School Calendar

[colly72]

We are looking at the best way to publish our calendar online. We currently have a Wordpress website and my thoughts are to import a Google Calendar using a plugin, or simply embed it in a page. We are also looking at Firefly and if their Calendar works well, then that might be the best option. Would appreciate if anybody can share how they publish their calendars.

 

Thanks in advance.

[Jamman960]

We use timely calendar for Wordpress on our website, we originally synced this with google but have ended up creating the draft calendar in exchange/outlook then importing via the csv plugin(also accepts ics files) in order to import it with categories/tags attached

[kidpressingbuttons]

We use Microsoft flows to sync a shared calendar in office 365 with a google calendar displayed with iframes on our website.

[gh5000]

We have a Google sheet with every event in the school. There is a column which is marked to indicate if the event is public. A Google script then exports these to a couple Google calendars (internal and public).

 

We used to embed the Google calendar on the website but have recently updated it to a joomla plugin which shows the events from the Google calendar

[SimonHooker]

I've had a lot of success making custom feeds for FullCalendar (https://fullcalendar.io/) and have also seen some nice calendars done using Calendarize it! for Wordpress ( https://calendarize.it/ ). If you are already using Wordpress, that might be a good starting point. Other than that you may need to look to Firefly. I know a lot of schools also use SOCS for their calendar as I've had to import data from there previously. I have no idea whether that is sufficient for your purposes though.

[HPlum78]

For a Office 365 shared cal you could publish the cal using the PS commands?

 

set-mailboxcalendarfolder [email protected]:\calendar -publishenabled $true -detaillevel fulldetails

 

then run the following command get-mailboxcalendarfolder [email protected]:\calendar | FL

 

Copy the link that has been generated from the PublishedCalendarUrl attribute in to your browser and see if it looks like what you are after. Then you can just embed that in your website/ do what you want from there

[derf]

I've taken another approach with our on-premises exchange server using the EWS service, interfaced through PHP and a simple views (month/today/upcoming events/agenda), calendar is checked every 15 minutes and updated if changes are present. The added bonus is we get a full staff calendar and a more parent friendly one. Before we published in outlook to the ical format, however it was bad at parsing multiday events. I assume this would work as expected with an Azure exchange instance, can share details if anyone is interested.