University calendar and web updates

Several new features have been rolled out across the University’s websites over July. These include a new central calendar, an enhancement to the header on the websites and extra features in the room booking list.

Calendar

The University has a new central calendar. The calendar will allow staff and students to find key University dates relevant to them in a central location. The first release of the general staff and student calendars went live in the week beginning 22 July, which show different sub-calendars relevant to staff and students.

Each College will also be getting their own version of the calendar.

Benefits:

  • Administration of the different sub calendars can be given to the staff responsible for managing those dates so that dates are current and can be relied on.
  • Students and staff can subscribe to the sub-calendars that are applicable to them and view them within their calendar of choice such as Outlook (All dates will be kept up to date automatically).
  • There will be a central place to view current dates rather than needing to go and find them on different web pages, team sites, Excel documents and PDFs.

More coming soon:

  • More sub-calendars are being planned and will be released as they become available. These include dates for researchers, prospective student events, OCME marketing campaigns, SAS schedule of activities and finance dates.

If staff wish to request a new sub-calendar, add an event or report any issues they can use the online feedback form.

How to use the calendar:

  • Choose to view the calendar entries by month, year, day or in a list using the view selectors.
  • By default you will be viewing ‘All’ sub calendars at once but you can click on individual sub calendars to turn their visibility on or off.
  • You can filter events that are College or campus specific using the filters on the left side.
  • If you want to add the dates into your own calendar (such as Outlook or Google) you can subscribe to a sub-calendar feed from the menu on the top right. There is more information on the teamup website.

New header

A thin header has been added to the top of the flinders.edu.au, staff, student and Library websites.

This will:

  • assist with increasing the visibility of these different websites
  • make it clearer if you’re viewing students, staff or library websites
  • allow easier navigation between the different websites

Improvements to the room booking list

The room booking list has been enhanced to include audio and video features of the rooms that can be booked at each campus.

The features listed include:

  • whether there is a screen or projector
  • if there is an in-room PC
  • BYOD connection
  • lecture capture facilities
  • web conferencing facilities
  • video conferencing facilities
  • number of lapel microphones
  • number of handheld microphones
Posted in
Information and Digital Services