Hi there,
Fairly new with Canvas at my University in the UK. We have had some requests from out Student Union and they would like to use the Canvas Calendar independently of a Course or Organisation space. From looking online it looks like this isn't possible. It has to be related to a specific course area. Does anyone have any examples or case studies where they have set up areas? For example, student societies etc...I would be keen to get an idea of what is possible. I am guessing whatever the setup there will be a degree of admin involved in keeping everything up to date.
Thanks, Paul.
Hello @PaulBiggs It's an interesting request. The only way I think this could work for you is to create a course for the Students' Union and then use its calendar. This would require that all students who need to use this calendar be enrolled in that course.
Great, thanks @lsorroche good to know that it will help the wider Canvas community and there's wider interest in using the calendar in different ways. Thanks for your reply.
Hi @PaulBiggs,
At my institution we have a "custom" setup (it is not really that involved) that looks like this:
We also have "Student Life Groups" (which might be similar to your societies) types of courses. In these courses we give the group's advisor "facilitator" access (a custom role based on "teacher" that allows for enrolling Canvas user accounts as a "student" in the course, which is something we do not allow in our "regular" courses) and a couple of trustworthy students (usually president, vice president, secretary) that are leaders of the group are given "student facilitator" access (a custom role based on "teacher" that allows for enrolling students but without the ability to see PII). Basically these courses serve as an area for the groups to organize themselves, share files, and have discussions.
I hope both of these models help you brainstorm options.
Let me know if you have any questions and I will answer them either publicly or in a private message.
-Doug
Thanks @dbrace for raising that. I'm not sure that access would be granted for Account Calendars but I will look into it.
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