Calendar Help

Please refer to the guides below for any questions you may have regarding how to use and customize your account.

Your Account

If you are logging into the calendar for the first time as a DMU user, you should be logging in using your DMU ID. If you have already logged into the calendar in another window, Localist will recognize that you have already logged into your account and will not prompt you to enter your login information again.

Q: What if I want to use one of the social media options to login?

A: You may use social accounts to login to your account in the future, but for your first time logging into the calendar, please make sure to use your DMU ID. If you do choose to use social accounts to login in the future, please make sure to review the next section regarding Account Settings before doing so. There are some additional settings you will have to configure on your account to be able to use these login options.

Account Settings:
Once you have logged into the calendar for the first time, hover over your account profile icon beside the search bar and select Settings. Under Account Settings, you will be able to add a photo to your account, and additional (optional) information including your birthday, zip code, and gender.

To the right side of this window, you will see “Social Connections.” If you would like to use one of your social media accounts to login or invite friends to events on campus, please connect to your social media accounts in this section. Once you have done so, you will be able to use both your DMU ID or social media accounts that you have connected in this section to login to your account.

Notifications:
To adjust the notifications you will receive and how you will receive them, simply select Notifications from the top of the page, directly under the dark purple bar.

Privacy:
To adjust who can see your activity on the calendar, please select “Privacy” under the search bar from the same section (Settings).

Please keep in mind that it is helpful for event organizers to see attendees on events to gauge interest and engagement and for students to see friends that are attending campus events.

Customizing your Calendar:
We want you to always know about the events that are important to you and so does our Campus Calendar. Browse the customizations below to learn different ways to customize how you will be notified about the upcoming events that you’re most interested in.

Subscriptions

Subscribe to Events by Locations:
If you are only interested in following events that are happening in certain locations on campus, you can follow the steps below to follow “Places”.

Go to https://calendar.dmu.edu
Login to your account.
Select Places from the right-hand column under the “Submit Event” button.
Find the location you would like to follow, click on it, and select Follow at the top right side of your window.

Subscribe to Events by Departments:
If you are only interested in following events that are being hosted by certain departments on campus, you can follow the steps below to follow “Departments”.

Go to https://calendar.dmu.edu
Login to your account.
Select Departments from the right-hand column under the “Submit Event” button.
Find the Department you would like to follow, click on it, and select Follow at the top right side of your window.

Subscribe to Events by Student Organizations or Clubs:
If you are only interested in following events that are being hosted by certain Student Organizations or Clubs, you can follow the steps below to follow “Groups”.

Go to https://calendar.dmu.edu
Login to your account.
Select Groups from the right-hand column under the “Submit Event” button.
Find the Student Organization or Group you would like to follow, click on it, and select Follow at the top right side of your window.

Subscribe to All Events:
If you would like to subscribe to all events that are posted to the Campus Calendar, follow the steps below:

Go to https://calendar.dmu.edu
Login to your account.
Select All Events from the right-hand column under the “Submit Event” button.
Select your favored subscription method from the top of the page by selecting one of the icons directly below the dark blue bar (Google Calendar, iCal, Outlook, or RSS).

Subscribe by events/event audiences/ or event topics (Filtering):
By using filtering, you can subscribe to the events that are most important to you! For example, if you are a current student who is only interested in Wellness events you would follow the steps below to subscribe to only those events.

Go to https://calendar.dmu.edu
Login to your account.
Scroll down the page until you see “Wellness and Recreation” under “Event Types” on the right side of the page, and then select it.
Scroll down to the bottom of the page to choose your favored subscription method by selecting one of the icons (Google Calendar, iCal, Outlook, or RSS).

Interacting with the Calendar

I'm Intersted':
Once you select "I’m Interested" on an event, the event is added to My Calendar in your dashboard (your personal calendar). If it is a repeating event, you will be prompted to select all dates or specific instances.

Once "I’m Interested" is selected, a “You’re interested” message will appear in place of the "I’m Interested" button. To remove the event, you only need to select change dates (recurring event) or not interested (non-recurring event). Then you will be added to the “People Going” box and will be listed on the People Interested roster found on the event’s edit page in admin.

You will receive two emails:

Reminder:

Review:

Inviting Friends:
By default, every event details page includes an Invite Friends button. When clicked, a box will appear and prompt you to “mention this event to friends” on the calendar platform OR enter specific email addresses.

If the email receiving the invitation is associated an account in the calendar, the individual will be prompted to sign in and the invitation will be available via the notification next to their account, which will take them to their My Calendar page.

If the email receiving the invitation is not associated with an account in the calendar, the link in the email will take the individual to the event’s details page.

Event Submissions

Event Submissions:
Are you an employee or department having an event you would like to promote on the Campus Calendar? Just log in to the calendar and select the Submit Event button at the top right corner of the page to begin filling out the Event Submission Form. If your event meets the Event Submission Guidelines, one of our Calendar Admins will approve the event and add it to the Calendar within 2 business days (M-F). Please keep in mind that your event should be submitted no later than 7 business days before the event. This rule not only helps give our Calendar Admins enough time to respond to the submission request but also gives other users enough time to discover your event while browsing the calendar.

Event Submission Guidelines:
The Des Moines University Medicine and Health Sciences Campus Calendar is only for events organized, hosted, sponsored, or cosponsored by DMU departments, colleges, schools, centers, and institutes, alumni organization and officially sanctioned student organizations. Events may be open to the general public or private events for DMU faculty, staff, students, and/or alumni. They may also be hosted on- or off-campus. DMU will not accept event submissions from individuals or organizations outside of the University with the exception of some conferences or events held in DMU venues.

Des Moines University reserves the right to approve, reject, edit, or make special consideration for any events submitted to the calendar. Submissions that don’t have a complete description or violate the University’s Statement of Principles will not be accepted. The University also reserves the right to remove unacceptable comments or photos uploaded to event pages. Unacceptable comments include but are not limited to: Profane or obscene language or content; content that promotes, fosters, or perpetrates discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, religion, age, disability, sex, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, genetic information, veteran status or any characteristic protected by law in its educational programs and activities, admission, or employment.

Event Submission Workflow:

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