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1 UW Event Calendars Powered by Trumba Connect (a cloud-based Web calendaring system) 02/20/2014

2 Getting Started What we’ll cover: 1.(Quick) Trumba event calendar overview 2.End user experience 3.Editor experience 4.Where to learn more 5.Q&A

3 Overview What does Trumba Event Calendar do? Cloud-based calendar service (SaaS) that lets you manage events in your organization

4 Overview What does Trumba Event Calendar do? Cloud-based calendar service (SaaS) that lets you manage events in your organization Publishes event calendar info to your Web site

5 Overview What does Trumba Event Calendar do? Cloud-based calendar service (SaaS) that lets you manage events in your organization Publishes event calendar info to your Web site Enables people to review your events, sign up for them, and add them to their calendars

6 Overview What does Trumba Event Calendar do? Cloud-based calendar service (SaaS) that lets you manage events in your organization Publishes event calendar info to your Web site Enables people to review your events, sign up for them, and add them to their calendars Allows you to share your events with other calendars (e.g. the Campus Event calendar)

7 Overview Service started in June 2013

8 Overview Calendar #s: Seattle: 280 Tacoma: 49 Bothell: 25 Service started in June 2013

9 Overview Who’s using it? UW Seattle Academic Calendar UW Seattle Campus Events UW Career Center – All Events Foster School of Business Whole U The Graduate School Department of Medicine And many more! Calendar #s: Seattle: 280 Tacoma: 49 Bothell: 25 Service started in June 2013

10 Overview It’s free! (anyone with a UW NetID can request a calendar)

11 End User Experience What do end users see?

12 End User Experience Event calendar views – two types: 1.Generic calendar view (no coding required by the publisher) 2.Customized calendar views Trumba lets you embed javascript widgets (“Spuds”) onto Web pages that provide customized calendar views & functionality.

13 End User Experience Generic Calendar View:

14 End User Experience Customized Calendar: School of Engineering

15 End User Experience Customized Calendar: School of Art

16 End User Experience Customized calendar click-around: Trumba UniversityTrumba University

17 Editor Experience What do editors see?

18 Editor Experience Editor view click-around: Trumba Training Calendar Trumba Training Calendar

19 Editor Experience Editor Calendar View

20 Editor Experience Editor Calendar View

21 Editor Experience Editor Add Event View

22 UW Event Calendar Resources Where can I find more info?

23 UW Event Calendar Resources IT Connect Event Calendar Support Page https://www.washington.edu/itconnect/connect/uw-event-calendar/ https://www.washington.edu/itconnect/connect/uw-event-calendar/ Editor Overview Video https://tegr.it/y/17min https://tegr.it/y/17min Trumba Web site http://www.trumba.com http://www.trumba.com help@uw.edu

24 Q&A Question How do I request a calendar? Answer Send request to help@uw.edu.help@uw.edu -Org unit (college, school, dept.) -Web site URL -Estimate of #events posted per month -Nature of events (e.g. performance, lecture, workshop) (This info is on IT Connect site)

25 Q&A Question How to avoid duplicates? Answer Users must manually check with other event calendars to see if their event conflicts with another; there is no automatic duplicate detection.

26 Q&A Question Are more event types possible? Answer Yes, but… While new event type requests will be considered we want to keep our list as short as possible to maintain usability.

27 Q&A Question What are some of the biggest Trumba support issues? Answer New calendar requests Adding editors Customizing Trumba widgets (“spuds”) Help pages exist to address these issues on the IT Connect site.

28 Q&A Question There have been slow server issues and "calendar not available” messages – why is this and what’s being done to mitigate? Answer Your network connection could be a key factor Please email help@uw.edu with a screenshot of the error message so we can report it to Trumba Support.help@uw.edu

29 Q&A More questions?

30 Mucho Gracias! Thanks! More questions?: wfs@uw.edu


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