Using the Calendar & Notifications for Instructors

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Find and navigate the calendar

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Global Calendar link

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.

The global calendar can be found using the Calendar link on the navigation menu.

In your calendar, find this event information:

• Office hours. On the global calendar, Instructors can click the plus sign button to Add Events, Edit Scheduled Events, and Add Office Hours.

• Due dates. When an instructor user adds a due date to an item in Blackboard, due dates appear automatically on the global calendar.

Blackboard Original Course calendar

You can access the calendar from your course’s Tool Panel or Calendar tool link.

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Add an Event

To add an event to the calendar:

1. Select the plus (+) button or select a specific date to create an event.

2. Type the New Event Name.

3. Choose a calendar to associate the event with, such as your personal calendar.

4. Select the Start and End times.

5. Type the Event Description. Event descriptions have a 4,000-character limit.

6. Select Save.

Remove or Edit an Event

1. Find the date of the event in the main calendar view.

2. Select the event to edit or delete it.

3. Select and drag an event to another date in the main view to change the date of the event. The time of the event and calendar it’s associated with stays the same.

4. You can also select and drag an event from the main view to another date on the smaller monthly view to change the date.

Notification settings

On your activity stream's Notification Settings panel, you can choose which notifications you receive about activity in all your Original and Ultra courses:

• Activity stream: Choose which activities appear on your Streampage.

• Email: If you want to receive email notifications, add an email address to your profile page. Then, choose how often and which activities you want to receive notifications for.

• SMS: If you want to receive SMS text messages on your mobile phone, add a phone number to your profile page. Then, choose how often and which activities you want to receive notifications for.

• Push notifications: Messages pop up on your mobile device if you have the Blackboard app for students installed. You can select which notifications are sent to your device.