS is more than just a place to remind you (and students) when items are due. It can be your go-to tool for maintaining a timeline for the smallest of projects to organizing information as vast as the entire roadmap of the course that year.

Throughout this chapter, you discover the fundamentals of how to use the Canvas Calendar as well as how the Calendar integrates seamlessly into other tools and features ...

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