Events help

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About events

The edna event calendars list educational events relevant to Australian educators, including conferences, scholarships, celebrations and competitions. Events are identified and documented from a variety of sources. All listed events are the responsibility of the organiser or contributor. Please use the contact details provided on the event entry for enquiries.

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Events calendar

You can navigate events via a calendar listing, and then use the sort features at the top of the list to view events. This allows you to view events for a particular location, date or title.

Which calendar?

First choose the calendar you would like to use and click 'Display'
First choose the calendar you would like to use and click 'Display'

Pick a date on the calendar

The dark blue square marks today. A pale blue colour marks your selected date.
The dark blue square marks today. A pale blue colour marks your selected date.

Pick a time focus

Specify day, month or year. Day will focus on the day you have selected in the calendar.
Specify day, month or year. Day will focus on the day you have selected in the calendar.
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Here and now

In the blue band, links for today, this month, this year, bring you back to the present.
In the blue band, links for today, this month, this year, bring you back to the present.

Search events

There are two ways of searching events:    

  • Location Search:      
    Use the map of Australia, and click on any state or territory to find events available for that location.  Events outside of Australia, online or all events can also be selected.    
  • Advanced Search:     
    Refine your search using any or all of the following fields: date, keywords, location, sector. If no events are found a search again option is available.

Download an event

To download an event, select the calendar icon next to an event to download it to your calendar. The download function uses the ical standard and has been tested in the following systems. 

  • MS Outlook 2001/2003 for 95/98/2000/
  • XPiCal for Mac OSX

If the browser asks you to ‘open’ or ‘save’, select ‘open’.

Suggest an event

If you wish to suggest an event to edna, please send an email to
askedna@edna.edu.au.

Selection criteria are applied to identify quality content that actively enhances education and training. Our collection standards page is a good guide for picking events for edna.

Events relevant to education and training are the priority for inclusion in event calendars.

All suggested events are reviewed by our information officers before inclusion. This process usually takes about two working days.

How do the calendars work?

  • [pdf] Events metadata  (1686 Kb)
    • Calendar content is generated using edna events metadata and vocabularies