Calendar - External Calendars (Teacher)

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• 1 Overview
  • 2 Adding an external calendar to your calendar
    • 2.1 Add the calendar
    • 2.2 How events from the external calendar appear
    • 2.3 Editing or deleting an external calendar
  • 3 Showing your itslearning calendar in another calendar (iCal feed)
    • 3.1 Get the iCal feed
    • 3.2 Get the iCal feed for a specific calendar
    • 3.3 What the iCal feed contains

1 Overview

The itslearning calendar can be connected to other calendars in two directions:

• You can add an external calendar (for example, a public iCal feed) so that its events appear in itslearning.
• You can get an iCal feed for your itslearning calendar so that its events appear in another calendar, such as Google Calendar.

Both options are available to you as a teacher and only affect what you see in your own calendar.

2 Adding an external calendar to your calendar

In addition to personal, course and project events, you can add an external calendar to the itslearning calendar. Events from this external calendar will then be visible in itslearning.

2.1 Add the calendar

1. In the calendar, open the left menu and click Add external calendar.

2. In the window that opens, paste the iCal URL of the external calendar.
3. Enter a name for the calendar in the Calendar name field.
4. Click Save.

2.2 How events from the external calendar appear

Events from the external calendar are added as read-only to the itslearning calendar. It is updated every 10 minutes.

Note that even though the itslearning iCal link is updated every 10 minutes, the other calendar solution you’re using is likely to also have delays. This can be from a couple of minutes to a couple of hours, depending on the solution you are using.

2.3 Editing or deleting an external calendar

You can edit (for example, rename) or delete an external calendar from the left menu.

1. In the left menu, find the calendar under External calendars.
2. Click the … button to the right of the calendar name.
3. Choose Edit calendar or Delete calendar.

3 Showing your itslearning calendar in another calendar (iCal feed)

You can show events from the itslearning calendar in any external calendar that supports iCal, such as Google Calendar. To do this, copy an iCal link from itslearning and add it to the external calendar.

3.1 Get the iCal feed

1. Open the calendar.
2. Click the … button in the menu and choose Get iCal feed.

3. In the Select calendar list, leave the default All calendars selected. This includes your personal calendar, course calendars, project calendars and organisation calendars.
4. Click Copy link to copy the iCal link.
5. Paste the link into the external calendar that you want to use.

3.2 Get the iCal feed for a specific calendar

You can also get the iCal link for a specific calendar, for example a single course.

1. In the Get iCal feed dialog, open the Select calendar list.
2. Choose the calendar you want.
3. The iCal link updates to reflect only the selected item.
4. Click Copy link and paste it into the external calendar.

3.3 What the iCal feed contains

The iCal link contains events from the last 2 weeks and the upcoming 365 days.

More Help Resources

Have more questions? Please start with asking your school administrator.

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