Do one of the following:

• Click Calendar on the navbar.
• Click Go to Calendar from the Calendar widget action menu.

Calendar user interface

Use the calendar views area to toggle between different display layouts for events in the calendar content area. Use the Agenda view to group your course events by Date, Course, or Category - events display in chronological order, and all-day events display at the top of each grouped listing. Use the Day, Week, and Month views to group your events in daily, weekly, or monthly increments. Use the List view to filter your events by Dropbox, Checklists, Discussions, Grades, Materials, Modules, Quizzes, and Surveys. Finally, you can Print, adjust your calendar Settings, or Browse through your calendars.

Use the calendar menu to select multiple calendars to display, change the color scheme associated with individual calendars, and add new calendars.

Use the mini calendar to navigate quickly to a specific day, week, or month. To view a specific day in detail, click the Day calendar view, then click on the day you wish to view in detail in the mini calendar. Your calendar content will load to the day selected in the mini calendar. To view a specific week in detail, click the Week calendar view, then click on any day in the week you wish to view in detail in the mini calendar. To view a specific month in detail, click the Month calendar view, then click on any day in that month you wish to view in detail in the mini calendar. To browse through the mini calendar's months, click the Show [Previous Month] and Show [Next Month] icons.

Use the task pane to create, track, and maintain personal tasks.

1. Click the Change Calendar Colors icon from the calendar menu area.
2. Select the course you want to change the color for from the drop-down list in Calendar Colors. Click the desired calendar color. Lighten or darken the color by moving the arrow on the side of the color bar up and down.
3. Click Done.

Note To help you meet visual accessibility standards, there is a built-in WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guideline) checker on the color selection page. Be aware that if you choose a shade that does not meet these guidelines (for example, the contrast between the text color and the background color is too low), the check mark by  WCAG AA will be replaced by a warning or error icon to alert you to possible accessibility issues. See Customizing colors [30] for more information.

You can print a daily, weekly, or monthly calendar from the calendar views area, as well as an agenda or list view of your calendar. Click Print and select your Print Options.

1. Click the calendar menu, then click the Add Calendar icon.
2. On the Add Calendars page, select the calendars that you want to display in the calendar content area.
3. Click Add.

Each course is assigned its own identifying color by default. To change the default colors, see Changing calendar colors [3].

See also

• Changing calendar colors [3]

Click the Remove Calendar icon beside the course you want to remove from the calendar menu area.

You can switch your current org unit by changing your active course calendar. Select a course from the calendar menu to activate it.

Active calendars in the calendar menu

Note Even when you set your current calendar, the calendar content area will, by default, show events from all the courses listed in the calendar menu. To filter the view, click the Remove Calendar icon by the course's name you wish to remove from view in the calendar menu.

Set your active course calendar

Click on a course name from the calendar menu.

There are two different types of events in the Calendar tool:

• Availability events

  Availability events indicate the availability and due dates of course objects in the Calendar tool, but do not have to be created using the Calendar tool. Once you are enrolled in a course, all objects for that course that you enable to display in the calendar will be visible. You can set due dates for course objects, edit, and delete availability events directly from the Calendar tool.

• General (Content) events

  These are events you create within the Calendar tool.

1. Select a course from the calendar menu.
2. You will see the course name display as the menu name. Click on it to view that course's schedule.

Use Tasks to keep your course events distinct from your personal tasks.

Create tasks

1. Enter the name of the task in the Add an immediate task, Add an upcoming task, or Add a task field.
2. Click the task name to add or edit a due date, add notes to your task, or delete your task.

1. Click the task name to show task details.
2. If your task does not have a due date, click directly on the No due date text to bring up a date selector field, then select a due date, and click the Save due date icon.
3. Click on the Add a note... field to add explanatory notes to your task. Click outside the text field to save your note.

Mark a task complete

Select the check box beside the task name in the task pane. The task disappears from view, but remains in your searchable task archive.

Marking all tasks complete

Select Set all Complete from the Tasks context menu.

Note Tasks will only disappear when you mark them complete if you select Hide completed tasks in the drop-down list under Completed Tasks in Settings.

You can bring up a list of completed tasks by clicking View Completed Tasks in the task pane. However, you can choose to display completed tasks for a certain period of time in the task pane before they are hidden.

Display or hide completed tasks

1. Click Settings in the calendar views area.
2. Under Completed Tasks, select your preferred setting for completed tasks using the drop-down list.

1. Click Settings in the calendar views area.
2. In the Tasks Options section, select your preferred Upcoming Tasks Default Durations using the drop-down list.

Note As a student, you can only create Calendar events for your group.

Create a general (content) event

1. Using the calendar menu, select the course for which you want to create the event.
2. Click Create Event in the calendar content area.
3. Click Add Content on the Create Event page to associate course content with the event. Select the radio button of the content you want to add to the event and click Add.
4. Enter a Title, Description, and specify a date and time. If you add content and want to add a custom name for the event, select Use custom name and enter the custom title.
5. Click Create.

You can also create events directly in the day, week, and month Calendar views by clicking a time or date.

Optional information:

• Enter information about recurrences and restrictions. See Adding event recurrences and restrictions in Calendar [18] for more information.
• When entering a Description, you can use the HTML Editor to insert tables, quicklinks, images, and you can also include resources available through the Insert Stuff option.
• Enter a Location. If you choose to add a custom location, you can enter a URL as a location.
• Add Presenters. See Adding a presenter to an event in Calendar [31] for more information.

Note To add and remove content to an event after you have already created it, click the context menu for the event name in agenda view, then click Edit Event, or click the event in the calendar content are, then click Edit.

"Quick create" an event

1. In the calendar menu, click on a course to set it as the current calendar.
2. In Day view, click a time interval to create an event within that course.
3. Enter a Title and select Attendees if applicable.

See also

• Adding event recurrences and restrictions in Calendar [18]

Inside the event you want to add a location and seating chart to, select Custom from the Location drop-down list. Enter the location in the text box.

1. Click Settings in the calendar views area.
2. In the Default Event Duration drop-down list, make your time selection. Click Save.

Click between the Day, Week, and Month buttons to toggle the way the calendar displays events.

Change core hours

1. Click Settings in the calendar views area.
2. Set your core hours. Click Save.

Note It is more important to set core hours if you are viewing your calendar on a smaller resolution screen. Core hours determine the minimum height of the day and week view, and the shaded areas of the calendar.

Hide or show weekends

1. Click Settings in the calendar views area
2. Under Core Hours on the Settings page, clear or select the check box next to Show weekends to hide or show weekends. Click Save.

View as an agenda

To display calendar content in the Agenda view, click Agenda in the calendar views area.

Change event grouping

You can change how events in the agenda are grouped using the Date, Course, and Category options in the calendar content area.

Change time range

To change the time range of the list of events in the Agenda view, toggle the left- and right-facing arrows. Your choices are:

• Today and tomorrow
• Next 7 days
• Next 14 days.

In the List view, you can see all your course events in a list. You can also filter them by type: Dropbox, Checklists, Discussions, Grades, Materials, Modules, Quizzes, and Surveys.

Do one of the following:

• Click on the event in the day, week, or month view to access a partial display of event details.
• • Click More… to see full event details in these views, including any content available for viewing.
• Click the event in the List view to access full event details.

Do one of the following:

• In the Agenda view, click the context menu for the event name and select Delete Event.
• In the Day, Week, and Month view, click the event, and Delete.
• In the List view, click the event. Select Delete Event from the context menu of the event.

• Note You can only delete events created in the Calendar tool.

Use iCal feeds to access your Calendar events outside of the learning tool. With iCal feeds, you can view your course events in external calendars such as Microsoft Outlook® and Google Calendar®, and mobile devices such as iPhones, Blackberries, and Android phones.

Enable iCal feeds

1. Click Settings in the calendar views area.
2. Select Enable Calendar Feeds.

Subscribing to iCal feeds syncs your external calendar application or device with the Learning Suite Calendar tool, keeping you updated without necessarily logging in to Learning Environment.

Subscribe to an iCal feed

Note Refer to your device or application instructions for adding an iCal feed, as each application can have a different method for managing iCal feeds.

Exporting iCal files allows you to export your calendar events as static events into external calendar tools such as Google Calendar^® or Microsoft Outlook^®. Your external calendar will not reflect changes subsequently made to your Learning Suite calendar.

Export iCal files

You can add new events and update existing events by importing them from an external iCal file into your Calendar.

Import events from an iCal file

1. Select the course you want your events to be grouped under by clicking on it from the calendar menu.
2. Click Import Events.
3. Click Browse on the Import Events page to search for the iCal file containing your events. If you want to import the events into a specific group or section, select it in the Attendees drop-down list.
4. Click Open, then click Import.