ATMeyer Traing offers a calendar for creating and sharing events. As an instructor, click on the "Calendar" link on the right hand side bar (1). Alternatively, you can click on the "Add event" link to begin configuring a new event.
As an Instructor you can view two events types: conference (1) and generic events (2). As a learner you can additionally view course expiration events.
You are able to create generic events, which are either recurring (daily (3) or weekly (4)) or one-time event (2) and you can also specify the audience of each event. If you don't define an audience, the event is considered private (3). Click on a day cell and then on "Add event" button to create a new event (5).
On the top of the calendar there are the "next" and "previous" month/week buttons, the "today" button to get back to the current view and the "month" "week" view buttons. Additionally you can click on the "Export" button to get all calendar events on iCalendar format file (.ics) and import them to your favorite calendar application.
On the week view you can see the events placed on each day based on their start/end time. On both views (week/month), you can click on an event and a popover will appear with a brief description (1). As an instructor, click on the "Edit" button (2) to edit the event. Export functionality is also available per event. Click on the "Add event to your calendar" (3) and you have the option to export the event to Google calendar, iCalendar (.ics) file, Outlook.com and Yahoo! calendar.
Finally if you just want to change the date/time of the event, you are allowed to move the event. Click and drag the event on a specific day cell in month view and the starting date of the event will change accordingly. Click and drag the event on a specific day/time cell on the week view and the date as well as the starting time of the event will change accordingly. Have in mind that you are not allow to move an event on a past date/time.
When creating or editing an event you must type the name of the event and set the starting date, time and the duration using the duration bar (1).
On the "Audience" (2) field you can select who can view your event. You can select course users, group users or both. Event's audience is not updated automatically when users are joining/leaving a group or a course. In such cases you can update event's audience by editing the event and just clicking on update button.
If you want to keep this event private until publication, select "This is a private event". On the "Description" field (3) type a brief description up to 255 characters.
If this is a recurring event (4), click on the check box and additional options will appear to setup the event. Drag the first bar to set the periodicity of the event and click on the respective button if you want this event to repeat every N days or every N weeks (N is configured by dragging the bar). Bellow you can set the number of the event occurrences, or else after how many occurrences the event will stop appearing.
For example consider that you want to create 5 events that will occur every two weeks on Friday. Click on first Friday day cell on the month or week view and then on the "Add event" button. Fill all the required fields, and on the "Repeat every" bar set 2 and click on the week button. Then on the "Ends after" bar set 5.
