Waukegan Public School District 60
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Calendar Plug-In Tutorial

Manila has a calendar plug in built in to assist you in building an Internet-friendly calendar. This feature allows you to add and delete events simply and easily. To use feature you will need to enable it for your site. Once the feature is enabled for your site, you will want to link it from your site. Below is a list of tutorials to help you get your calendar set up.

Enabling the Calendar Plug-in
Adding Events to Your Calendar
Deleting Events From Your Calendar
Adding a Strikethrough to Your Event

Enable Calendar Plug-in (one-time setup)

The first thing you have to do in order to use the calendar plug in is to enable the plug in.

1. In the Editors Only menu, select Prefs.
2. Next, select the Plug-ins option from the left hand navigation menu.
3. Once the Plug-ins page loads you should see a list of available plug-ins.
4. Check the box next to the Calendar feature and click the Submit button.
   
5. Once the feature is enabled, you will see a new Calendar item in your Editors Only menu.

Adding Events to Your Calendar

1. Select Calendar from the Editors Only menu.
2. Choose the month you want to edit.
3. Click on the editor page button on the right side of the page.
4. Select Add from the navigation menu on the left side of the screen.
   
5. Select the date of the new event.
   
6. Type in the name of the event in Calendar Entry. This section is very short. You will not be able to add a long title here.
7. If you want to add more information about a particular event, use the URL to connect this event with a story you created in Manila. The format would be like: http://www.waukeganschools.org/WHSAthletics/Wrestling/
8. Push the Add Item button.

Note: There is is 32 character length on the entries. This means that events / entries can only be 32 letters/numbers long.

Deleting Events From Your Calendar

1. Select Calendar from the Editors Only menu.
2. Choose the month you want to edit.
3. Click on the editor page button on the right side of the page.
4. Select Delete from the navigation menu on the left side of the screen.
5. Check the box of the event you would like to delete. (You can check more than one.)
   
6. Click the Delete Item(s) button.

Adding a Strikethrough to Your Event

Remember that this text box is very short and you probably will not be able to enter the whole title.

Add these tags before and after the text you want to strikethrough <strike>TEXT HERE</strike>. To strike through “Wrestling Match” it would look like this <strike>Wresting Match</strike> and the text would look like this on the website Wrestling Match.