Calendar tool
In this section:
What is Possible with ICON’s Schedule (Calendar) Tool?
- Post course-related events -- project due dates, virtual office hours, quizzes, links to online videos, readings, guest speakers, chats.
- Post 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.
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Posting an Event
Important note: In the current version of ICON, events will not display in your Calendar or in the homepage Events widget unless your ICON site is active. To view events before making your course active, you will need to do a search in the Calendar tool.
- From the Course Home, click
Schedule Tool in the Events widget, or click Schedule in the top NavBar. - Click
New Event in the menu at the top. - Type in a title (required, as denoted by the asterisk) and enter 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. - You may also mark the event as private (other users won't see details but will see time as busy), set the event priority (normal, high, low), and add an external link.
- Select a date from the droplist or click the small calendar image beside the droplists.
- Set the Event Access: for users you select, for the entire course, or for certain groups or sections.
- 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.
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Printing the Listing of Calendar Events
- From the Course Home, click the
Open Schedule icon in the Events box at left, or click Calendar in the upper-left NavBar. - Click
Print in the gray bar above the calendar. - Use your browser’s print function to print the page (or copy and paste it into a Word document).