Step-By-Step
Editing Your Personal Calendar
(Text version)

1. Blackboard provides all users with a Calendar function. The Calendar function serves 3 purposes.

• First, it allows Blackboard Administrators to post Calendar items that appear on all user's calendars system-wide.
• Second, it allows instructors to post Calendar items that appear on the calendar of students enrolled in their course site.
• Third, it allows individual students and instructors to post Calendar items that appear only in their own personal calendar.

2. To post an item in your personal calendar:

• Login to Blackboard as usual.
• Click on the "Calendar" link located on your Blackboard Home page. This will display the "My Calendar - View By Day" form for the current day.
  
• To view event items, use the arrow icons located to the left and right of the date to move forward or backward through the calendar. You can also use the tabs to view by week, month or year. You can also click on the "Quick Jump" button at the top of the calendar, choose a date then click on submit. This will display the calendar form for that date.
  
• To add an event, click on the "Add Event" button located at the top of the calendar. This will display the "Add Calendar Event" form
• Under section 1, fill in the information you want displayed in your calendar.
  
• Under section 2, use the dropdown boxes to choose the date, start time and end time for the event posting. The start and end time cannot be the same.
• Click on "Submit" at the bottom of the page. A receipt will be displayed telling you that your calendar has been updated. Click "ok". This will return you to your calendar. You can use the view calendar methods to locate the event in your calendar.
  
• When the start date you selected arrives, the event will be posted on your Blackboard home page in the box marked "Calendar". On the following day, the event will disappear from the box marked "Calendar" on your Blackboard home page.
• Items posted to the course calendar by an instructor and items posted to the system-wide calendar by the Blackboard administrator will also appear in the box marked "Calendar" on your home page.

If you have any questions or comments regarding this Step-By-Step procedure contact the Tufts Blackboard Administrator at: nhirsig@tufts.edu