{"id":625,"date":"2012-05-24T08:49:48","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T12:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/technology\/?p=1825"},"modified":"2012-05-24T08:57:33","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T12:57:33","slug":"moodle-calendar-helpful-tool-for-online-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/2012\/05\/24\/moodle-calendar-helpful-tool-for-online-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Moodle Calendar:  Helpful tool for online courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/technology\/files\/2012\/05\/calendar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1826\" title=\"calendar\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/technology\/files\/2012\/05\/calendar-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Calendar\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>The Moodle calendar is one of my favorite features, and especially helpful for Elon students partaking in the summer online program.<\/p>\n<p>If you use the standard Moodle assignments and add a due date to the course activity, Moodle automatically propagates that information to the course calendar block as an event!<\/p>\n<p>The calendar automatically keeps track of and displays all course related due dates (projects, quizzes, chat room appointments, assignments).\u00a0 In addition, students can add personal events to the calendar and customize it with user options (i.e. the time display, upcoming events, and first day of the week).<\/p>\n<p>A calendar may be included in a course by <a title=\"Adding a calendar block\" href=\"http:\/\/docs.moodle.org\/22\/en\/Calendar_block\">adding the Calendar block<\/a>.\u00a0 <a title=\"Add a calendar block\" href=\"http:\/\/moodleanswers.com\/index.php\/instructor-resources\/general\/59-adding-calendar-events\">Additional events can be created by following these steps. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Flickr user\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/caroslines\/3233935386\/\">Image by Flickr user Caro\u2019s Lines<\/a> \/ <a title=\"Creative Commons License\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/2.0\/deed.en\">Creative Commons licensed BY-NC-SA 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/technology\/files\/2012\/02\/cheri1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-764\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"cheri\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/technology\/files\/2012\/02\/cheri1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"127\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a>About the author<\/h2>\n<p><a title=\"Cheri Crabb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.elon.edu\/directories\/profile\/?user=ccrabb\">Cheri Crabb<\/a>, PhD, Academic Technology Consultant with TLT, has a career in academia focused on instructional design and development using integrated electronic media systems for blended learning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Moodle calendar is one of my favorite features, and especially helpful for Elon students partaking in the summer online program. If you use the standard Moodle assignments and add a due date to the course activity, Moodle automatically propagates <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/2012\/05\/24\/moodle-calendar-helpful-tool-for-online-courses\/\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23032,21426,19535,568,795],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calendar","category-moodle","category-moodle-musings","category-online","category-teaching-and-learning"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elon.edu\/teaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}