Calendar

The Calendar tool lets you view events for your courses and organizations. In addition, you can use it to keep track of personal appointments. The Calendar functions differently depending on how you access it. If you enter the Calendar from the My Institution area, you will see all events for all courses and organizations you are participating in, as well as any personal events you have entered yourself. If you enter the Calendar from within a specific course or organization by clicking on the Calendar link, you will only see events for that course or organization, and you will be unable to see or modify personal events.

From the My Blackboard area, click the Calendar link in the Tools box on the far left.

Switching Between Calendar Views: Click the View Day , View Week , View Month , or View Year tab at the top of the calendar.

Jumping to a Specific Date, Week, or Month

Click the Quick Jump button.
Select the Month, Date, and Year.
Select the type of view you would like to see that date in by selecting the Day , Week , or Month radio buttons.
Scroll down to the bottom and click the Submit button.

Note: The Filtering, Adding Personal Events, Modifying a Personal Event, and Removing Personal Events options are only available if you have entered the Calendar from the My Institution area.

Filtering Calendar Items

To the right of the Add Event and Quick Jump buttons, you will see a Filter icon.
Select event.
Click the Go button.

Adding a Personal Event

Click the Add Event button.
Enter the Event Title and Event Description.
Select the Event Time.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page and click the Submit button.

Modifying a Personal Event

Click the Modify button to the right of the Event Name.
Make changes to event.
Scroll down to the bottom and click the Submit button.

Removing a Personal Event

Click the Remove button to the right of the Event Name.
Click the OK button.

View Options

Week - You are shown the list of all events for the current week. As in the day view, events are shown next to their start time rounded to the earliest half-hour. You may access event details (Date, Start Time, End Time, Category, and Event Description) by clicking on either the name of the event or the calendar icon to the left of the name.

Month - You are shown the current month. The current date will be highlighted in gray. For each date, you are shown only the name of any events taking place that day. You may access event details (Date, Start Time, End Time, Category, and Event Description) by clicking on the name of the event. Clicking on the number of any date will take you to the Day view for that date.

Year - You are shown all dates for the current year. The current date will be highlighted in gray. Dates that have events will appear in red. Clicking on any date link will take you to the day view for that date. Clicking on any month link will take you to the month view for that month.
Choose which setting is best for you and go with it.

Filter Options

All Events - Displays all events.
My Events - Displays only personal events.
Institutional Events - Displays only system-wide events.
Course Events - Displays only events associated with courses.
Events for a Specific Course - Displays only events for that course.
Organization Events - Displays only events associated with organizations.
Events for a Specific Organization - Displays only events for that Organization.

Course Calendar

The Course Calendar, which has the same features as the Calendar found from the Tools box in My Blackboard page, can be found from a course landing page. The only difference is only instructor can add event in Course Calendar. Students can only view.

From a course:

Click Course Tools
Click Course Calendar

You may not find any event in your Course Calendar if your instructor does not use it. Please check with your instructor if your Blackboard course site uses Course Calendar tool.

More Information

Q: I know I have an event today, but it doesn't show up on the calendar. What happened?

A: You may have entered the Calendar from inside a course or organization other than the one the event is associated with. Try entering the Calendar from the course or organization the event is associated with. For personal events, enter from the My Institution area. If you entered from the My Institution area and the event doesn't show up, you may have turned on filtering. Follow the directions above to set filter options, and select "All Events."

Q: I'd like to create an all-day event. How do I do this?

A: There's no option for all-day events. You can set the Start Time to midnight and the end time to 11:55 P.M. , but there's no easy way to mark an event with no particular time.

Q: I'd like to create a multi-day event. How do I do this?

A: There's no option for multi-day events. You can create multiple events that span over days (one ending at 11:55 P.M. and the next beginning at midnight of the next day) but there's no easy way to mark an event that covers several days.