Calendar

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Find and navigate the calendar

From the global calendar in the list where your name appears, you can see all your upcoming due dates and meetings across your courses—all in one place.

In your calendar, find this event information:

• Office hours: These appointments appear automatically on the calendar when you add them to a course.
• Due dates: When you create content with a due date, it appears automatically in the calendar.

Check your course calendar

When you access the calendar from inside a course, it shows events for that course only. Select the Calendar tab from the course's navigation bar.

The course view of the calendar displays due dates, the course schedule, office hours, and course-specific meetings and events. When you create content with a due date, it appears automatically in the calendar.

All events you create within a specific course roll up into the global calendar. You can switch over to the big picture by accessing your global calendar from the list where your name appears.

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Choose your view

• Select Day or Month to zoom in on one day's tasks or plan for the weeks ahead.
• Select Due Dates to focus only on your upcoming deadlines.
• Select the Calendar Settings button in the upper-right corner to choose the calendars you want to see.

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Add or edit an event

To add events to your personal calendar, select Calendar from base navigation bar. Select the New Event button and then select Add Event. Enter the event's name, date, time, and location.

Select the title of an event you added to change its details.

You can move and delete events in your calendar. Drag and drop personal events to change times or delete personal events that you no longer need. Students can't delete or move events added by you.

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Add or edit a course schedule

• Schedule a course. From your calendar, Select the New Event button and then select Edit Schedule. Under Schedule, select the plus sign button for the course to schedule and then enter the time, date, and location for the meeting. In the Nickname field, enter the name for the meeting you want to appear on the calendar. You can add multiple meetings for a course.  

• Edit the schedule for a course. From your calendar, Select the New Event button and then select Edit Schedule. Under Schedule, select the dots button for the meeting to edit, and then update its details.    

You can also add a schedule from the course record. Under Details and Actions, select Add course schedule and then enter the details. 

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Share your calendar

Your schedule is a mix of academic and personal commitments. To help keep up with everything you've got going on, it helps to put everything on one calendar.

You can share your Blackboard Learn calendar with external services so course events appear with other events.

You can't share calendars for individual courses. When you share your calendar, events for all of your courses appear.

1. Select Calendar from the base navigation bar.
2. Select the Calendar Settings button.
3. From the Calendar Settings screen, select the dots button and select Share Calendar.
4. Copy the calendar link. Share the URL only with trusted sources.

When you connect your Blackboard Learn calendar to an external calendar, all course events appear one year in the past and into the future.

Add calendar to iCal

To share your Blackboard Learn calendar with iCal, you'll add it as a calendar subscription.

1. Open iCal on your Apple device.
2. Go to File > New Calendar Subscription.
3. Paste the Blackboard Learn calendar link and select Subscribe.
4. Enter the calendar's name and adjust other settings. In the Location field, select iCloud if you want the calendar to appear on your other authenticated Apple devices such as iPhone or iPad.
5. Select OK to finish set up.

Add calendar to Google calendar

Share your Blackboard Learn calendar with Google calendar to view all events in one place.

1. Open your Google calendar in a browser.
2. Under Other calendars, select Add other calendars, and then select From URL.
3. Paste the Blackboard Learn calendar link and select Add calendar to save.
4. Open the calendar's settings to rename it and adjust sharing and notification settings.

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Add an external calendar

If you prefer to use Blackboard Learn's calendar, you can also add an external calendar file to your Blackboard Learn calendar so course events appear with other events.

1. Select Calendar from the base navigation bar.
2. Select the Calendar Settings button.
3. From the Calendar Settings screen, select the dots button and select Add Calendar.
4. In the window, drag and drop or upload the calendar file. Only ICS files are supported.
5. Select Add Calendar to finish and import events.

When you add your external calendar to Blackboard Learn, events appear one year in the past and into the future. The events are grouped under My Personal Calendar to show that you added them yourself. The events don't reference the calendar or the name of the file you uploaded.

You can edit or delete events you upload just like any other event you add.

What is ICS?

ICS refers to a standardized calendar file type that lets you export and import files between different applications. These files use .ics at the end of the file name. Many popular calendar applications, including Google Calendar and Apple Calendar, use the ICS standard.