Calendar changes times / days by itself

[SoozC]

I'm completely new to Canvas (as an Instructor) and have been setting up a calendar for a course. It charts activities for each and every day of the course.

Logged in today and the calendar events have moved times and days without user input.

I need to know why this happens and how to prevent it. It's causing a loss of time on my part and some confusion too.

[ColtonSwapp]

Hello @SoozC 

I understand you are seeing some odd issues with your Calendar event dates and time shifting. 

This is a really odd behavior and I have not come across this before.

• How large of a shift in the times and dates are taking place?
• Do you have a TA or Co-Instructor in the course who might be shifting/editing those dates and times on accident? 

-Colton

[SoozC]

Thanks for your reply. Don't believe anyone else was changing times and dates.

Have deleted all content and will rebuild when have time.

I did change original content from 1pm on July 29 to 9am on 29 July, then the next day the first item was 11:30 pm on 29 July, and all other content pushed to July 30.

 

We are in a different time zone in Australia, and maybe that has something to do with it?

 

Cheers

Suzanne

[chriscas]

Hi @SoozC,

I could definitely see this being a time zone issue.  What I'd suggest is making sure you have your own time zone set in your user settings area.  You'll enter all of the days/times in your time zone time, then Canvas will do the conversion to the course or other users' time zones as appropriate.  It's possible a time zone setting was inadvertently changed somewhere and messed something up, but hopefully that won't happen again!

Hope this helps!

-Chris

[SoozC · Accepted solution]

Hi Chris

That was the first thing I did when accessing Canvas. I solved the issue by completely deleting the existing calendar events, then for Unit 2 of the course, creating a new calendar. This worked as expected with the days and dates staying as they were set up by myself.

Cheers

Suzanne