With Calendars, you can keep everyone informed about upcoming events at your school. You can create a new calendar view from scratch, or choose to show existing event categories that have already been created for another calendar on your site.
Navigate to the area of the website where you would like to create a calendar category.
Select Calendar from the Create tab. The Calendar dialogue window will appear.
Enter a view name for your calendar in the Calendar Name field.
Creating a calendar with a new event category
To create a calendar with a brand new event category, ensure the Calendar Events drop-down is set to Create a new event calendar.
Enter a category name for your calendar in the Category Name field.
Select the Category Type drop-down:
General Events are standard calendar events.
Background Events appear as blocks on your calendar. This might be useful for colour-coding week numbers.
Pick a Category Colour from the selector; or if you know the hex colour code, type it in the field provided e.g. #9B59B6
Click Create to save your calendar category and view.
Creating a calendar using existing event categories
Ensure the Calendar Events drop-down is set to Display existing calendar events.
A list of available calendar categories will appear in the right-hand column. Select each calendar that you would like to appear in your calendar view.
Click Create to save your calendar category and view.
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If enabled, your calendar can integrate with Office 365, Microsoft Exchange or Google. Events will automatically synchronise on your website at set intervals, preventing duplication of work between internal systems and your website. Once enabled an Admin User can authorise the integration.
