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Use Terms & Closures to add academic years, term dates, inset days and closures. Ecko can use this information to show a Term Timeline block at the end of published Editions. From here readers can subscribe to the feed in their own calendar which will automatically updated when you add or amend the term dates.

Add an academic year

1. Open Settings.
2. Select Terms & Closures.
3. Select the button for adding the next academic year, such as Add 2027-28 Terms.
4. Add the term dates and inset days for the academic year.
5. Select Save Changes.

Add the whole academic year rather than only the next term. You can add future academic years as far ahead as needed.

Edit or delete academic years

Use Edit to update an academic year that has already been added. Ecko allows users to delete the most recent academic year, but not an older academic year if there is a later one after it. This helps prevent gaps in the term date sequence.

Show term dates in Editions automatically

1. Open Settings.
2. Select Terms & Closures.
3. Turn on Automatically add to Editions if the term dates block should be added when a new Edition is created.
4. Turn on Show past terms only if readers should see all of the current year’s terms and inset days, including past ones.
5. Select Save Changes.

When Automatically add to Editions is enabled, the Term Timeline block appears after all Stories in each new Edition. Users can still manually add or remove the block from individual Editions.

Manually add the Term Timeline block to an Edition

If you have Automatically add to Editions turned off, you can still add the Term Timeline block to any edition.

1. Open the Edition.
2. Select the add block button.
3. Select the Term Timeline block.
4. Save or publish the Edition.