The entire campus! This is a resource for all to utilize and contribute to.

University Relations maintains the Campus Calendar and oversees approval of events.

The UAB Campus Calendar is for events organized, hosted, sponsored or cosponsored by UAB units, departments, colleges, schools, centers and institutes, alumni organizations, and official registered student organizations.

Events hosted exclusively by local or regional non-university businesses or organizations would be better suited to be posted on the Birmingham 365 calendar, maintained by the Birmingham Convention & Visitors Bureau.

In order to submit events, users must have a UAB email address (@uab.edu). View the UAB Campus Calendar guidelines.

There is no limit to the number of events that can be added and stored on the platform. The more events, the better!

That said, always be conscious of quality to increase the likelihood that your audience will engage with your event listings.

Yes! Creating an event listing in the Campus Calendar offers a quick way to provide a link to more information without the need to set up a website or publish a news release online.

Centralization is one of the top priorities for the UAB calendar team. You can create events once in the Campus Calendar and publish them anywhere you’d like with tools such as Widgets. That said, any student groups who submit events on the Engage Calendar will not need to submit events to the Campus Calendar as they are already synced each night.

Past events provide unique insight to UAB’s campus, culture, and community. Even though your event has passed, it is still important to the UAB story! Having your event accessible after the fact helps provide context for what your audience may expect in the future.

Localist is the name for the content management system that powers the Campus Calendar.

Technically, only the “Event Name,” “Description,” and “Start Date” are required fields. However, the more information you provide, the better exposure your event will receive.

Note: In most cases, events without locations will be rejected. Exceptions include:

• events that happen outside of a specific location (ex. UAB Giving Day)
• events scheduled months in advance where a location is not yet determined

Events appear in the Campus Calendar immediately upon approval. Approval turnaround time is typically less than 48 hours.

Nevertheless, we strongly recommend that you submit events as early as possible in order to allow for maximum exposure.

Events are usually approved within 48 hours of submission. It is important to submit your event as early as possible to give it a maximum window of exposure.

Not at all! The Campus Calendar allows you to list all the dates and times of a recurring event within a single event listing. You’re able to create one event and add the recurring dates as separate instances on the same event details page.

However, if you want to list different event details for each event – for instance, a weekly lecture series with a different speaker each week – you will need to create separate event listings for each.

If the image you submit contains a significant amount of text, the image will be removed before the event is published. Text on images breaks accessibility guidelines. Text should instead be included within the event description and other fields. Event flyers are not appropriate for the image field.

Images help the visibility of event listings, so the Campus Calendar is set to assign one by default if an image is not provided. Depending on the information included in your event listing, the Calendar may display a photo of the location of the event or the logo of the unit hosting the event.

Only if they are a co-sponsor of the event, or if you have permission from those groups.

When an event is edited it goes back into the “pending” queue for approval. We strive to have events approved within 48 hours.

If you are forced to make a last-minute change and need an event listing re-published quickly, please contact Campus Calendar Support.

In most cases, it’s because someone else submitted the event. The person who submitted the event listing is designated as the event “owner.” Only that person or a Calendar admin is able to make changes.

Contact Campus Calendar Support if you need us to make an edit and/or reassign the event owner.

Contact Campus Calendar Support, and we will remove your department from the event listing.

Please fill out a Campus Calendar Support ticket, and select “Add/Remove/Edit Department or Group” as the request type.

Please fill out a Campus Calendar Support ticket, and select “Add/Remove/Edit Department or Group” as the request type.

Most departments were assigned a generic graphic for their parent unit when the Calendar launched. If you prefer one specific to your department, you can request an internal unit logo (for your Campus Calendar page, request a “social media logo”).

To have your unit's graphic replaced with a diffent image, fill out a Campus Calendar Support ticket, and select “Add/Remove/Edit Department or Group” as the request type.

The Campus Calendar provides a widget builder to help.

The widget builder offers a lot of options – both in styling and in customizing exactly what sort of events you want to pull.

Your department’s web specialist will be able to insert the resulting embed code into a module or article in Joomla.

No. The Campus Calendar provides classifications for “departments” (official internal units) and “groups” (organizations, councils, committees). There is no separate designation for schools, centers, institutes, etc.