Google Calendar (GCal)

The Google Calendar on the website is created by a SeniorNet Nelson Google account so it can be used by whoever is the Course Coordinator.

• At the moment E'beth McKendry, Sue Sturrock, Hilary Carpenter and Lindsay Hunter  have permission to view and change the SeniorNet calendar
• When published on the website anybody can view it there.
• 24hr view was chosen so event names would line up. It also takes less space in the cell.
• To see a personal GCal in 24hr view change the option in personal settings (Toolbar icon top right corner / Settings / Time Format, 13:00 / Save.
• (Be aware that this will change the format for all calendars for that account)
• The course coordinator is the only person who can change the calendar, so the best way to book a time is to have the website calendar open, choose a suitable free time for an event, ring the CC to check. If it is still free the CC will then put it on the calendar and notify a website coordinator so it can be added to the Timetable.

Creating and managing a Google Calendar

Google Calendar -- www.google.com/calendar -- is a free tool that lets you build (and in our case here share) your own calendars. If you already have a Google account (if you use GMail for instance) you can sign in to Google Drive directly from there. If you don't have a Google account click the Sign up button.

The video link below (from Anson Alexander) will give you plenty of information on how to create an manage your calendar:

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=anson+alexander+google+calendar

Sharing the calendar with the world

You can use Google Calendar as your own (and private) time-management application. But in this case we want to make our calendar available to anyone accessing your business website. So once you have your calendar ready, rollover its name under My calendars and click on the down-arrow next to it, so a popup menu will appear. Select the Share this Calendar option:

Check Share this calendar with others and also Make this calendar public. This will make all the calendar information available to anyone.

How to embed a Google Calendar into your website

Information from: http://www.yourwebdepartment.com/index.cfm?id=54592&modex=blogid&modexval=15642&blogid=15642
Feb 14, 2014 5:11 PM,by Flavio Mester

Calendars can be very useful for business websites. You can use them to post upcoming events like tradeshows, conferences, new product releases, etc. A website management system like Your Web Department includes a very powerful Events Calendar tool that lets you create events and display them in different formats such as lists and monthly calendars. And you can extensively customize its look and feel. But you can also use Google Calendar for that if you prefer, and then easily insert/embed it into your business website.

Adding the calendar to your business website

Google automatically generates the code you need in order to embed/insert the calendar into your Your Web Department business website. Here's how you do it:

1. In Google Calendar, click the down-arrow next to the calendar name to display the popup dialog and selectCalendar settings. You can use that page to customize your calendar's look and feel, dimensions and other aspects.
2. At the top of the page you will see a box similar to this one, highlighted here in red. Select and copy all the text inside the box:

1. Now go to your website's administration interface in Your Web Department and navigate to the page where you'd like to embed/insert the Google Calendar. Click Add content in the YWD toolbar, and then Embed Code. Paste the code you just copied there, and save.
2. Preview the page and you'll see the calendar embedded there:

You can go back to Google Calendar and change its dimensions, colours, etc. then grab their code again.