{"id":3600,"date":"2017-01-04T16:10:10","date_gmt":"2017-01-05T00:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/?p=3600"},"modified":"2025-08-18T13:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T20:23:11","slug":"calendrically-speaking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisahistory.net\/wordpress\/2017\/01\/calendrically-speaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Calendrically speaking"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have always been a big fan of paper calendars. But when it comes to teaching, there are many things I need to put on a calendar that are the same from semester to semester. My solution recently has been creating a spreadsheet calendar, putting in these recurring items (grade primary sources, grade Writing Assignment III, etc), then printing it out and writing in the dates.<\/p>\n

After almost three decades working with Microsoft products, I could not figure out how to get the pages to print correctly.<\/p>\n

Why do I need such a calendar, when the LMS has its own calendar? For the first time since Blackboard days, I will be teaching in three different systems: MiraCosta’s Canvas (two classes), MiraCosta’s Moodle (four classes), and free Canvas (one class). This is how I will transition from Moodle to Canvas over the next 18 months.<\/p>\n

The Canvas and Moodle calendars, plus my own grading calendar, would need to be in the same place to do this electronically. So today I used the URL from the Canvas<\/a>\u00a0and Moodle\u00a0calendars, and put them into Google’s calendar, then added my grading tasks.<\/p>\n

Both LMSs, unfortunately, export the full calendar (all classes), not each class \u2013 this is a problem because Google imports them all as one calendar, with all tasks in the same color regardless of which class it is. I wanted a separate Google calendar for each class. Luckily, I was able to solve this for Canvas by exporting each course’s calendar from Student View, as recommended by Chris Long in the Canvas Community<\/a>. There is no way to do this for Moodle, but it didn’t matter, because both sections are of the same class and on the same calendar.<\/p>\n

Now I have all tasks in one place, accessible on my phone or on computer.<\/p>\n

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I’ve never not used a paper calendar of some kind (yes, I know, call me steampunky), so we’ll see how it goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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