The UTC Events Calendar (https://calendar.utc.edu) serves as the university’s central hub for promoting events across campus. Powered by Localist, the calendar provides a public-facing platform where departments, offices, and student organizations can showcase upcoming events and activities.
How the UTC Calendar Integrates with MocSync
One of the key features of the UTC Events Calendar is its ability to display student organization events that originate in MocSync. If your website needs to display events from a student organization, the preferred approach is to pull those events from MocSync into the UTC Calendar.
To set up this integration, the Web Team will need the name of the organization as it appears in MocSync. An RSS feed can then be configured to bring the organization’s events into the UTC Calendar, allowing them to be displayed through Localist widgets on your website.
For many groups, this means there is no need to become a UTC Calendar editor. If all of your events can be managed through MocSync, maintaining them in MocSync alone will automatically support both calendar visibility and website event displays.
For more information on MocSync, contact Hannah Turcotte, in the Center for Student Leadership, Engagement, and Community.
When You May Need UTC Calendar Editor Access
Some events may not originate in MocSync or may require direct management within the UTC Calendar. In those cases, you have two options:
- Request training to become a UTC Calendar editor. Editor access allows you to create and manage events directly within the UTC Calendar, though the training and onboarding process may take some time.
- Submit a request for assistance through the UTC Service Portal at:
https://utc.teamdynamix.com/TDClient/2717/Portal/Requests/Service/53945/General-Inquiry
The service request option is often the quickest solution for occasional event submissions or calendar-related questions.
Creating and Embedding a Localist Calendar Widget
Once your events are available in the UTC Calendar, you can display them on your Drupal website using a Localist widget. Widgets allow you to surface upcoming events from specific calendars, departments, or organizations directly within your site.
Step-by-step instructions for building and embedding a Localist Events widget are available only to Super Users in the Web Knowledge Base here.
By combining MocSync, the UTC Events Calendar, and Localist widgets, departments and organizations can maintain a single source of event information while ensuring events are visible across both the university calendar and their own websites.