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About Calendar

With the Calendar tool you can view any scheduled events.

You can add private entries to the calendar (visible only to yourself). And, if the instructor has allowed it, public ones (visible to everyone in the course).

Calendar Features

The calendar of course events has 2 parts

  1. The general course information that your professor makes available to everyone in the class
  2. And any personal (private) remarks that you put in your calendar (not available to other students). All private entries are italicized.

Your instructor has the option of customizing the calendar to allow you to post to the public calendar so that other students can see what you’ve posted.

Viewing Calendar

You have several ways to view the Calendar

  • You will see notice of any new Calendar entries just beneath the course title on your myWebCT page.
    • You can click on the underlined notice to jump directly to the Calendar posting.
  • When you click on the calendar icon, any new events that have been added to the calendar since the last time you visited will pop up in a separate window.
  • You may be able to click on the link to Calendar from the Course Menu.
  • Or, you may be able to access the Calendar by clicking on the Calendar icon on a course webpage.

View A Single Day

  • To view Calendar entries for a particular day, find the appropriate month on the pull down menu, then click the [Go] button or click on Previous Month or Next Month.
  • To view the daily schedule, click on the underlined date on the monthly Calendar. To return to the monthly view, click on View Month.


Compile Calendar Entries

You can download a text file copy of the Calendar entries

  1. Click on Compile. The Compile Calendar Entries page will appear.
  2. To compile and display entries, select a date and criteria for your search and then click Display.

Note: You can only compile public entries.

Adding Calendar Entries

This option allows you to add individual public, or private, calendar entries depending on the access level your instructor has set.

  1. From the main Calendar screen, click on the hyperlinked number that corresponds to the day of the month to which you wish to add an entry. The View Day screen will be displayed.
  2. Click Add. The Add a Calendar Entry screen will be displayed.
  3. Select or type the appropriate information to describe your entry. Available choices include:
  • Date: pre-selected but you can change it
  • Summary: brief description of the entry
  • URL: the address for a web page or site
  • Detail: detail about the calendar entry.
  • Start Time and End Time: duration of the entry
  • Access Level: public or private as defined by your instructor
  • Note: only the date and summary fields are required to post an entry.
  1. Click [Add].
  2. The View Day screen appears and the entry you added is displayed.


Deleting Calendar Entries

This option allows you to delete any calendar entries you wrote and posted to the calendar, public, or private (depending on the access level set by your instructor).

To delete individual calendar entries perform the following procedure:

  1. From the Calendar screen, click on the hyperlinked number that corresponds to the day of the month from which you wish to delete an entry.
  2. Select the entry you wish to delete.
  3. Click Delete.
  4. A warning entry is displayed.
  5. Click OK.
  6. Click Continue to complete the action.
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