Changing to-do dates on blueprint-controlled pages

[eric_orton]

When using a blueprint, with blueprint settings configured to lock the content attribute, but NOT the availability dates attribute, for locked pages, instructors still can't change the to-do date on locked pages in their associated course when those pages are locked in the blueprint. It is as though the to-do dates is being treated as part of the content attribute of the page rather than part of the availability dates attribute. This makes no sense to me, since a page's to-do date is essentially its due date, and for all other item types (e.g., assignments, quizzes, discussions), due dates in associated courses can be changed, along with availability dates, on locked items of that type when dates are not a locked attribute for that item type in the blueprint settings, even when content is a locked attribute for the item type. Can anyone explain this to me? Is this a bug, or a feature? If a feature, why? Why should the to-do dates of a page be treated differently in blueprints that the due dates of all other item types? It seems inconsistent, unintuitive, and senseless.

[dbrace]

Hi Eric,

I do not have an answer for you.

If it is a "bug", and I do not know if it is or not but this is the best way to proceed, this would need to be reported to Canvas Support. Have you reported it to them?

If the blueprint settings are working as designed but not as expected, this would need to be submitted as an idea in the Community for development.

-Doug