Introduction

The Calendar is a powerful tool that lets you and your students keep track of all course-related assignments, tasks and events in one location. Your assignments, discussions and quizzes will automatically appear in the calendar as long as they are associated with a due date; you can even create assignments and add events from within the calendar tool. Assignment dates can be adjusted with drop and drag navigation. The Calendar tool is integrated with the Syllabus and Assignments.

Get to know the Canvas calendar

The Calendar is a global feature, meaning that your students can see all of their assignments and events from all courses in one place. If the Calendar becomes too crowded, it can be filtered by selecting or deselecting courses.

The Canvas calendar automatically displays any due dates you set for your course assignments, quizzes, or discussions, but you can also use the calendar to manually create events and milestones throughout your course. You'll learn more about creating assignments and quizzes with specific due dates in Module 5, but for now, use the resources below to familiarize yourself with the features and options available in the calendar.

Read or watch a brief introduction to the calendar and its purpose:

What is the calendar?

Calendar Overview (5 min)

Learn how to view and filter the items in the Calendar with the following tutorial:

How do I use the calendar?

Create calendar events in your course

Follow the steps in this tutorial to practice adding a new event to your course calendar:

How do I add an event to the course calendar?

Use the Scheduler

Access the scheduler tool in the top right corner of the calendar page. This tool lets you set up "appointment groups" that students (or student groups) can sign up for. For example, you could use the scheduler to have students sign up for your office hours, to schedule presentation times, or to hold other types of appointments.

Follow the steps in this tutorial to create an appointment group:

How do I create an appointment group in the Scheduler?

Click the Next ▶ button in the lower right to continue