New UNT Event Calendar

By Claudia Lynch, Benchmarks Online Editor

Public Affairs and Information Services has announced a new and improved UNT Event Calendar. It was designed to provide an improved tool to aid in communication between departments, scheduling of events, and event publicity and marketing. You can access the calendar on the Web at www.unt.edu/events The following features make the new event calendar particularly useful:

• An improved user interface that visually displays events at a glance on a monthly basis for information or scheduling.

• The ability to preview scheduled events up to a year in advance.

• The ability to show only a specific category of events such as "Only UNT Events", "UNT and Metroplex Events Combined", or "Academic Dates".

• A user-friendly preference option that allows a user to set the calendar to display only the events that a UNT community member is interested in viewing.

• An easy data entry system to add appropriate new events to the calendar.

• A Master Calendar Coordinator who checks all new events before they are scheduled in the calendar and checks for possible conflicts with other large events.

• Icons incorporated into the calendar that show "heavy expected attendance" or "traffic warnings," which allow a scheduler to pick the most appropriate dates for new events.

• The ability to integrate events scheduled for the Web Event Calendar with the events calendar on the monitors located throughout the university.

• An online reporting function that allows a user to generate a report of UNT events throughout a specific time period.

• A "Help" link that will explain to the user how to use the calendar.