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All items on a Moodle course with dates (e.g. due dates for assignments) appear automatically in the Moodle calendar for that course. Staff can also upload course and group events, such as for field trips and presentations. Each user will see a combined view of all their calendar entries within their My Home page. This shows all the events across all the Moodle courses a user is enrolled on. Lectures and tutorials can either be added manually to the Moodle calendar, or imported via the UCL Common Timetable ical feed. |
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- Navigate to your Moodle course.
- Make sure the calendar block has been added to the left or right column of your course home page. If it's not already there, see how to add the Calendar block here.
- On the Calendar Block, click the month to access the calendar.
- Click the 'Manage subscriptions' button below the calendar displayed in the main area of the page.
- Fill in the fields under Import calendar...
- Enter a name for the calendar - e.g. ECON1001
- Import from: Calendar URL
- Update interval: weekly (you shouldn't need it to update more frequently and this can always be updated manually anywayor if really necessary daily (more frequently than that and the processes begin to bloat the Moodle logs - you can always update it manually if you need to)
- Paste in the URL to the calendar - see below for options.
- Choose the type of event: Course for course wide event, Group for group events
- If you have chosen a group event, choose the group these events apply to. E.g. ECON1001 Tutorial group A
- Click Add.
- Moodle will tell you how many events it has imported. Events will be updated automatically on a weekly basis from then on.
To manually update an existing ical feed and bring in changed events or remove it completely
- Navigate to your Moodle course.
- Make sure the calendar block has been added to the left or right column of your course home page. If it's not already there, see how to add the Calendar block here.
- On the Calendar Block, click the month to access the calendar.
- Click the 'Manage subscriptions' button below the calendar displayed in the main area of the page.
- To the right of each calendar feed you will see an update button, which will save any changes you make to the update frequency and will also check the feed and bring in any new events.
- To the right of each calendar feed you will see a remove button. Click this to remove the feed from your Moodle course. Note: it will not prompt you to confirm removal, so be careful clicking this.
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You now have the ability to subscribe to module timetables in the UCL Common Timetable via the iCalendar feed. This is supported by Portico Services (timetable-help@ucl.ac.uk).
You can subscribe to:
- all events - including any events that a subset of students take;
- only those events that apply to the entire module cohort;
- or particular module subgroups (which might be shown to groups of students in Moodle).
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