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Regarding the Course Calendar Feature
Hello Community, We are fairly new users to Brightspace. A couple instructors who are early adopters have some questions regarding the functionality of the Calendar tool. Rather that trying to rearticulate their comments, I'm going to provide the words below. I would appreciate any guidance that you can provide with this.…
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The Scheduler tool
I am trying to access the "Scheduler tool" for a course, but all I see is calendar, where do I find that tool? Thanks, Len
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Can you create custom institutional calendars for different groups?
We would like to use the institutional calendar to highlight different events for specific groups, such as showing student events only to students, or workshop opportunities to faculty. It doesn't look like there's a way to restrict individual events in the main institution calendar. Is there any other way that we might be…
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Commencing date for online meeting schedule
When creating or editing an online meeting schedule, there is only an option for an end date, I cannot set a commencing date. I want to create a block period limited to the middle weeks of a session and allow students to make their booking from the commencement of the session.
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How can you clear the calendar dates?
I know you can use the column on Manage Dates but when we copy the course from semester to semester, the dates do not show up checked on Managed Dates. Instructors are having to go to the Calendar and make changes. Very time consuming. Thank you for your ideas. Linda Reed, Instructional Designer
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Calendar entry not showing
I've created an entry on the calendar using the calendar widgit which shows on the home page on the widgit. When I click and go into the calendar, the event isn't there. Do I need to add my event in both - are they not the same thing?
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Can you add an event to a school org calendar that would display on all child course calendars?
I want to add one event to a school calendar that will display to all courses that are child org's under that school. Or can you only create an event in each of the course calendars?
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Can external calendars be imported to Brightspace?
Hi, A user has queried me if there is a way to populate the Brightspace Calendar with our institution's module calendars and lab groups automatically. Can external calendars be imported to Brightspace? Any assistance is appreciated. Regards, Colm
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Calendar Tool- defaults to last course calendar accessed
Hi We have a lot of new faculty and some are struggling with the Calendar Tool. When going into the Calendar Tool, they access All Calendars and select/load their Calendar for their course (e.g.Course A) they want to edit. If they going into another course (eg. Course B), and want to make edits in that course B calendar,…
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Correct calendar synching
I copied a course from my first 8-weeks to my second 8-weeks section. While I did change the due dates of assignments in the publisher website and the dates followed through in the LMS modules, the calendar still shows the incorrect due dates for assignments. How do I get D2L to only reflect the publisher dates and or…
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How do you share homework with your students?
I would like some input from you guys on how you share homework with your students, i.e. "Read chapter 1-5 before the lecture on May 5th". Right now, most of our teachers put it in the description for the lecture event in the calendar, but the default calendar view will hide the description, plus it is hard for the…