[Blueprint Courses] Assignment Due dates based off course Start date

[JosephBelanger]

Working in Higher Ed means that a lot of the same course content is used session after session.

When copying a course blueprint, there is a setting called "Adjust events and due dates > Shift dates".  This setting does not seem to work well if the class skips a session and the blueprint is not used all the time.  When the course is copied, the event dates and due dates do not adjust correctly.

For "assignments" - I'd like to suggest an additional date setting that allows us to choose a specific number of Weeks/days after the course "Start Date" that an assignment will be due or an Event will be run.

Example:

Actual course start date is Feb 28, 2022
Course opens up to students 2 weeks prior to complete any Pre Assignments
Pre Assignments are due at 11:59pm on Feb 27th (The Sunday before Week 1 starts)
Any Pre Assignments for week 1 are also due on Feb 27th at 11:59pm
Homework for week 1 is due the following Sunday at 11:59pm
The following weeks are exactly the same format to week 1 due dates.

Since each due date is a specific amount of days before/after the course start date, the blueprint would always have the correct dates because it would be a calculation of Start date + number of days until due and at what hour/minute.

[straussi]

We do this with our Snapshot Generator integration, but it would be great to be available as part of the default copy process or API.

[grichards]

Yes!  This feature would be tremendous!  We run upwards of 70 short courses that have the same structure - courses starts on X date, assignments are due on X+7, x+14, x+18, etc.  The ability to set that up in the blueprint would be an incredible timesaver.