Unselected courses showing up in Calendar Feed

[jenn4]

I use the Calendar Feed link from the Canvas Calendar so I can see all of the assignment due dates in my regular calendar. (That's the intent, right?) However, Canvas has started adding any courses with due dates into the feed, regardless of whether they're selected in the Canvas calendar.

This includes the sandbox shells that I use to create the course content, so I end up with entries from my live courses and the sandbox course. 

If I wait to add the due dates in the live courses, I won't see the sandbox entries. However, I have multiple sections of the same courses, and it's more expedient to add the due dates in the sandbox and copy the content to the live course than to add them multiple times in the live courses.

I've been doing this for years and never had the unselected courses show up in my calendar feed until recently.

What can I do to make the sandbox entries go away? It's making my calendar cluttered to have every assignment duplicated. 

Thanks!

[chriscas · Accepted solution]

Hi @jenn4,

Unfortunately, I don't think there is currently a way to do what you'd like to accomplish.  According to the  How do I subscribe to the Calendar feed using Goog... - Instructure Community - 535  guide, "The calendar feed contains events and assignments from all of your Canvas calendars," but, "To Do items are not included in the Calendar iCal feed," and "After you import your calendar feed and are enrolled in a new course, you must re-import your calendar feed to include the new course calendar."  I actually thought even new courses were automatically added to the feed, but the guide says that's not correct.  Either way on that, it doesn't appear possible to get a feed of only certain calendars right now.  Personally, having a feed for each course/calendar would seem like a good idea to me.  You could submit an idea like that to the ideas area of the community if you'd like, but it wouldn't be likely to get developed in the very near future.

I hope this helps, even if it's not the info you were hoping to get.

-Chris

[finea]

Hi,

I'm having this same issue, and it only started recently. I used to select the calendars I wanted, and only those showed. Now I'm getting events from unchecked calendars - it doesn't make sense that this changed. Why are the checkboxes there if we can't select only certain calendars? Has something changed recently? I only started having this problem this month.

Thanks,

Africa Fine