Import class schedule and auto-create nodes

1. To do the first thing, the easy way is to:

• Install CCK + Node import + Calendar + Date + Views
• Create a new content type and add a date field to it using CCK
• Do a dump to csv of your scheduling information, making sure that each line of the csv file corresponds to the kind of information stored in a node. At a minimum you should have a title, and a date/time field (note the date/time field is combined in this instance).
• Import the information into your Drupal site using Node Import
• Use Views to display your data, this may take some fiddling but there is a tutorial on this site on how to do it I've read

1. As for the 2nd thing, you'll need to create a custom script, which I would put into a Drupal module or have run as a Cron job, which does the syncing for you. You can construct nodes via SQL, but I think it would be easier to put the script into a Drupal module (and have it be called via something called hook_cron) and have Drupal do the syncing for you, because it is way easier to save the node info through Drupal.

Dave