Calendar
From the global Calendar, you can see all your upcoming due dates and meetings across your courses—all in one place.
In your calendar, find this event information:
- Office hours, course schedule, and events: These appointments appear automatically on the calendar when you add them to a course.
- Due dates: When you create content with a due date, it appears automatically in the calendar.
Choose your view
- Select Day or Month to zoom in on one day's daily tasks or plan for the weeks ahead.
- Select Due Dates to focus only on your upcoming deadlines
- Select the Calendar Settings gear icon in the upper-right corner to choose the calendars you want to see
Add or edit an event
From the global calendar, you can add an event to your personal calendar or to a course calendar. Click on the New Event plus sign in the upper-right, and then select Add Event. You can then choose to leave the event on your personal calendar, or select a course from the dropdown menu. Enter the event details and click Save.
Share your calendar
Your schedule is a mix of academic and personal commitments. To help keep up with everything you've got going on, you can put everything on one calendar.
You can share your Blackboard Learn calendar with external services so course events appear with other events.
You can't share calendars for individual courses. When you share your calendar, events for all of your courses appear.
- Select Calendar from the base navigation bar.
- Select the Calendar Settings button.
- From the Calendar Settings screen, select the dots button and select Share Calendar.
- Copy the calendar link. Share the URL only with trusted sources.
When you connect your Blackboard Learn calendar to an external calendar, all course events appear one year in the past and into the future.
Add calendar to iCal
To share your Blackboard Learn calendar with iCal, you'll add it as a calendar subscription.
- Open iCal on your Apple device.
- Go to File > New Calendar Subscription.
- Paste the Blackboard Learn calendar link and select Subscribe.
- Enter the calendar's name and adjust other settings. In the Location field, select iCloud if you want the calendar to appear on your other authenticated Apple devices such as iPhone or iPad.
- Select OK to finish set up.
More on subscribing to calendars on a Mac
Add calendar to Google calendar
Share your Blackboard Learn calendar with Google calendar to view all events in one place.
- Open your Google calendar in a browser.
- Under Other calendars, select Add other calendars, and then select From URL.
- Paste the Blackboard Learn calendar link and select Add calendar to save.
- Open the calendar's settings to rename it and adjust sharing and notification settings.
More on adding external calendars to Google calendar
Add an external calendar
You may also add an external calendar to your Blackboard calendar.
- Select Calendar from the base navigation bar.
- Select the Calendar Settings button.
- From the Calendar Settings screen, select the dots button and select Add Calendar.
- In the window, drag and drop or upload the calendar file. Only ICS files are supported.
- Select Add Calendar to finish and import events.
When you add your external calendar to Blackboard Learn, events appear one year in the past and into the future. The events are grouped under My Personal Calendar to show that you added them yourself. The events don't reference the calendar or the name of the file you uploaded.
You can edit or delete events you upload just like any other event you add.
