Calendar

Calendar is where you put study sessions, exams, deadlines and reminders. It has a month, week and day grid, lists of upcoming and past events, and a countdown to your next exam. You need an account to use it.

The page at a glance

• New event (top right) opens a quick form for a plain event.
• The Exams and events panel shows the Next exam countdown and your other upcoming exams, then the Upcoming and Past lists.
• The grid shows your events in Month, Week or Day view. Use ‹ and › to move back and forward, and Today to come back to the current date.

The grid opens in month view. Week and day views show the hours from 6:00 to 22:00 in half-hour slots, with an all-day row at the top. On a phone, the view buttons move below the grid, each day shows at most two events (tap the "+ more" link for the rest), and events show as colored bars without times.

Event types and colors

Every event has a type, set with Type in the event dialog:

The type also shows as a badge on each item in the Upcoming and Past lists. Events copied from Google Calendar are Google blue and have a Google badge; see Connecting Google Calendar.

Create an event on the grid

1. Click an empty time slot, or drag across several slots. On a touch screen, tap a day or slot.
2. The Create calendar item dialog opens with the time you picked. If you picked a whole day in month view, it starts as 9:00–10:00 that day.
3. Enter a Title (up to 120 characters).
4. Choose a Type: Event, Reminder, Deadline or Exam.
5. Optional: tick All day (see below).
6. Check Start and End (or First day and Last day for an all-day event).
7. Optional: set Reminder before start (minutes).
8. Select Create.

The first time you open this dialog, your browser may ask whether Atheneum can show notifications. That permission is used for reminders.

Create an event with the quick form

1. Select New event at the top of the page.
2. Enter a Title, a Start and an End.
3. Optional: pick a Color.
4. Select Save event.

The quick form always makes a timed item of type Event. To make an exam, deadline, reminder or all-day item, use the grid, or edit the event afterwards.

All-day events

Tick All day in the dialog to make an event that covers whole days, such as an exam day or a field trip. The fields change to First day and Last day; both days are included. An all-day event shows on the same dates wherever you are, because it's stored as dates, not times.

An event can last at most a year.

Edit an event

1. Click (or tap) the event on the grid.
2. The Edit calendar item dialog opens. Change anything you like.
3. Select Save changes.

Changing the Type also changes the color to that type's color. If you leave the type as it is, the event keeps its color, including a custom color from the quick form.

Delete an event

1. In the Upcoming or Past list, select the bin next to the event.
2. In Delete event?, select Delete.

Deleting is permanent. The edit dialog on the grid has no delete button, so use the lists. They show five events each, with a "more…" count below; the Upcoming list loads your next 60 events and Past covers the last 30 days.

If the event is synced with Google Calendar, deleting it here also deletes it in Google.

Reminders

Set Reminder before start (minutes) to get a browser notification that many minutes before the event starts. For an all-day event the field is Reminder before 9:00 that day (minutes): the reminder counts back from 9:00 on the first day.

Reminders have limits worth knowing:

• They only fire while the Calendar page is open in a tab, and only if you allowed notifications in your browser.
• Only reminders due within the next 24 hours are set up. The page refreshes them every hour while it stays open.
• There are no email or phone push reminders for calendar events.

Separately, the bell in the top bar shows notices such as "Calendar: today", "Calendar: tomorrow" and "Calendar: in 3 days" for events in the coming week.

Exams

Every future event of type Exam appears in the Exams and events panel. The nearest one gets the Next exam card, with the number of days left (or "Today"), its title and date. The rest are listed below it, nearest first, each with its own count of days. The Dashboard also shows your next exam and how far away it is.

Days are counted between local midnights, so an exam later today shows "Today", not "1 day".

Time zones

Atheneum reads times in your device's time zone, which it detects from your browser. There is no time zone setting. When you enter 14:00, that's 14:00 where your device says you are; travel to another zone and the same event shows at the matching local time there. All-day events don't shift.

Deadlines from Tasks

When you add a task with a deadline and turn on Add reminder in Calendar, Tasks creates an all-day Deadline item called "Task deadline: …" with a reminder set for 7:00 that morning. It's an ordinary calendar item from then on: edit or delete it here. See Tasks.

Troubleshooting

• "Calendar lists could not be fully loaded. You can still create and edit events." The lists failed to load. Reload the page in a moment.
• "End time must be after the start." or "The last day can't be before the first." Fix the times and save again.
• "Events can last at most a year." Split the event into shorter ones.
• "Give it a title." The title can't be empty.
• A reminder didn't fire. Keep the Calendar page open, and check that your browser allows notifications from Atheneum.
• Tapping a day does nothing on my phone. Tap inside the day cell, not on an event. Tapping an event opens it for editing.

Related

• Connecting Google Calendar
• Tasks
• Dashboard
• Notifications and alerts