Accessing the SOCS Calendar Editor

To access the Calendar Editor follow these steps:

Step 1

Login via you school's SOCS.  How you do this will depend on your school's setup and may be via Single Sign On using you usual school credentials or with dedicated SOCS user details.  In this case you will find your login page URL in your SOCS user details email. Alternatively you can login via the SOCS login page link in the footer of your public facing SOCS Calendar website.

Step 2

Once you have logged on you will see the main SOCS control panel.

Step 3

On the main SOCS control panel you will see all the SOCS modules that you have been granted access to.

Step 4

To access the SOCS Calendar Editor, select SOCS Calendar

SOCS Calendar Editor Screen Layout

When you open your SOCS Calendar Editor for the first time you will see the layout below.

The Left-Hand Menu

1. If your school uses other SOCS modules, suchs as SOCS Sport or SOCS Co-curricular, then these calendars appear automatically in the left-hand menu.
2. On first access, you will see a "General" category has already been created. You can either retain or rename this category. Right click on a category to rename or delete it.
   
   

You cannot delete SOCS Sport or SOCS Co-curricular calendars

1. You can add more calendar categories as required by selecting "Add another category". Calendar Categories can either be public or internal.  More information about this can be found below. 
2. The left-hand menu is also where you add single and recurring events.

Month and Week View

1. The SOCS Calendar Editor opens by default in the Week View.
2. Use the + button located to the top right of any day in the Week or Month view to add a single event to the selected day.