The scheduling and resource management system TimeEdit and the learning management system Canvas don’t always play nice out of the box. Changes made in TimeEdit can create confusion if they don’t sync automatically with Canvas. But here’s the good news: with our solution from Stint, they work together seamlessly. This ensures students and instructors always have access to up-to-date and accurate lecture and activity schedules.
TimeEdit schedules sync smoothly as calendar events in Canvas. Any changes made in TimeEdit are automatically updated within 15 minutes. This means schedules are always displayed correctly, allowing both students and staff to rely on accurate, current timetables in Canvas without the guesswork.
TimeEdit’s dynamic data types are cleverly mapped to Canvas’s structured elements—like courses, sections, groups, and users. This ensures precise synchronization of teaching units and activities, whether students or instructors are grouped by academic year, course sections, or other categories.
Our integration between TimeEdit and Canvas is built to be super flexible, letting each school or university tweak the settings to match their unique needs. It smartly maps TimeEdit data to Canvas, handles priority rules based on context, and even cleans up by automatically removing old or expired bookings.
We’ve set up syncing to happen on two levels, so schedules stay accurate and up-to-date:
Quick updates run automatically every 5 to 30 minutes, keeping things fresh.
A full refresh happens once a day, wiping out any manual tweaks made in Canvas to avoid mix-ups.
