If you’ve used Google Calendar, you are probably aware that you have your own calendar for work related events. But did you know that with Google Apps / G Suite you can create additional calendars to schedule and track other events? For instance, you can create a family calendar to schedule your kids’ soccer games or swim lessons. You can also create a calendar specifically for your team or department at work. Having a team calendar is a great way to track:
● Who’s on vacation, or going on vacation, and for how long
● Who’s out of the office on a business trip and when they’ll return
● Who’s taking a class and where
With all this information tracked in one calendar, it’s then easy to:
● Plan team meetings
● Determine dates for team outings
● Schedule who can handle projects
Create your new calendar
To create a new calendar, click the down arrow next to My calendars and select Create new calendar
Define your new calendar
On the Create New Calendar screen, provide the following information:
● Calendar Name: Provide a descriptive name for your calendar as this is what you and others will see in the My calendars section of the main calendar.
● Description: A description is optional but provides the team with some basic information about the calendar when they view the calendar on the Calendar Settings screen.
● Location: Location is also optional and is really only necessary if your calendar is made public.
● Calendar Time Zone: Select the country and time zone for your calendar.
Share your new calendar
In the next sections of the Create New Calendar screen, you’ll select who can see what level of calendar details and who can edit and manage your calendar.
Share this calendar with others
This setting enables you to either share the calendar publicly or just within your organization. After making a selection, you can then select what viewers are allowed to see when they view the calendar. The options available are defined by your Google Apps administrator. For our team calendar, we want everyone within our organization to be able to view the calendar’s event details but only a select group to be able to edit or add new events.
Share with specific people
This setting enables you to define a specific group of individuals to view, modify, or manage the calendar.
To add your team:
1. Enter their email addresses one by one in the Person field (see image below).
2. Define their permission settings:
● Make changes AND manage sharing: select this option if you want the individual to add or modify event, but also to manage the calendar. With ‘manage’ permissions, the individual can, for instance, add new members to the calendar or add the calendar to a Google Site page.
● Make changes to events: select this option if you want the individual to be able to add and modify events on the calendar.
● See all event details: select this option if you only want the individual to view the events, but not modify or add events.
● See only free/busy (hide details): select this option if you only want the individual to view events as ‘Busy’.
3. Click “Add Person”.
Note: You may discover that as you enter an individual’s email address, the email address auto-completes. After selecting it, it may then appear in a list below. If this is the case, define their permission option at this point and omit step 3.
4. After adding all your team members and defining their permissions, click Create Calendar.
Note: If you forget to add an individual or need add a new team member in the future, return to this section and add add them to the list following the steps above. If you need to remove an individual, simply return to this section and click the trash can icon to the right of their listing.
Use the calendar
After creating the calendar, it should now be visible in the My calendars section of your main calendar. If it doesn’t display immediately, you may need to refresh your browser window. Now when you create a new event, you have the option of creating it on your personal calendar or on your new team calendar.
Tip:
It’s easy to display events on one or more calendars. Let’s say you create the above event on your team’s calendar. You can quickly copy it to your own calendar without having to re-create it.
1. Open the event details screen.
2. From the More Actions… drop-down menu, select the calendar you wish to copy the event to.
3. Click Save.
Now when you view your calendar, you will see the event listed twice – once on your personal calendar and also on the team calendar.
And remember, if you want to hide the team calendar on your personal calendar, simply click its name in the My calendars section. To view it again, just click the name a second time.
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Source: University of Santa Cruz Information Technology Services – Google Apps | Tips & Tricks
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