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Once you have your Corporate Time account, you must go
to http://directory.umd.edu
to change your password. You will use your ARES
information to complete the password change. If you do not know your
ARES information, please call the Help
Desk at 301.405.1400 (Students) or 301.405.1500 (Faculty / Staff).
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- First, open your Corporate Time client software. You will see a Sign-In
window. (Note: the images in this document are from the Windows
version of the client software. The Macintosh version is similar.)
- Type the login ID you have been given into the User Name: box. If
you do not know your login ID, type your first and last names in the
box.
- Type your CorporateTime password into the
Password: box.
- Type the server information, calendar.umd.edu into
the Server Name: box.
- Click OK, and you will be logged in to the system.
**NOTE**: You can also login through the website https://calendar.umd.edu/ to use
the web version of the software. The web interface looks slightly
different than the client version and it also has some
limitations.
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Log in with your given ID and Password |
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There are two methods to create a meeting:
- Drag over the time (select the time slots by highlighting with the mouse
pointer).

- Type in the name of the meeting and press enter/return on your
keyboard.
OR
- Click on the New Meeting icon on the top of the screen (the icon
is the clock figure with the yellow sparkle).

- The New Meeting dialog box appears. Fill in the
information, title, location, duration of the meeting, then click the
Create button.

- Your meeting will now appear on the calendar with the information
you provided.

Inviting others to a meeting:
- Double click the meeting for which you want to invite others.
- The Edit Entry box appears.
- Inside the line labeled Add, type in the name of the person who
you wish to invite (if you wish to invite more than one person, enter
each person one by one).
- Press enter, then OK.
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- Choose Propose Meeting from the File menu. - or - While viewing the daily
calendar, hold down the CTRL key, click the mouse on the desired
meeting start time and drag the mouse to select the duration of the
meeting. A black box will indicate the selected time while you are
dragging.
- Type a title and location for the meeting.
- Click Guests and select names of people you want to invite to the
meeting. You can also choose a meeting room from this list.
- Click Schedule and pick a time that all your guests can attend, or click
Auto-Pick to find the first time that all guests are
available.
- Click Agenda (optional), and type your agenda, or cut and paste from a
document you have created in another application.
- Click Options (optional) to specify reminder or labeling options for the
meeting. (These settings are for your calendar; your guests can set
their own options if they wish.)
- Click Send Proposal to send out meeting invitations.
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- When you are invited to a meeting, that meeting will appear in
your calendar and it will have a question mark in the upper right hand
corner.
- To respond to the meeting, double click on it.
- The View Entry box will appear with the
Reply tab selected. All the details about the meeting
will appear in the upper half of the window. At the bottom of the box
you will see 3 choices:
I will attend
I will not attend
I will confirm later
- Select one of those choices and press ok
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- Click OK when you get a notification that you have an active message or
choose Messages from the View menu to see a list of your invitations
and other Meeting Maker XP messages.
- From the Active Messages folder, double-click the new message to read the
invitation. Click Guests, Schedule, or Agenda to see details about the
meeting. Click Comments if you want to send a message back with your
reply.
- To accept an invitation, click the Yes button, then click Reply. If you
cannot attend, or want to wait until later to decide, click the
appropriate button, then click Reply.
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- You must be in "day view" to see the list.
- To create an item in the list, click the edit
menu, select new then select
Task.
- The New Task dialog box appears. Type in a name
for the task in the Description: field. Select the
start time and date as well as the due date and time.
- You will also see a tab labeled Reminders. Here
you can specify if you want to be notified of an upcoming
task.
- In the Details tab, there is a section where you
can add a description about the task.

- Once you specify all the information for a task, click
OK
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- Select To-Do List from the View menu.
- Click New to create a new to-do item.
- Type a title for the item.
- Assign a date to the to-do item (optional). Use the Priority menu if you
want to set a priority for the item (for instance, High, Medium).
- Use the space provided for Notes if you want to add more
information about the item.
- To make this a group to-do item, click Participants, and specify people
you want to send the to-do item to.
- Click Reminder if you want to set a time to be reminded of the item.
- Click Create. Meeting Maker XP adds the to-do item to your list. If you
selected participants for the item, Meeting Maker XP sends them a
to-do item proposal. Click Private to keep your proxies from viewing
the item. Click Done to mark a to-do completed.
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Both have the same function, therefore use either one. You would use
one of them to add supplemental items to your calendar (items which appear
at the bottom of the calendar).
To create a Day Note or Event click on either of the "blue flag"
icon or the "push pin" icon.


- The New Day Event/Note window appears. Type in the
task inside the Title field.
- The notes are usually for personal purposes, but if you want to add this
note to another person's calendar, you may do so by typing in the name
inside the Add field.
- Click Create when you are finished.

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Banners are the equivalent
to Day Events/Day Notes in Corporate Time. |
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To create repeating meetings, double click on the meeting which you
want to repeat. Click the repeating tab.

- Select how you would like your Meeting to repeat using the
Frequency drop-down list box.
- Enter the Start date of your Meeting. You can enter it directly into the
Date box, use the arrows or click the Calendar button.
- Set the End date by selecting either the "Until" or the "For" box.
- If you select "Until," you can enter the date directly into the
Date box, use the arrows or click the Calendar button.
- If you select "For," set the duration using the drop-down list
box and type the interval in the left-hand edit box.
- Select the "Include" checkboxes to include Saturdays, Sundays and
Holidays when scheduling the recurring Meeting.
- Select the way your Agenda should handle conflicts when scheduling
repeating Meetings using the "Conflicts" drop-down list box.
- Click List Dates to view the list of dates on which your Meeting is set
to be scheduled. Make sure that you click List Dates to
display a list of all the dates on which your Meeting has been
scheduled, otherwise the meetings will NOT
repeat.
- The list will appear in the list box below. If you change
your settings and click List Dates again, the list will be updated to
reflect the changes.
- You can use the "Additional date" edit box to add additional dates not
included in the repetition you have specified. You can set the date
using the arrows to the right-hand side of the edit box or by clicking
the Calendar button. Click the Checkmark button to add the
date.
- You can delete dates by selecting them in the list box and
pressing Delete.
- Use the Shift and Control keys to delete multiple recurrences at
once.
- Click Clear All to cancel the entire list of dates.
- Click OK to return to the General tab of the New Meeting dialog
box.
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If the activity is recurring, click Frequency
and select one of the options. Click Ongoing, or pick an end
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Corporate Time provides three pre-set color schemes for meetings, based
on attendance status, meeting priority, or who created the meeting.
To change the color scheme select the Options menu,
click on Agenda.
The Agenda Properties box appears. Select an option
under Color Meetings by to change the color scheme.

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You can customize colors and labels as you choose.
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The Group Agenda gives you a more convenient way of scheduling an Entry
with several other users, instead of viewing each Agenda
individually.
- To create a group agenda.
- Click the File menu, select Open
Agenda, then click A Group Agenda. Type in
the names of the people that you want to see and click
OK.

- The Group Agenda is made up of a number of columns. The first
column, the Combined View, shows the available times of people and
Resources you selected for your Group Agenda are available. All
subsequent columns show the individual Day Views for each person and
Resource included in this Group Agenda.

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You must open each person's calendar separately, the option of a combined view for
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To set access rights:
- Click the Options menu and select Access Rights
- Select the Viewing tab.

- The Viewing tab allows you to control what Meetings, Day Events, and Daily
Notes in your Agenda will be visible to other users.
- To grant viewing rights to another user, select the person's name from
the list of users with special Access Rights shown in the list box. If
the name is not already in the list, add it using the edit box.
- Use the checkboxes to choose what viewing rights you want to give the user
for Meetings, Day Events, and Daily Notes. You set the rights separately
for Normal, Confidential and Personal Access levels (you cannot block another
user from viewing Public Entries). Note: If you only give the right to
view Busy times, the user will not be able to view Day Events or Notes
with that Access level in your Agenda.
- Instead of setting the rights for each type of Entry individually, you
can also choose to grant the user:
- Full viewing rights: The user will have rights to view all Meetings, Day
Events, and Notes.
- No viewing rights: The user will only have the right to view Public Meetings,
Day Events, and Daily Notes in your Agenda (Public Events can always be
viewed by all users).
- Same as Default: The user's rights will be the same as the Default. Select
this option if you do not want to give the person any special Access Rights
on this tab of the dialog box, but still want to keep the name on the list
in order to set his or her rights on another tab.
- You can delete a name from the list of users with special Access Rights
by selecting the name and clicking Delete. They will then revert to having
the same rights as the Default.
- If you want to modify the Default settings, select "Default: Any unlisted
person" in the list box and choose settings in the same way you would for
an individual user (see above). Click OK only when finished with all tabs
in the dialog box.
Permissions are used to grant others access to your calendar.
- To set permissions click on the Options menu, then select
Entry Defaults.
- The Entry Defaults box appears.
- You will notice 4 tabs for which you can set permissions (Meetings , Tasks,
Day Events, Daily Notes). You must set each one separately.
- The four options are:
- Public - Grants access rights to everyone
- Normal - Allows you choose the individuals that can see your
calendar
- Confidential/Personal - These settings are used to prevent
other from viewing your calendar information.
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You give people access rights to view your calendar.
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Allow someone else to manage, have read/write permissions on your calendar.
- To add a designate to your calendar, go to the Options menu and
select access rights
- Select the Designate tab.
- In the input field type in the name of the person who you would like to
give designate permissions to and press enter.

- Now the designate must be granted the appropriate access rights.

- Select Full Designate rights to give permission to modify all of
the entries. To give custom permissions, uncheck Full Designate rights
and check the desired permissions for Normal Entries, Confidential Entries,
and all the other entries individually.
- Press the OK button when done.
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A proxy is someone who has access to your calendar. Your proxies can keep track of meeting
and activities, and can print your calendar for you. You can designate specific activities
and to-do items as private if you do not want your proxy to view them.
- Choose Proxy List from the Edit menu.
- Select the users you want as proxies and click Read/Write or Read-Only.
A Read/Write proxy can change your calendar; a Read-Only proxy can only
view your calendar.
- Click OK to authorize the selected users to access your calendar.
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