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Overview of Import Events
This option allows you to add multiple events to the calendar at one time.
You can do this by importing a comma-delimited text file containing the
calendar events. We recommend that you start with a template text file, obtained by using the Compile option of the Calendar tool. To use it create the file and download it.
The text file describing the calendar events is structured such that each
event description begins with a colon. The event descriptions have the
following structure.
:date,summary,URL, ,start time(hh:mm),end time(hh:mm),detail
Only the date and summary fields are required. If the other fields are blank, the descriptions simply have no space between the commas. The detail section can contain multiple lines.
Note: The extra field between the URL and start time is required for internal links. However, this field is very complicated, and should be left blank when importing calendar information.
Here are a few sample entries:
:5/3/1998,Midterm,,,,,The Midterm covers chapters 1 through 12.
Study hard!
:20/4/1998,Online Assignment,http://somewhere.edu/homework.html,00:00,23:59,
Click on the link for this event to find the web-page with your homework.
It is due at the end of the day.
- To use the Import feature of the Calendar, click Import in the Calendar toolbar.
The following screen will be displayed in the top frame.
Figure 1 Calendar Import screen
- Click Cancel to return to the calendar for the
current month without making any changes.
- Enter the file path of the text file on your course, or choose
Browse... to open up the
WebCT Browser,
to select the file. You must choose a file from your Course
Files on the server. If the file you want to use is on your own computer, you must first upload it to the server. Uploading can be done with the File Manager
Once the file has been selected, choose Continue to proceed with
the import. A confirmation screen will be displayed in the upper frame,
summarizing the events that will be added:
Figure 2 Confirmation of Calendar Import screen
Choose Continue only if the summarized events look correct. If the events
described by the confirmation screen do not look like the events you were
expecting in the imported file, either the wrong file was chosen, or
the file does not have the correct structure. Press Cancel to exit the confirmation screen and return to the current calendar month without making any changes.
The events described by the imported file will be added to the Calendar and the display in the top frame will return to the main calendar view.
- Importing calendar events is a great way to copy calendar events between
different courses. Just compile and download events from one course, and
import them into another course's calendar.
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