Shared School Calendar

[BlueSkies]

Hi,

 

We would like to setup a shared school calendar in Outlook that all staff can view but only Office Staff can edit.

 

From the reading I have done, it seems the best way to start is with a shared mailbox that is then also the calendar.

 

Has anyone else set something like this up? Is the shared mailbox the way to go?

 

All staff are happy using Outlook for their email, so accessing a shared calendar should also be quite straightforward.

I have looked at using Teams and also Sharepoint but I think that a calendar that everyone can access via Outlook is the simplest option!

 

Any advice/suggestions would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks

[Tys]

Maybe a slightly different approach, but can your MIS help you here? Both our schools have SIMS & Salamander, with the SIMS calendar synced to O365 (so they can either view it in SIMS or in Outlook).

[jholliday95]

We use this approach with Salamander and SIMS to sync our parent info calendar, however we have recently been asked to create two further calendars which as described above can be edited by Office staff and SLT and viewed by everyone. because we believe that there is only one school diary in SIMS which can sync.

 

Created a shared mailbox users the people that can edit in this mailbox > Change default permissions for users that add the calendar so they do not just see the busy description > Showed users that need to edit how to add the shared mailbox > created a guide for users to add this mailbox.

 

Hope this is the best way this can be done, would be useful to know if multiple calendars can be synced from SIMS.

[BlueSkies]

Maybe a slightly different approach, but can your MIS help you here? Both our schools have SIMS & Salamander, with the SIMS calendar synced to O365 (so they can either view it in SIMS or in Outlook).

Thanks Tys.

Sadly we are not a SIMS school and no Salamander either :-/

So I think I'm going to head down the shared mailbox route.