Canvas – Calendar – About Calendar

Students: The Calendar helps students see what assignments and events are coming up in the course. You can also create personal events such as study groups.

When would I use the Calendar as a student?

View course calendars and group calendars.
Create personal calendar reminders.
Filter the calendar view to only see specific calendars.
Copy the iCal feed for all of your courses and import it to your preferred personal Calendar, such as Google or Outlook.

Instructors: As an instructor, use the Calendar to:

View and create activities in your course as well as events and personal reminders; you can also filter the calendar view to only see specific calendars.
Quickly add Assignments to a blank course. Fill in the details of those Assignments later.
Adjust the dates of Assignments that have been imported from previous terms. Canvas makes it easy to drag and drop events across multiple months.
Copy the iCal feed for all of your courses and import it to your preferred personal Calendar, such as Google or Outlook.
Schedule appointments with students using the Scheduler (optional feature).