The Events Calendar widget helps you promote your school’s events and attract more students. It can also display event dates relevant to each student, making it a clever tool for personalized engagement!
In this article, we will learn how to add and customize the Events Calendar widget for your website.
Steps to Add the Events Calendar
1. Go to Website→ Design → Edit Website.
2. Choose the page you want to edit from the Pages Manager.
3. Click on the +Add section to add a pre-built Calendar Section (that already includes a calendar widget), or click on the + icon/Add Widget if you want to add a Calendar widget individually as an element in your existing sections.
Customizing the Calendar's Appearance
If you wish to make changes to the Calendar appearance, click on Edit Tabs to adjust the below fields on the right side form:
Display the Calendar Events for already registered or new users
You can host plenty of events through your courses. If you wish to display these events you can choose to show the events of all courses or choose from a Custom List.
You can also choose different settings for Logged-in and Logged-out users.
Logged-in Users
There are five calendar events that you can show for users who have already registered in your school and have created a student account (not necessarily purchased a course):
- 1:1 Session & Group Session learning activities via the Calendly integration (for scheduled events).
- Zoom or Webex live meetings or webinars.
- Drip Feed course sections will be released/unlocked in the future to your users.
- Subscription Trial Expiration deadline (if your student has an active subscription trial).
More specifically, you have the option to show the events for all logged-in users, only enrolled users, or hide the events for all logged-in users.
Add to Calendar option
With this option, you can allow your users to include their meetings in their personal calendars too. In order to enable this, you should click on the events widget and click on "show" under the display options.
The available calendar options are the following:
- Apple
- Outlook.com
- Microsoft 365
- Yahoo
- iCalendar
Once the desired option is clicked, the users will be redirected to their respective Calendars to add the event.
Please note that the "Add to Calendar" option will only be available to users who are both logged in and enrolled in the course of their choice. If these conditions are not met, the option to add the event to their calendar will not be accessible.Logged-out Users
There are three calendar events that you can display on your Landing page for new users who have not signed up in your school and you would like to let them know about potential events included in your courses:
- Zoom or Webex live meetings or webinars.
- Drip Feed course sections will be released/unlocked in the future to your users.
More specifically, you have the option to show or hide the events for all logged-out users.
-For File Assignments, only file assignments with deadlines will be shown as events in the calendar, supported only for the Legacy Assignments.