What is the Calendar?
One of the challenges facing both students and instructors is keeping track of all of the assignments planned throughout the term. Instructors are teaching multiple courses and students are learning in multiple courses. Every course has its own timeline for when things need to be done. The Calendar helps everyone stay on schedule and up to date.
In this article you will learn about the Astria LMS Calendar.
Calendar Overview
The Calendar in the Astria LMS is a global feature, meaning you can see all of your assignments from all of your courses in one place. If your Calendar becomes too crowded, you can filter the number of events listed on your Calendar by selecting or deselecting courses in the Sidebar [1]. Favorite customized courses will always appear at the top of the user’s calendar list.
The Calendar automatically syncs with other features in the Astria LMS, such as Assignments, Syllabus, and Grades, so if you create, change, or delete the due date of an Assignment on the Calendar, it will show up in all the others and vice versa. You can change dates easily by dragging and dropping assignments from one date to another [2].
The Calendar is used for reminding students of graded Assignments with specific due dates. To provide students with detailed descriptions of how synchronous class time will be used, consider using Pages or customizing the Course Home Page.
When would I use the Calendar as an instructor?
As an instructor, use the Calendar to:
- View and create activities in your course as well as events and personal reminders; you can also filter the calendar view to only see specific calendars
- Quickly add Assignments to a blank course. Fill in the details of those Assignments later
- Adjust the dates of Assignments that have been imported from previous terms. Astria LMS makes it easy to drag and drop events across multiple months
- Copy the iCal feed for all of your courses and import it to your preferred personal Calendar, such as Google or Outlook
- Schedule appointments with students using the Scheduler (optional feature)
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