Summary of Calendar tools

The Canvas Calendar tool has various optional tools and features associated with it.

Some of these tools are at the sub-account level (for LCCs to share local events), available from an individual user's Account menu, or from the Home Page of individual Canvas calendars. Further information and links are provided below the diagram.

This diagram shows the various Canvas Calendar tools that are available, and from where they may be accessed.

visual infographic or map of various Calendar features

More information on Canvas Calendar tools:

  • Canvas Global calendar Links to an external site.: Every Canvas user has access to the Global Calendar in the Global Navigation menu. It shows events from calendars in all Canvas courses that a person is enrolled on. These course-level calendars are colour-coded and may be selected or de-selected for viewing in the Global Calendar.
  • Under Other Calendars, you can elect to subscribe to the institutional calendar: University of Oxford, which will display the University term names and week numbers as a separate calendar in Canvas.
  • Sub-account calendars: These may be enabled by your Local Canvas Coordinator, in order to share events with everyone at a particular level in the sub-account hierarchy.
  • Course-level calendars: Every Canvas course has a course-level calendar, which appears as a colour-coded calendar in the Global Calendar. On a course Home Page, there are two Calendar features: Calendar Import and Export to PDF.
  • Account of an individual user: Every user has an Account option on the  Global Navigation menu. This offers the feature Calendar Sync which allows you to select one or more Canvas calendars to synchronise with one or more external calendar apps of your choice
  • The Oxford Student Guidance page on the Calendar offers more information for students about the various calendar features.

Notes:

  1. The Global Calendar can display a maxiumum of 10 course calendars at a time.
  2. The calendars list and feed include only active courses  (i.e. not any that are past their end date) – although events from past courses are likely to be in the past anyway.