🚩 Required Field
An Event Date is required for all events and will remain red until a date has been selected.
Please note the Start Time of your event when appropriate.
Additional Options
Only Available to Calendar Admins
☑️ All Day
Checking the All Day box will remove the Start Time field from your event.
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Repeating Event Tips
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Summary
Only Available to Calendar Admins
The Event Summary is displayed prominently in event listings, allowing users to quickly identify events they might be interested in. For quick comprehension, please limit summaries to 1-2 sentences.
See the Event Description field for more space to share expanded details about your event.
Location
Locations are buildings, common spaces, theaters, athletic fields, outdoor spaces, and more.
Key UConn Locations have been preloaded into the Events Calendar for quality purposes and ease of use. You can find these locations by simply beginning to type in the name of the location.
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Add New Location
Only Available to Calendar Admins
If your event’s Location has not been preloaded into the Events Calendar, but you think it would be a useful location for the community, please email eventscalender@uconn.edu to make a request.
Calendar administrators can also choose to add a new location for their events and calendar.
Room Number or Location Detail
Please use this field to specify the room number, room name, or additional location details for your event.
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Reservations are required for most spaces. Please visit the EMS scheduling system or check with the appropriate department. |
Event Description
Use the Event Description field to share all of the details about your event. This field includes a text editor with a toolbar to:
Create headers and paragraph text
Apply bold, italic, and underlined styles
Adjust alignment
Add tables & bulleted lists
Insert images, accordions, video, and links
Details you may want to include:
Event description
Speakers or participant names
Sponsoring departments
Available accommodations
Images or a highlight reel
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Please note, directly copying and pasting special symbols into the event fields is not supported and will result in display errors. The Events Calendar supports LaTeX and MathJax for displaying special symbols commonly used in mathematical equations. This syntax must be used for any special mathematical symbols that are input into event fields. Please use \( … \) for in-line math delimiters and \[ … \] for displayed mathematics. |
Contact Information
Please include Contact Information for your event. At a minimum, please include an email. You may also consider including:
Key event contact(s)
Phone number
Additional email addresses
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Please hyperlink email addresses and phone numbers using the “Insert Link” feature. |
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Event Cost
Only Available to Calendar Admins
The Event Cost field includes the following options:
Free
Event Cost
Suggested Donation
Other
Except for selecting Free, all cost options will provide appropriate fields for you to insert a cost amount or additional text.
RSVP
Only Available to Calendar Admins
The Events Calendar includes RSVP functionality. It does not collect payments, but administrators can add instructions and links to the UConn Marketplace, for instance. Guide coming soon.
Sharing & Privacy
Only Available to Calendar Admins
By default, all events added are made available to everyone. If you want to limit who can see your event, you can change the settings to:
This Group Only (i.e. Admins/Users logged into your calendar)
Any Logged-In User
Anyone with a Link
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