Overview of the Illinois State University Events Calendar
The Illinois State University Events Calendar website hosts information about scheduled events and important dates.
Illinois State University Events Calendar
To find out what's going on around campus, visit the Illinois State University Events Calendar website located at http://events.illinoisstate.edu/.
The Events Calendar holds information about upcoming and past events hosted at the University. The calendar is intended for use by members of the University, as well as the public.
Types of Events
The types of events available on the calendar are wide-ranging. Most take place on campus, and many are official university functions, but some are organized by third-parties.
On the Events Calendar, you will find Illinois State sporting events, concert information, training workshops, guest speaker events, and much more.
Third-party events like Hearts at Home, which is targeted at central Illinois homemakers and held annually in the Bone Student Center, can be found on the Events Calendar.
Adding and Suggesting Events
There are two ways to add an event to the Events Calendar.
Click on Add an Event in the upper-right corner to see your options. If you are an authorized event author, you can log in with your ULID and password to create events on the calendar.
If you are not an event author, but have an event you'd like to suggest be added to the calendar, click the link to submit a public event. Then fill out the online form to suggest your event.
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- 1554: How to become an authorized Event Calendar author
Add Events to Your Personal or Exchange Calendar
You can add events from the Events Calendar to your calendar in Outlook or iCal. Other calendar applications may support .ICS files as well.
To add an event from the Events Calendar to your personal calendar, view the event's detailed description on the Events Calendar. Then click the link labeled, Download as ICS file. If you have a calendar application installed that supports .ICS files, the event will be added to your calendar.
- 1577: Using .ICS files to add events to your calendar in Outlook
- 1578: Using .ICS files to add events to your calendar in iCal
Known Issue in Entourage - The .ICS files available on the Events Calendar do not currently support Entourage. If you try to add an event to Entourage 2004 using one of the provided .ICS files, it will not work (nothing will happen). If you try this in Entourage 2008, you may encounter errors and the event will not get added properly to your calendar.
Add Events to Your Website via RSS
If your department, college, or organization regularly publishes events to the Events Calendar and has its own website, you may want to utilize the Event Calendar's RSS feed to display upcoming events from the calendar on your website.
If you are interested in utilizing the RSS feed for the Events Calendar, please contact Web Support Services using the Events Calendar contact form.