Pedagogical Tips

1. Many instructors use the Calendar as a course organizer, outlining each day's activities and directing students to content documents located in a content module (Web Resources Staff, Georgia State University, 2002).
2. Some students may want to use this as a personal organizer by making private entries that provide personal organization, appointments and reminders. All of the private entries and public entries entered into a particular course calendar will also be added to the student's global calendar (linked to from the myWebCT page).
3. Allowing students to make public entries can accommodate communication regarding activities such as group meetings, sign-ups with an instructor, and scheduled chats.
4. Use the Calendar consistently; otherwise, it will become ineffective. Define the role of the Calendar in the course to students and then be consist in its use.

Technical Tips

1. You can download calendar entries into a Palm Datebook. (See the Calendar Help pages for detailed instructions.)
2. You can use HTML code in any of the fields in a calendar entry. (The WebCT HTML editor is not available in the Calendar.)
3. If your calendar entries in two courses are going to be the same except for dates, download the calendar entries from one of the courses into a text (.txt) file, change the dates in the text file, and then import the revised text file into the second course.