The calendar displays a consolidated view of all your institution, course, organization, and personal calendar events. You can view events by day, week, or month. You can view and organize upcoming and past events into categories.

You can also set the first day of your week by changing your personal settings in My Blackboard.

Course calendar events appear to all members of the course. Common entries include upcoming tests, due dates for assignments, or special lectures. Course items with due dates automatically appear in the course calendar. Only instructors may create course calendar events.

The Calendar Interface

Click Calendar in the top navigation menu as shown in the image below.

  


A.   View events by day or month.
B.   Navigate to another month.
C.   Click the plus (+) to create a new event.

Students cannot create an event on a course and institution calendar. Instructors cannot create an event for the institution calendar unless they have administrator privileges.

D.   Select the date and time, and add a description:


Recurring Events

Optionally, you can make events repeat by selecting the Repeat check box. Additional options appear that allow you to create multiple events based on a repeating pattern.

Specifics on Repeating Events and Limitations

 
 
Repeat Options Daily, Weekly, and Monthly Supported
Daily End after X number of times -OR- on a particular date.
Weekly Repeat Day of the week supported. End after X number of times -OR- on a particular date.
Monthly Repeat Day of the month (1-31) or day of week (first Sunday, second Monday, and so on) supported. End after X number of times -OR- on a particular date.
Bulk Add (Series) Create a series with the repeat options.
Bulk Delete (Series) Delete the entire series created using the repeat options.
Edit an Instance Edit an instance of the series. If you change the date/time of the instance, that particular instance has a “broken” icon to indicate that it no longer conforms with the original series rules.

Changing the name or description of an instance does not break the instance from the series.
Edit Series (Known Limitation) At this time, you cannot edit the series. After you create a series, you can bulk delete or make changes to individual instance.

Edit or Delete an Event

On the calendar, navigate to the date of the event in the main view to perform the following tasks:


  • Press 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 is associated with remain the same.
  • Press and drag an event from the main view to another date on the smaller monthly view to change the date as illustrated in the image below.
  • Click the event to edit, and click the trash can to delete it.