Student Tools

Calendar

The Calendar tool lets you view events for your courses. In addition, you can use it to keep track of your personal appointments. The Calendar tool functions differently depending on how you access it. The Filtering, Adding Personal Events, Modifying a Personal Event, and Removing Personal Events options are only available if you enter the Calendar tool from the My Institution area.
If you access the Calendar tool from the My Institution area, you will see all of the events for all your courses and organizations you are participating in, as well as any personal events you have entered yourself.
If you access the Calendar tool within a specific course, you will only see events for that course, and you will be unable to see or modify personal events.

Viewing Your Calendar

From the My Institution area:

1. Click on the Calendar link.
2. Click on the View Day, View Week, View Month, or View Year tab at the top of the calendar.

From the Course area:

1. Click on the Tools link in the navigation menu.
2. Click on the Calendar link.
3. Click on the View Day, View Week, View Month, or View Year tab at the top of the calendar.

View Options:

• View Day – Blackboard displays a list of all your events for the day. The day starts at 6:00 am and ends at 11:30 pm. The event appears next to its start time, which is rounded to the earliest half-hour. You may access event details (Date, Start Time, End Time, Category, and Event Description) by clicking on the name of the event or the calendar icon to the left of the name.
• View Week – Blackboard displays a list of all your events for the current week. The event appears next to its start time, which is rounded to the earliest half-hour. You may access event details (Date, Start Time, End Time, Category, and Event Description) by clicking on the name of the event or the calendar icon to the left of the name.
• View Month – Blackboard displays the current month and highlights the current date in gray. For each date, you will only see the name of the events taking place that day. You may access event details (Date, Start Time, End Time, Category, and Event Description) by clicking on the name of the event. Clicking on the number of any date will take you to the Day view for that date.
• View Year – Blackboard displays all the dates for the current year, and highlights the current date in gray. Dates that have events will appear in red. Clicking on any date link will take you to the Day view for that date. Clicking on any month link will take you to the Month view for that month.

Jumping to a Specific Date, Week, or Month

From the My Institution area:

1. Click on the Calendar link.
2. Click on the Quick Jump button.
3. Choose the date from the drop-down menus.
4. Click on the Day, Week, or Month radio button to choose the type of view you would like to see that date in.
5. Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and click on the Submit button.

From the Course area:

1. Click on the Tools link in the navigation menu.
2. Click on the Calendar link.
3. Click on the Quick Jump button.
4. Choose the date from the drop-down menus.
5. Click on the Day, Week, or Month radio button to choose the type of view you would like to see that date in.
6. Scroll down to the bottom of the screen and click on the Submit button.

Filtering Calendar Items

From the My Institution area:

1. Click on the Calendar link.
2. Choose an Event filter from the Filter drop-down menu.
3. Click on the Go button.

Filter Options:

• All Events – Use this option to display all events.
• My Events – Use this option to display personal events.
• Institutional Events – Use this option to display system-wide events.
• Course Events – Use this option to display events associated with courses.
• Events for a Specific Course – Use this option to display events for a specific course.
• Organization Events – Use this option to displays events associated with organizations.
• Events for a Specific Organization – Use this option to display events for a specific organization.

More Information

Q: I know I have an event today, but it doesn’t show up on the calendar. What happened?
A: You may have accessed the Calendar tool from inside a course other than the one the event is associated with. Try accessing the Calendar tool from the course the event is associated with. For personal events, access the Calendar tool from the My Institution area. If you entered from the My Institution area and the event does not show up, you may have turned on a filter. Follow the Filtering Calendar Items procedure above to set the filter to “All Events.”

Q: I’d like to create an all-day event. How do I do this?
A: There is no option for all-day events. You can set the start time to 12 am and the end time to 11:55 pm, but there is no way to mark an event with no particular time.

Q: I’d like to create a multi-day event. How do I do this?
A: There’s no option for multi-day events. You can create multiple events that span over a few days, but there is no way to mark an event that spans several days.