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Getting Started with Oracle Calendar

Once known as CorpTime, Oracle Calendar is calendar software that Dartmouth licenses for use by faculty, staff, and students at Dartmouth. It allows for individual and group scheduling. Faculty and staff who want to start using Oracle Calendar should send an e-mail to help@dartmouth.edu to request an Oracle Calendar account; students automatically have an account.

• To Install
• To Use on the Web
• To Configure
• To Login
• To Change Your Password
• To Quit

To Install

• Download Oracle Calendar for Windows
• Download Oracle Calendar for MacIntosh
• Download Oracle Calendar for Linux

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To Use on the Web

• Faculty and staff: Go to the Faculty/Staff Web Client link.
• Students: All students have an Oracle calendar account. Go to the Login page to access.

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To Configure

Once you have installed the Oracle Calendar software, you will need to configure it before you can use it. To do this:

• Double-click on the Oracle Calendar application; the Sign-In dialog box will appear. Click Other, then New.
• In the Connection Name field, enter Dartmouth.
• In the Server field, enter corptime.dartmouth.edu. Click Lookup.  
• You're prompted with connection configuration information. Choose Configure At Login From User Name, then click Configure.  
• Back in the Connection Editor window, click OK.
• Select Dartmouth from the list, then click Make Default, then OK (Windows ) or Done (Macintosh).

You will only need to make these configuration settings once.

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To Login

• Enter your User Name [your complete Dartmouth Name Directory (DND, aka BlitzMail)] in the User Name field. If you do not know your User Name, click on the Search (magnifying glass) button to browse the current users in the database. Note that if your DND name includes a middle initial, the middle initial should not include a period after it. The User Name should appear as John T Doe.
• Enter your DND password.
• Click Sign-In.

Now when you sign into Oracle Calendar on your computer, your User Name and Server Name will be automatically provided in the Sign-In dialog box.

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To Change Your Password

Your Oracle Calendar password is the same as your DND (aka BlitzMail) password. When you change your DND password, your online Oracle Calendar password will automatically be changed. (If you have elected to have a copy of your calendar offline, that offline calendar will continue to use your old password.)

Note: Some versions of BlitzMail allow you to enter passwords that are longer than eight characters. Oracle Calendar will not accept these passwords. If you are having issues, change your BlitzMail password to something that is exactly eight characters long. You should always change your password using the Change Password option in BlitzMail (from the BlitzMail menu, select Edit DND Entry, then click the Change Password button). Do not change your password in Oracle Calendar.

When logging in to Oracle Calendar on a Windows computer, if you use your middle initial, the logon attempt will fail if you enter a "period" (.) after the initial. It is best to use no period in the User Name field.

Tip: Passwords are case sensitive, so pay close attention to the position of the [caps lock] key.

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To Quit

• On a Macintosh, select Quit Oracle Calendar from the Oracle Calendar menu.
• On Windows, select Exit from the File menu.

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