Before you start
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Step 1: Log in
Log in to submit an event using your University username and password.
Step 2: Event metadata
Complete the required metadata fields for your event: Title, Event Category, Event Type, Audience and the start date. You may also select other metadata fields. Then click the check in button.
Step 3: Event content
From the floating Main Content toolbar, select the left button (Edit Region Content), or press the right button and then select Edit.
If you cannot see this, press CTRL+SHIFT+F5 to go into editing mode.
On this page enter all the appropriate information for your event.
The teaser is a short line of information that is displayed under the title of your event in the list of events.
The meta description is mandatory. This should describe your event in approximately 140-160 characters. You need to include this information before you will be allowed to save your event. If you do not include this field and try to save you will receive an error message.
The other fields: location, cost etc, are self-explanatory.
Please note: If your event is Open to the Public, go to the top of the page and click on the metadata tab, go to the 'EventonFrontPage' section and choose 'Yes'.
You can preview the content of your event by clicking the “Preview” icon in the tool bar at the top of the page.
To save this information click the “Update” disc icon in the tool bar at the top of the page.
Step 4: Workflow
Once checked in and saved your event will then go into workflow to be checked and approved. Upon the successful completion of workflow your event will then appear in the events calendar.
Step 5: Print these instructions?
You may like to print these instructions as a reference document prior to submitting an event. Feedback on these instructions would be gladly welcomed to webservices.support@otago.ac.nz
Samples
Title: This is the title of the event
eg "Putting the rigor into mortis: new horizons in anatomy" Professor Mark Richards Inaugural Professorial Lecture
Event Category: What kind of category does this event fit into from the following? Note you can only select one category from the following: Academic Dates, Alumni Events, Business, Exhibitions, Health Sciences, Humanities, Music & Performance, Public Holidays, Sciences.
Event Type: What type of event is it? There are many options and you can select more than one event type for an event.
Audience: Who is the primary audience for this event. Do not make a departmental seminar a public event and be upset when members of the public arrive in your department for the seminar.
Campus: Which campus is this event being held on?
Department: Which department is the primary department hosting this event?
Section/Programme: This is where you can type in the name of the section or programme hosting this event.
Research Centre: This is where you can type in the name of the research centre hosting this event.
Start Date: The date and time the event starts.
End Date: The date and time the event ends.
Teaser: The teaser is shown in lists of events, but not on the individual page detailing the event. A one sentence summary of the event is best.
Description: This can be a longer description of the event including perhaps a synopsis of the event.
Location: The location in which the event is being held.
Cost: Is there a cost associated with attending this event? If so, how much?
Contact: Primary contact person for this event.
Contact Email: A contact email.
Contact Phone: A contact phone number.
Alternate URL: Perhaps the department's website address or conference's website address.
Sample Event
Event metadata
| Title | Putting the rigor into mortis: new horizons in anatomy |
|---|---|
| Event Category | Health Sciences |
| Event Type | Public Lecture, Inaugural Professorial Lecture |
| Audience | Public, All University |
| Campus | Dunedin |
| Department | Anatomy and Structural Biology |
| Section/Programme | Not applicable. |
| Research Centre | Not applicable. |
| Start Date | 18 February 2010 |
| Start Time | 5:15pm |
| End Date | 18 February 2010 |
| End Time | 6:30pm |
Event Content
| Teaser | Professor Mark Stringer, Inaugural Professorial Lecture |
|---|---|
| Description | The Inaugural Professorial lecture from Professor Mark Stringer, Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology. |
| Location | Barnett Lecture Theatre, Dunedin Public Hospital, Great King Street, Dunedin |
| Cost | Free |
| Contact | Somebody Else |
| Contact Email | department.inquestion@otago.ac.nz |
| Contact Phone | 64 3 479 1100 |
| Alternate URL | http://www.otago.ac.nz/anatomy |
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