Get It Done: Sharing Calendars

So You Need To Share A Calendar With Your Group? Learn 10 Effective Ways

Teacher : Chip Reaves Learner : Meg Pierson

How Do You Let Everyone Know What’s Going On?
It’s a common situation: you’re working in an organization or department, and you need to share a calendar with your team. Whether it’s staffing schedules or company holidays, this course will demonstrate ten different ways you can share a calendar among your coworkers, including both physical (printed) and online calendars.

Many people make do with makeshift calendars taped on a wall or emailed around the group, where updates require handwritten adjustments or another email out to the group. There is a better way – in fact in this course we’ll take a look at ten different ways you can professionally share your calendar among a group or team.

Topics covered include:

• Using calendar templates with Microsoft Word
• Printing calendars via an outside service
• Creating and editing a calendar with a free Google account
• Sharing a Google calendar with others
• Sharing your personal Office 365 calendar
• Using a shared calendar using SharePoint, Groups, or Teams
• Creating a shared resource calendar in Office 365

Taught by 25-year IT veteran and Microsoft Silver partner Chip Reaves, Get It Done – Sharing Calendars is designed for anyone from beginners to experts who want to share calendars among a group or team.

Objectives – You will be able to:

• Describe software programs and 3rd party services that can be used for printed calendars
• Demonstrate using free or paid Google accounts to create a shareable online calendar
• Discuss the pros and cons of Office 365 individual calendars compared to calendars from Groups, Teams, or shared mailboxes
• Evaluate the use of third party calendar services such as TeamUp for calendar sharing
• Describe how to integrate Google, Microsoft, or TeamUp calendars into a website

About Get It Done courses: Get It Done courses are task-based training courses developed by Bigger Brains. Each course focuses on a common business task such as managing email, organizing files, or sharing calendars, and provides recommended tools, techniques, and best practices to “get it done”.