How to Create an Event

There are a few ways to get to the screen for creating an event:

• Go to the Events tab, click the Create Event button, and choose your organization.

• If you are already in your group’s dashboard, which you can get to under the Groups tab, click on the Events box, and then the Create Event button.​​

1. When you create an event, you will be prompted to choose a template. Choose Blank Event Template.

1. In the form, fill out all necessary information and click Create Event to submit.
2. That’s it! You have now created an event for your organization!

Points of clarification:

• Event tags are options and you can choose multiple tags per event. Students can search for events by the tag and event type.

• By default, all officers can manage the event.
• If you want only specific people to manage the event instead, you can add them as team members and check the box.

• You can add custom instructions (i.e. “check in starts at __” )
• You can make this a recurring event (i.e. weekly meeting)

• You can set so that you can only see location once registered 
  • This is a useful option for online meeting links

• You can use a different ticketing system (i.e. carnegiemellontickets) by clicking No and redirecting to a different link
• Edit - change info about your ticket
• Add New Option - create a new type of ticket option (i.e. different prices)
• Access - make specific tickets available for specific people (i.e. club members vs others)

• Look through all of these options to make sure they are what you want:
  • Reminder - sends email to guests reminding about the event the morning of the time frame selected
  • Display the list of attendees to - defaulted to only logged-on users (CMU Students). You can set it to nobody if you do not want to display that information.
  • Feedback request - You can link a form you already created to send via email after the event. 
    • To create a form, select Survey & Forms from the left panel and click Create.

• In Create, you have several options. Choose the one most suitable for your needs and then add your questions.

• Add more questions/slots - You can add questions/ delete default questions for when users register for the event.
  • Slots - this question type allow people to choose time slots when registering for an event.
• Parent event - If you have an event with multiple sessions, you can add your event inside a parent event, so only the parent event shows up on the calendar.
  • This option can be good for hackathons, conferences, or any large-scale events with multiple smaller events.
• Co-host this event - You can choose other organizations to co-host the event with. (i.e. WinECE x IEEE event)
• Event template - You can save this information as a template for future events if you will be making similar events with the same settings