Calendar tool
In this section:
What is Possible with ICON’s Calendar Tool?
- Post course-related events.
- Project due dates, virtual office hours, quizzes, PBS programs, readings, guest speakers, chats
- Post personal (your eyes only) events or course (visible to all course members) events.
- Include an image or a link to a related website, course file, or other area of your ICON course.
- Compile events for printing.
- Students can add personal events (visible to the individual only).
Note: The default calendar view is Day. Unfortunately, there is no way to change this dafault to Week or Month.
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Posting an Event
- From the Course Home, click Open My Calendar, or click Calendar in the NavBar.
- Click Add Event in the menu at left.
- Type in a title (required, as denoted by the asterisk).
- Select a date from the droplist or click the small calendar image beside the droplists. If the event extends over multiple days, or if you wish to enter a start (and stop) time, click show more options (bottom right).
- To link to a related URL, enter the address in the Links textbox.
- Choose the event Type:
- Personal – For your eyes only
- Course Offering – Visible to all users
- Type in a description. Notice you have access to an html editor
(
) and a spell checker. The HTML editor offers various formatting options. It also allows you to insert images (
) and add links (
) to content files, to other areas of your ICON course, and to external websites. - Click Save. The event date is highlighted in the calendar at left.
To view an event, click on the highlighted event date in the calendar at left.