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How do I use the Calendar?

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Disclaimer: The Calendar widget it is not a replacement of the course's timetable, for the course's timetable please visit this link.

The Calendar widget

The Calendar is your personal calendar. On your personal homepage and on the Course Home of each course you can find the Calendar Widget

You can see all the events of all of your courses in the Calendar widget on your homepage. 

If you access the Calendar widget through Course Home, you will only see the events related to that course.

Due dates are also marked as events in your calendar. 

The Calendar is always visible on the right side under Announcements

The Calendar widget consists of two parts:

  1. The Calendar: this is the calendar display when the widget is closed. Click on the arrow to see the calendar display when the widget is expanded. The date in bold is the current date. Any events are marked with a blue dot underneath the date number on the calendar.
  2. Upcoming events: this is a list of upcoming events. Click on the arrow to see the upcoming events.

In the above picture you can see how the calendar looks like when the widgets are collapsed.

In the above picture you can see how the calendar looks like when the widgets are expanded.

The Calendar

Click on the down pointing arrow on top of the Calendar widget to open the Actions available for the Calendar.

  1.        In Go to Calendar you may find events from the calendars of each course. Via the different tabs you can choose how the calendars are displayed:
  • Agenda: view the events for today, tomorrow or for a week. Also use this view to sort events by date, course or category.
  • Day: view a day from your agenda per hour.
  • Week: view a week in your agenda.
  • Month: view a month in your agenda.
  • List: view all your upcoming events in list view. Also use this view to easily filter events.
  • <|> : view all events for Today and Tomorrow, Next 7 days, or Next 14 Days.
  1. You can also enter the Calendar Page by clicking on the Calendar word itself.
  2. If you click on a date, you navigate to the day view of the relevant day.

2.        In Subscribe you can download your calendar with all of the events from all your courses and paste it into an external Calendar. If you wish to download the calendar of only one specific course, you can click on the All Calendars and Tasks bar to select it. 

3.        By clicking on Collapse this Widget you can make the calendar widget smaller. If you wish to undo this action, press on the down pointing arrow at the right of the Calendar again, and select  Expand this Widget.

                    Photo 1: Collapsed Calendar Widget                              Photo 2: Expand Calendar Widget Option

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