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title: "Calendar & Scheduling"
description: "Create events on the platform-wide Blend-ed Calendar, switch between its views, and find where course release dates, due dates and pacing are set."
source: "https://docs.blend-ed.com/product/course-creation/calendar-and-scheduling/"
---

# Calendar & Scheduling

Blend-ed handles time in two places, and they’re worth keeping apart:

- **The Calendar** — a platform-wide events calendar for live sessions, orientations, deadlines, and anything else you want on people’s schedules.
- **Course scheduling** — release dates, due dates, and pacing, set inside each course.

This article covers the Calendar in full, then points to where each scheduling control lives.

## Part 1: The Calendar
**Opening it**

Click **Calendar** in the main left navigation.

![Calendar with the empty state](/_astro/image85.BC3c4Bwe_76tbL.webp)

An empty calendar reads *Nothing scheduled*, with a prompt to create an event and put it on everyone’s calendar.

**Views**

Three views, switched from the toggle at the top right:

| **View** | **What it shows** |
| --- | --- |
| **Agenda** | A list grouped by day, with an event count per group. Best for seeing what’s next |
| **Month** | A full month grid, with today highlighted and events shown by time |
| **Week** | A seven-day time grid. Best when several events fall in one week |

Navigate with the **‹** and **›** arrows, or click **Today** to jump back to the current date. The range label between them shows where you are.

![Month view with an event](/_astro/image86.LC-Y1993_1iHr2E.webp)

The **Filter** control narrows what’s displayed.

## Creating an event
Click **+ New event**. A panel opens on the right with four sections.

![New event panel](/_astro/image87.D4etzB62_PPaQ2.webp)

![New event panel](/_astro/image88.Cd2pcx5U_1URl4v.webp)

**Basic details**

| **Field** | **What to enter** |
| --- | --- |
| **Title** | For example, *Course 1 - Orientation* |
| **Description** | What the event is |
| **Category** | The event type. Defaults to *General* |

**Date and time**

Set **Starts on** and **Start time**, then **Ends on** and **End time**. Both default to the current date and time, so change them.

**Location and link**

- **Location** — a physical venue, or *Online*
- **Link** — the joining link for online sessions

*Tip: Fill both for online events. Location tells learners at a glance whether they need to travel; Link gives them the way in. An event with a link and no location reads as ambiguous.*

**Audience**

This is what makes the event appear on the right people’s calendars.

1. Choose from the **Send to** dropdown:

| **Option** | **Who it targets** |
| --- | --- |
| **Learners** | Individual learners |
| **Staff** | Individual staff members |
| **Admins** | Individual admins |
| **Teams** | Everyone in a team |
| **Courses** | Everyone enrolled in a course |
| **Programs** | Everyone enrolled in a program |

1. Search or scroll the list, and tick the recipients. A running count shows how many are selected.

![Send to dropdown](/_astro/image89.Ds_j9sBa_1XEUAm.webp)

Click **Save**. A confirmation appears and the event lands on the calendar.

*Tip: Target by Course, Program, or Team rather than picking people one by one. Individual selections go stale the moment someone new enrols; a course-targeted event reaches whoever is enrolled at the time.*

## Reading the calendar
In Agenda view, each event shows the date and time on the left, then a coloured bar, the category as a chip, and the title with the location and link beside it.

![Agenda view](/_astro/image8a.D8YoVkPC_Z19Emzq.webp)

Month view shows events inside their day cell with the start time and a shortened title.

*Note: A calendar event announces something; it doesn’t enforce it. Scheduling an “Assignment 1 due” event tells learners the date but doesn’t close submissions. Deadlines that actually take effect are set inside the course. See [Advanced Course Configuration](/product/course-creation/advanced-course-configuration/).*

## What’s next
- Schedule a live session as course content: Creating & Managing Live Sessions
- Set release dates, due dates, and course pacing: [Advanced Course Configuration](/product/course-creation/advanced-course-configuration/)