Calendar Settings
The Settings screen for the Calendar feature allows a user with Can Admin privileges to manage the following settings:
Specify the default calendar view (month, week, day, or list)
Show My Calendar by default (yes or no)
Managing Calendar Tags
Calendar tags allow you to categorize and easily search for related calendar items. For example, all athletic calendar items can have an “Athletic” calendar tag applied to them. If you are looking to view all Athletic calendar items, you can easily search for those calendar items within a Calendar instance using the filtering option.
Calendar tags can be created, edited, and deleted from the Calendar Tags screen by any user with permission to manage tags. In the Manage Calendar Tags table, the Tagged Calendars column lets you quickly view which calendars have each tag set as a default calendar item tag.
The Calendar Tags screen also lets you mark tags as inactive or active. Active calendar tags can be added to calendars and calendar items. Inactive tags cannot be added to any new calendars or calendar items but will remain on calendars and calendars items it is already associated with. You will still be able to search for calendar items using inactive tags.
For the Calendar feature instance in your course context (or for any other that you are in charge of), you can choose whether the instance, in its default view, will display calendar items in a monthly, weekly, or daily calendar style, or in a list display.
Log in to the portal as a member of the Administrators role or someone with Can Admin privileges in the appropriate context and navigate to the page that contains the Calendar feature instance.
Click the wrench icon in the upper-right corner of the page.
The admin bar displays.
Click the Settings link in the admin bar.
The system displays the Settings screen.
Select the Calendar feature from the drop-down list of features. (Note: If the feature is on a page of its own, this drop-down will not appear, and you can skip this step.)
The screen updates to show settings for the Calendar feature.
Under the Default View Type heading, choose one of the following options:
Month view
Week view
Day view
List view
Click Save Changes.
By default, a user’s My Calendar feed will appear overlaid on top of each calendar that user is viewing. You can change this behavior for a particular calendar so that My Calendar does not display by default whenever users view the calendar.
To specify the default view of the Calendar feature instance:
Log in to the portal as a member of the Administrators role or someone with Can Admin privileges in the appropriate context, and navigate to the page that contains the Calendar feature instance.
Click the wrench icon in the upper-right corner of the page.
The admin bar displays.
Click the Settings link in the admin bar.
The system displays the Settings screen.
Select the Calendar feature from the drop-down list of features. (Note: If the feature is on a page of its own, this drop-down will not appear, and you can skip this step.)
The screen updates to show settings for the Calendar feature.
Under the Show “My Calendar” by default heading, choose one of the following options:
Yes—With this selected, every user who views the calendar will see his or her My Calendar feed overlaid on top of the calendar.
No—With this selected, a My Calendar feed will not appear by default for any user who views the calendar. Users will still be able to show My Calendar by selecting it in the search filter, as explained in Show or Hide My Calendar.
Click Save Changes.
Navigate to the Calendar feature instance that includes the calendar you wish to import.
Click the Manage calendar tags link.
The Calendar Tags screen displays.
In the field in upper-right corner of the Manage Calendar Tags table, enter the tag name and click Create New Tag.
The new calendar tag is added.
Navigate to the Calendar feature instance that includes the calendar you wish to import.
Click the Manage calendar tags link.
The Calendar Tags screen displays.
Find the calendar tag that you would like to edit.
Click the Edit
icon next to the tag name.The Tag Name field becomes editable.
In the Tag Name field, edit the name of the tag.
Click Save.
The calendar tag name is changed.
Navigate to the Calendar feature instance that includes the calendar you wish to import.
Click the Manage calendar tags link.
The Calendar Tags screen displays.
Find the calendar tag that you would like to delete.
In the Delete column of the calendar tag’s row, click the Delete
icon.A pop-up appears confirming that you want to delete the tag.
Click Confirm delete.
The calendar tag is deleted.
Navigate to the Calendar feature instance that includes the calendar you wish to import.
Click the Manage calendar tags link.
The Calendar Tags screen displays.
Find the calendar tag that you would like to make active or inactive.
To make the tag active, in the Active column of the calendar tag’s row, toggle the switch to Yes to make the tag active.
To make the tag inactive, toggle the switch to No. A pop-up appears asking if you would like to make the tag inactive.
To confirm you would like to make it inactive, click Make Inactive.
To make the tag active again, toggle the switch back to Yes.