Introduction

The course calendar is used to organize and display events and assignments to make it easy for you and your students to stay on top of all activities and due dates associated with your courses.

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Get to know the Canvas Calendar
Create calendar events in your course
Use the Scheduler

Get to know the Canvas calendar

The calendar in Canvas is a global feature, meaning that you and your students can see all assignments and events from all courses in one convenient place. If the Calendar becomes too crowded, it can be filtered by selecting or deselecting individual courses listed to the right of the calendar.

The Canvas calendar automatically displays any due dates you set for your course assignments, quizzes, or discussions, but you can also use the calendar to manually create events and milestones throughout your course. You'll learn more about creating assignments and quizzes with specific due dates later in this course, but for now, use the resources below to familiarize yourself with the features and options available in the calendar.

Read or watch a brief introduction to the calendar and its purpose:

- What is the calendar?

- Calendar Overview

Learn how to view and filter the items in the Calendar with the following tutorial:

How do I use the calendar?

Create calendar events in your course

Sometimes there are events outside of class time, such as conferences, talks, and concerts, that you would like your students to know about or attend. Follow the steps in this tutorial to practice adding a new event to your course calendar:

How do I add an event to the course calendar?

Use the Scheduler

The Scheduler lets you set up and track registration for predefined appointment slots, or "appointment groups," for different purposes. It allows students to sign up for time slots for events such as office hours or in-class presentations. Follow the steps in this tutorial to learn more about appointment groups and how to create them:

How do I create an appointment group in the Scheduler?

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