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The Department of Information Technology and the Office of Communications look forward to hearing your feedback on how we can improve the calendar experience for both visitors to our site and administrators who plan events. Submit feedback here.
How to post an event
▶️ Watch this short instructional video on how to post an event
Post date
This is the date that your request was submitted, not the date of the event itself. Do not change this field.
Required fields
Event title
- Short, descriptive titles work best. Ex: “COVID-19, Obesity, and Systemic Racism,” or “Post-Election Community Space.”
- The title “Brown Bag Lunch” gives insufficient information, while “Department of Psychology Monthly Lecture Series: James Polk, Best-Selling Author, Talk Followed by Q&A” contains too much information.
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- Do not upload flyers as images.
- Images that contain large amounts of text are not complaint with Harvard University accessibility best practices.
- If you have any text in your image, it MUST appear in the description and/or alt text for the image. This allows people who use assistive technology (such as screen readers) to get information about your event.
- You MUST add an alt tag to your image. You will see a box for the alt tag appear after you upload the image.
Images should be 1200x800 pixels.
Info title Image cropping tools Photoshop offers a free online image cropping tool (free account registration required). When using this tool, set crop ratio setting to 3:2 then resize image to 1200x800. When downloading the result, set the filetype to JPG, and quality to 95%.
Additionally, all Harvard University faculty, staff, and students are eligible for Adobe Creative Cloud (which includes Adobe Photoshop) with 100GB of Adobe Cloud Storage. Click here for more information on accessing the Adobe Creative Cloud suite of applications.
- You must have the rights to distribute any image you upload.
- The Office of Communications provides a gallery of images that are free for School affiliates to use for their events.
- Click here to access the Events Calendar Stock Gallery (password: juMPf0r3st juMPf0r3st)
- To find inexpensive or free royalty-free imagery, we recommend the following websites:
- The Office of Communications provides a gallery of images that are free for School affiliates to use for their events.
Additional Event Info
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After reviewing all your information for accuracy, select “+Finished” to submit your event.
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Assistance
For questions and help with the web calendar, please contact digitalcomms@hsph.harvard.edu.