Watch the video above produced by Giada Morresi, Student Activities Board President and Student Senate VP, for a quick look at how to use the calendar. 

With nearly 5,000 students, 1,000 faculty and staff, and more than 160 clubs and organizations, there’s always something happening at Drake. In an effort to better promote our vibrant life on campus, University Communications & Marketing, in partnership with Student Senate, is excited to launch calendar.drake.edu, a new online calendar for the University.

The calendar will replace the previous University calendar and serve as the central hub for all campus events—important academic dates, athletic events, music performances, lectures, readings, films, job fairs—you name it. The calendar is user-friendly, efficient, and allows anyone with a drake.edu email address to submit events. Other benefits include increased awareness and web traffic. The tool will help University events to appear at the top of Google search results, increasing traffic to our website. The calendar can be accessed through the drake.edu website by clicking News & Events or by simply going to calendar.drake.edu.

To date, there are already more than 300 events on the calendar.

Submitting events
Anyone with a drake.edu email address can submit events—and is encouraged to do so. Click on the orange “Submit an Event” button, and you will be prompted to login using your Drake ID. When filling out the submission form, enter as much information as you can and then click “Add Event.” Your submission will go into a pending queue where it will be approved or rejected by your respective area’s calendar editor. Submissions that don’t have a complete description, are not a University organized/sponsored event, or violate the University’s Statement of Principles, will not be accepted. Please be aware that it may take 2–3 days for a submission to be approved and appear on the calendar. Submitting events at least seven days before the start date of your event is encouraged.

Customizing your view
A scrolling slide of “Featured Events” is displayed at the top of the page, followed by trending events. Click the “Upcoming” button to see everything happening this week, or select “All Events” to see events by day, week, or month. To further customize your view, you can filter events by type, audience, or topic, such as “Arts & Entertainment” or “Science & Technology.”

Add events to your personal calendar
Want to add all of the upcoming lectures to your calendar automatically? It’s easy. Just select the category you want on the right-hand side of the page, such as “Equity & Inclusion.” A new page will open listing the events within this category. Click on the appropriate calendar icon at the top of the page (Google, Outlook, iCal). All future events in this category will be added to your calendar.

For complete how-to guides and tips for calendar users, visit calendar.drake.edu/help/about. Localist, the company that developed the new Drake calendar, also has a collection of helpful resources to access as well. See the list.

If you have any additional questions regarding the calendar, please contact Kelsey Faybik, associate director of brand integration, at kelsey.faybik@drake.edu.

Jeremy Sievers, University Communications & Marketing