One Heartbeat calendar for scheduling courses, threads and events

Right now Heartbeat has 3 Calendars, and none of them play together. This is an unfair labour and ineffective communication issue. Admins are trying to save everyone else time by keeping them engaged and informed, but the amount of time it costs us to do this properly is unacceptable.

Events is also the only one that supports recurring scheduling, with the Courses calendar supporting dripping only from signup (useful for evergreen but not for cohorts).

Case study for cohorts: For my cohort, I ended up having to manually schedule each of 75 lessons of a daily challenge over 6 weeks. To run a challenge, you need daily small interactions, which means scheduled posts. Then I had to create a parallel schedule in threads and post there at the same time, so that the community discussion cards from the course had a counterpart participants could actually leave comments on. So I have two parallel schedules running now, one in threads, with backlinks to the course, and the other in course lessons, with "embed" links to the threads. It was my imagination initially that heartbeat would offer a shortcut or automation to those possibilities.

No integrated calendar, no automated recurring schedule. Big frustration. I probably spent six days just doing this.

Related:

https://heartbeat.canny.io/feature-requests/p/improve-scheduling-interface-function

https://heartbeat.canny.io/feature-requests/p/set-a-start-date-for-dripping-courses