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*The Calendar is used for reminding students of graded Assignments with specific due dates. To provide students with detailed descriptions of how synchronous class time will be used, consider using '''[http://guides.instructure.com/m/4152/c/23858 Pages]''' or customizing the '''[http://guides.instructure.com/m/4152/c/23838 Course Home Page]'''.
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*The Calendar automatically syncs with other features in Canvas, such as Assignments, Syllabus, and Grades, so if you create, change, or delete the due date of an Assignment on the Calendar, it will show up in all the others and vice versa. You can change dates easily by dragging and dropping assignments from one date to another.
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*The Calendar in Canvas is a global feature, meaning you can see all of your assignments from all of your courses in one place. If your Calendar becomes too crowded, you can filter the number of events listed on your Calendar by selecting or deselecting courses in the Sidebar.
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*The Calendar is designed to display up to 10 calendars at any given time. To help manage user calendars, courses customized in the courses drop-down menu as a favorite course will always be listed at the top of the user’s calendar list in the calendar sidebar.
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Note: iOS users can sync the Canvas calendar with the calendars on their mobile devices. For more details visit the [http://guides.instructure.com/ Mobile Guides].
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====[http://guides.instructure.com/m/4152/l/54669-how-do-i-view-the-calendar How do I view the Calendar?]====
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*The Calendar is a great way to view everything you have to do for all your courses in one place.
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====[http://guides.instructure.com/m/4152/l/81746-how-do-i-set-a-different-calendar-event-date-for-each-section-in-my-course How do I set a different Calendar event date for each section in my course?]====
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*This lesson will help you use different Calendar event dates for each section you have in your course. [http://guides.instructure.com/s/2204/m/4152/l/81744-how-do-i-access-my-course-calendar Click here to learn how to access your course Calendar].
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*Scheduler is part of the new calendar and creates appointment groups (collection of individual appointments) that students can sign up for.
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Options for Communicating with Students in Canvas

Communication Overview (Video)

In this video, you will learn how to communicate with your students using Announcements, Discussions, and Conversations.


Announcements

Announcements allow you to communicate with your students about course activities and post interesting course-related topics. Remind students about upcoming deadlines. Point students to internal and external resources in the form of written content/attachments or even audio/video comments. Feed a custom RSS feed related to the topic of the offering to your students.
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Discussions

Discussions within Canvas provide an integrated system for you and your students to start and contribute to discussion topics. Discussions can also be created as an assignment for grading purposes and can be integrated with the Canvas Gradebook.
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Calendar

One of the challenges facing both students and faculty is keeping track of all of the assignments planned throughout the term. The Calendar helps everyone stay on schedule and up to date.
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Conversations

Conversations is a messaging system within Canvas.
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Comments/Feedback

Canvas provides a variety of options for leaving feedback for students. See also Assessment and Grading Tools.
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Conferences

Conferences can be used primarily for conducting virtual lectures and virtual office hours. You can use conferences to conduct presentations to a large online audience using webcams, audio, and desktop sharing abilities. Conferences also allow you to conduct a live chat session with the audience present in the conference room. Conference rooms can also be used by students to conduct group study sessions.
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Course Activity Stream

The Course Activity Stream shows you all of the recent activity from a single course. This is different from the Global Stream, which you see in the Dashboard when you first log in to Canvas. As faculty, you have the option to show the Course Activity Stream as your Course Home Page or not.
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