[Calendar] Copy or Duplicate a Event

[jthoms]

A good instructional design practice is to have a predictable module structure for students to follow throughout a course. Many courses use the calendar to clearly communicate deadlines to students, and must do so with consistent format.

Currently copying requires creating a calendar event, and copying content for each item. By adding a “copy” button, the effort to build a course will be greatly reduced. If this triggered a dialogue to state how many copies to make, it would be very simple to quickly build out a calendar structure.

Please help to flesh out this idea by discussing your particular use case in the comments.

[Renee_Carney]

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[kmcpher1]

It would be helpful to copy to other courses as well. Thanks!

[mbrown6]

I like this idea, but am a little unclear.  Is this to copy within a class (which, agreed, you could likely do a repeat), or amont different course calendars?  If it is the case to copy within a class, what if the repeat is not every Friday?  What if the event falls on different days depending on unit cycles or some other factor?  I agree that a copy button would be beneficial - to add the even ton a different date within a course would be marvelous.

Even more so, as an instructor with multiple science courses, I am working to share community events with all of the courses.  During the month of September, I have 7 community events to share with 6 different classes.  That means I have to create 42 different events for just 7 events.  This is taking an absurd amount of time.  Forward thinking for the rest of the school year - do I just say, eh, forgettaboutit kids - and not share these fabulous community events with them?  Or, is there a way I can create one event in one course, and then import or share it with another class?  I looked in the Canvas Instructor Guides and see nothing that can help.  Advice is appreciated, but a simpler route to sharing such events and saving time would be greatly appreciated.

Sincerely,

Mickey Sullivan

San Diego Unified School District

[kmcpher1]

I agree. This describes the need of many instructors at our university.

[jbuchner]

Could you use course import (selected content) and import the events to your other courses? Still not exactly what you want, but maybe slightly faster?

[Renee_Carney]

Greetings  @jthoms ‌

In the Canvas Beta Release Notes (2018-06-11) there is a section on Event Duplication.  It's not a new feature, but it is an update to the previously known "recurring event" feature.  

Does the functionality of this feature meet what you are seeking? 

[jthoms]

It's not quite exactly what I had in mind, as the duplication is tied to the original date, but it goes a long way towards what the intention was. 

I would have to test to be sure, but I'd imagine one workaround would be to set a daily repeat for the desired number of copies and then to drag to the desired days of the event (assuming it's not a regular occurrence).

Humbled and glad to see so many of these duplication requests moving forward.

[Renee_Carney]

Thank you for taking a look  @jthoms ! 

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[alexey_vdovin]

As a temporary partial fix for this issue I suggest making a Duplicate functionality(How do I duplicate an event in the Calendar as an instructor?) available for the events that have been created before. Currently duplication is only possible when creating a new event.