This is now in the Android app and the Windows Phone app; it is being built for iOS. (The Windows Phone version won’t be able to add events to the calendar, but will let you set reminders for upcoming classes. This is a limitation imposed by the phone’s security model, which is quite protective of the owner’s calendar and contacts.)

This is being built now for Android, iOS, and Windows Phone. (The Windows Phone version won’t be able to add events to the calendar, but will let you set reminders for upcoming classes. This is a limitation imposed by the phone’s security model, which is quite protective of the owner’s calendar and contacts.)

This is partially implemented in the new Android version. We’re planning to expand that and get it onto additional platforms in the coming months.

We’re now planning this for sometime in fall term.

The way it will work will be that there will be a button on the Schedule tab (inside Academics); tapping that button will show a list of each course-section that you have with checkboxes next to each. You’ll check the course-sections that you want added to your calendar then tap an Add button.

Each meeting time of the course-section will likely be added as a weekly recurring event for the term. There’s a good chance, that this will not be undo-able because we won’t want to delete any info from your calendars.

If you have other ideas for how we should implement this, please respond back in the comments for this idea at UserVoice.com.

We’re looking in to how to do this across the four smartphone operating systems that we support. If you have further ideas or comments on how you’d like to see this function work, post them here. Thanks for the great ideas!

Would you want to automatically do this or manually? If manually, is it for all courses or just the ones you choose?

Do you want to look at the “course” level or the “section” level? That is, if I add Physics 101 to my calendar, should the app add your meetings for lecture, recitation, and lab, or do you want to manually select sections?

Finally, are you asking about the schedule for the course meetings or do you also want events from the Blackboard calendar to flow to your phone’s calendar?

Would you want to automatically do this or manually? If manually, is it for all courses or just the ones you choose?

Do you want to look at the “course” level or the “section” level? That is, if I add Physics 101 to my calendar, should the app add your meetings for lecture, recitation, and lab, or do you want to manually select sections?