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The URL pattern (for the UAT system) is as follows.
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ALL events in a single module (lectures and practicals/seminars/etc...):
Events might include full class lectures, as well as any module sub group activities, such as practicals and seminars that only a sub group of the students attend.
http://timetable-uat.ucl.ac.uk/ics/module/ECON1001
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ALL events in multiple modules (lectures and practicals/seminars/etc...):
Events might include full class lectures, as well as any module sub group activities, such as practicals and seminars that only a sub group of the students attend.
http://timetable-uat.ucl.ac.uk/ics/module/ECON1001+ECON1005
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It gets a little more complicated if you want to limit the feed to just a subset of the events. You add each subset - be it full cohort events (which are indicated with a hyphen) or subgroups - by separating with a pipe.
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surrounding the sub group names with brackets
Full class activities in a single module (such as lectures and practicals that everyone undertakes) - e.g. no module sub group activities like smaller group practicals are included:
Only those events that all students in the module undertake appear using this format.
http://timetable-uat.ucl.ac.uk/ics/module/ECON1001(-)
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Full class activities (e.g. lectures) and the (particular module sub group) practicals (PRAC1& PRAC2) for ECON1001 and
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the (full class) lectures for ECON1002 you'd use:
You can mix and match the above formats to show a mixture of full class activities and sub group activitie.
http://timetable-uat.ucl.ac.uk/ics/module/ECON1001(-)(PRAC1)(PRAC2)+ECON1002(-)
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Note: A link generator to simplify the generation of these URLs is in development and will be available shortly...
To update an existing ical feed and bring in changed events or remove it completely
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Note: If you need to alter the URL you will need to remove the old entry and create a new one, as only the update frequency can be changed after creation.
Terminology
Module Sub Groups - CMIS term for groups of students within a module who undertake particular seminars as a sub-group of the wider module cohort.
Debugging
To view the ical data file in a webbrowser the URL is:
http://timetable-uat.ucl.ac.uk/ics/module/ECON1001/format/text