Manuals
How do I use the Calendar?
The Calendar is your personal Brightspace calendar. The Calendar Widget can be found on the UU home page and on the Course Home of each course. The calendar of a specific course can be found on the home page of that course. Deadlines are also indicated in the Calendar. The Calendar is always visible on the right-hand side of the course Home Page, below the Announcements, this is the Calendar Widget.
The Calendar widget consists of two parts:
- Calendar: this shows the calendar view when the widget is closed. Click the arrow to open the full calendar. The current date is displayed in bold, and events are indicated by a blue dot below the date.
- Upcoming events: this is a list of upcoming events. Click the arrow to view them.
If you click on the arrow next to the calendar, there are three options:
- Go to Calendar
- Subscribe
- Collapse this widget
- If you choose ‘Go to Calendar’, you will see the following screen:
With the grey buttons on the top it is possible to change the display mode.
- Use Day, Week of Month, to group events on the basis of daily, weekly or monthly.
- Use the List display to sort on Assignments, Checklists, Discussions, Grades, Materials, Modules, Quizzes and Surveys.
- When using the Agenda View, it is possible to sort events by Date (sorts events by date with the first occurring at the top), Course (sorts events by course), or Category (sorts events by category). Use the arrows on the left to determine which day’s events you are seeing , keep in mind that you will only see events that happen on the two days selected at the top.
With the mini-calender on the right side you can navigate to specific days.
Just like the Calendar Widget on the homepage, this only shows the events of specific courses, or all of them if you navigate to the calender using your personal homepage.
Use the Tasks window to create and keep track of personal tasks.
- If you click in the Calendar widget on ‘Subscribe’, you will see the following screen:
In this screen, it is possible to download the calendar with all events of all courses and implement it in an external calendar. You can download the calendar of one specific course by clicking on ’All Calendars and Tasks’ and then selecting a specific course.
- If you choose ‘Collapse this Widget’ in the Calendar widget you will make the calendar widget close itself and become small. If you want to make it large again, click ‘Expand this Widget’ to make the widget large again.
