Help your community subscribe to calendars

In this Article

• Step 1: Go in and try it yourself
• Step 2: Understand what configurations exist
  • Choice #1: Two ways to subscribe to your calendar(s)
  • Choice #2: Subscribe to ALL or individual calendar(s)
• Step 3: Make adjustments to your calendar settings
• Step 4: Share this resource with your community
• Troubleshoot: Still need help? 

This article will show you how to help your community subscribe to the calendars on their students' district or school websites. 

Step 1: Go in and try it yourself

It's helpful for you to try this on your computer or another device just to put yourself into the shoes of your community members. 

• Open up one of your calendars on your live site.
• Click the Feeds icon. 

In the Subscribe to calendar window that pops up, make selections for which calendars you’d like to subscribe to.

Step 2: Understand what configurations exist

Choice #1: Two ways to subscribe to your calendar(s)

• Add to calendar: They can add a calendar directly to a default calendar app.
• Copy link: They can copy and paste the calendar URL into a personal calendar. (see third-party specific instructions below) 

Choice #2: Subscribe to ALL or individual calendar(s)

Within the Subscribe to calendar modal, visitors can decide how many calendars they will subscribe to. 

• All Public calendars on this page: This subscribes the visitor to every calendar that is connected in a particular Calendar element that is displaying the feeds icon. 
• Individual calendars: These are any calendars listed below the "All Public calendars" option allowing visitors to select individual calendars.
  • This is great for Calendars that are displaying multiple school calendars on the same page.
  • Parents and guardians can subscribe only to the school(s) that they are interested in seeing events for.

Step 3: Make adjustments to your calendar settings

Maybe Step 1 and 2 have sparked some ideas for how you can display your calendars better. Here are some resources to help you make those adjustments:

• Article on how to configure your Calendar elements. 
• Help your community engage with your calendar by adding Calendar Tools elements to your calendar pages. 
• Use Layout elements or your Page layout & appearance menu to reorder your page so that your calendars are more digestible (not too large) and more can be seen without having to scroll too far. 
• Icons not appearing? Go to Calendar element settings > General Settings > and check the box next to Display alerts and feed controls.

Step 4: Share this resource with your community

Here is a step-by-step guide for your parents and guardians so that they will know how to subscribe to your calendars. 

Ways to share: 

• Link our help article to a button labeled "How to subscribe to this calendar"
• Use a Tabs element with one tab labeled "Subscribe to this calendar" and a button inside linking to our help article.