Step 7: Add an event to the Calendar

Great work! Now that you have customized your Course Navigation and Course Home Page in Step 6, let's start adding Events to the Calendar. Events can be used to remind students about extracurricular activities or to prompt students to prepare for their class by completing specific readings. In this step, we will create an Event to remind students to attend a special guest lecture.

This video will explain what you need to do to complete this step:

The pages that follow will give you a more detailed explanation of:

how to add an event to the course calendar,
how the calendar works, and
the difference between Assignments and Events.

Read these lessons, watch the videos, and then proceed to Step 8. You'll have an opportunity to try this yourself at the end of Module C.