TL;DR: Account Calendars are in production! We want to gather your feedback for future iterations. Admins, take the survey here.
On November 19, our team released Account Calendars, a new feature that allows institutions to enable calendars for various sub-accounts that instructors and learners can subscribe to. This was a longtime request from our community that will help facilitate communication of key information across institutions. We’ve received a great response from institutions across the globe and look forward to hearing your success stories!
Our goal was to deliver value to you as soon as possible, so we released this feature with the understanding that many of you would require additional functionality in order to fully adopt this feature. We’ve received a lot of feedback in this vein since we first announced its release in October, and we are already working on turning that feedback into feature improvements. So, in the spirit of transparency, I wanted to update you on what we’ve heard, what we plan to take action on in the near term, and how you can help us continue to make improvements to Account Calendars.
What we’ve been hearing
By far, the number one piece of feedback we’ve received is the need to auto-subscribe your community to a particular calendar or set of calendars. In the initial release, we opted to keep things simple, meaning a user subscribes to an account calendar voluntarily. This is a nice experience for the user, but we heard a lot of concern from administrators that their community, particularly younger learners, may never subscribe to important calendars.
Another piece of feedback we’ve heard is from our Canvas for Elementary campuses that want to mark account calendar events as important dates and to have those events show up in the “Schedule” tab.
And unsurprisingly, much of the feedback we’ve received has been related to larger improvements to the Canvas Calendar in general, such as establishing a feed from another calendar application to avoid maintaining multiple calendars, creating multi-day events, and making event creation easier.
We are so grateful for the feedback we’ve received thus far and we’ll continue to evaluate it as we hear from our community.
How you can help
We are already taking action on several pieces of feedback we’ve heard from you, but we need you to help us refine our designs and properly prioritize. Canvas Admins, this is your call to action! Please take this survey ! Your participation will provide valuable information that will help us chart a path forward.
Thanks to all of you that have taken the time to help us and we look forward to reading your survey responses!
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