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### The Control Panel

To get started, scroll to the bottom of the page, and click the **Submit Events** button in the **Control Panel**. Log in using your [NetID](https://netid.uconn.edu) and password.

After logging in, or if you are already logged in, the control panel will fix itself to the bottom of the window frame.

![control panel](media://d484fa0a-cb84-4ce8-a25a-619907bac73a)

### The Form

![event form](media://be6b167d-6c4f-44d2-a1ec-3e857677f3e1)

### Upload Image

- Upload a photo, and you might appear on the Events calendar homepage and get a little extra promotion for your event.
- Images must be less than 2 megabytes (2000 kb) in file size.
  - **Photoshop**
    - Go to **Image** > **Image Size**... and reduce the file to no more than 1000px in either dimension.
    - Go to **File** > **Save for Web**...  choose **JPG**.
  - **Free Online Image Tools**
    - [picresize.com](http://www.picresize.com/)
    - [webresizer.com](http://www.webresizer.com/)
    - [shrinkpictures.com](http://www.shrinkpictures.com/)
- Images must be in a compressed web format (.jpg, .gif, or .png).
- Images must not violate copyright laws. (Do not just download random images from google).
  - You can use any image from the [UConn Image database](https://brand.uconn.edu/resources/photography/), or other [public-domain image libraries](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Public_domain_image_resources).

### Title

- Limited to 50 characters.
- Remember that in most views, people will only ever see about 20 characters worth of your title. We recommend using as brief a title as possible here. You can always write a longer version in the description.

### Location

- Select a campus.
- Enter details like building and room number.

### Date

- The day the event will begin.

### Time

- The start and end times of the event.
- If the event lasts the entire day (i.g., the first day of classes or Thanksgiving), then use the All Day checkbox.

### Repeat

- If the event repeats regularly without changing (e.g., Chess Club Weekly Meeting), use the repeating patterns to make multiple events that are linked.

### Description

- Limited to 300 characters.
- The description is limited to plain text only with no formatting.
- If you include URLs in your description, the text preceding the URL should describe the link's destination.
  - Example: "To register for the event, select the following link" followed by the URL.

### Contact

- Enter any information about who should be contacted for more information about this event.

### Primary (Calendar)

- If you only manage one calendar, your calendar will appear here.
- For those who manage multiple calendars, you may select which calendar will be listed as the owner and organizer of the event.

### Crosslist

- With this tool, you can send invitations to other calendars to have them list your event.
- By default, the UConn Master Calendar is selected.
- You may send promote invites to up to 5 other calendars in total.

### Approval Process

- A public submission goes to the [admin](https://events.uconn.edu/contact) and manager(s) of the primary calendar where the event was submitted for approval. The event will show up on the primary and cross-listed calendars after the approval.  Modification on the event after submission can be made by the primary calendar [admin](https://events.uconn.edu/contact) and manager(s).
- Event submitted to a primary calendar by its admin and managers will be automatically approved and show up on the calendar and any cross-listed calendars.

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