Students can use the student calendar in the TeachCenter to view all the dates of courses and exams for which they are registered. Deadlines for assignments and the like are also displayed.
Teachers, on the other hand, can use the TeachCenter calendar to enter their own appointments or events for courses and groups.
Both calendars can be synchronised with a wide range of calendar applications. You can keep an overview of all the important dates for your courses, with daily updates.
The TeachCenter calendar displays appointments from the TeachCenter (e.g. group and course events such as submissions). The student calendar also displays TUGRAZonline events for all courses and exams for which students are registered, as well as dates for potential exams. However, students can only view their student calendar and cannot enter their own appointments.
Both calendars can be found via the main menu at the top > TC calendar or Student Calendar.
Main menu with the two menu options for the calendars
The view of the calendar can be switched between month, day and ‘upcoming events’ (= 2 weeks).
Choose calendar view
Calendar overview
You can also use the drop-down menu to filter by course to display only appointments from a specific TeachCenter course. Clicking on an appointment shows more details about the event. If the event is, for example, the deadline for an assignment, you can go directly to the TeachCenter course or the assignment from there.
Event details
What you can see by default in the TeachCenter calendar:
Students see...
Deadlines for TeachCenter activities in their courses, e.g. assignments.
All dates that teachers have entered for a course or group in the TeachCenter
Personal appointments that they have entered (directly in the TeachCenter calendar)
Teachers see...
All events that have been entered in the TeachCenter for their own course or group
Deadlines for TeachCenter activities in their courses, e.g. assignments
Personal appointments that they have entered (directly in the TeachCenter calendar)
You can delete personal events that you have entered by clicking on the event > Delete.
Course events can only be deleted if the corresponding activity is deleted by teachers.
You can hide individual types of events by expanding the sidebar on the right in the calendar view and clicking on the eye icon next to a type.
Hide certain events
In the student calendar:
Events cannot be deleted or edited because the calendar is read-only. Events only disappear if the corresponding event in TUGRAZonline or the TeachCenter activity is deleted by teachers, or if you unsubscribe from the course.
You can filter individual types of events using the items on the left.
To import one of the two calendars into another calendar app (Outlook calendar, Google calendar, etc.), you have to create a calendar export (file or link).
In the TeachCenter calendar:
Click on Import or Export Calendars below the calendar view.
Click on the Export calendar button.
Select the type of event you want to export: All events, course-related events (e.g. deadlines for submissions) or personal events.
Select the period of time that you want to export. You can select a period of up to one year into the future.
Choose export details
If you want the exported calendar to be continuously synchronised and updated with the TeachCenter calendar, or if you want changes in the calendar to be synchronised as well, click on Get calendar URL. This will provide you with a link that you can enter in your calendar app. Changes in the TeachCenter calendar will then be transferred to the other calendar app in the future as well. The link only needs to be entered once in your calendar app. The synchronisation will then take place automatically.
If you only want to do a one-time export but do not want to synchronise future changes to events, click on Export. You will receive an .ics file that you can upload to another calendar app. With this option, you will have to export again after the selected export period in order to import future appointments into your own calendar.
Exporting the student calendar
In the student calendar, you will find three options directly below the calendar:
Exam dates URL: Export of potential exam dates. You will receive a link that you can enter in your calendar app.
Export Moodle events: Export of the TeachCenter calendar, see above.
TUGRAZonline calendar URL: Export of appointments from TUGRAZonline (courses, exams). You will receive a link that you can enter in your calendar app.
Please note: As in the calendar itself, the export covers a period of 120 days into the past and 180 days into the future.
Help & Contact
For questions on the TeachCenter / TeachCenter Exam: tc@tugraz.at
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