Calendar walkthrough

1. Calendar walkthrough

The Google Calendar Main Menu occupies the left side of the window. Select the Main Menu icon to collapse and expand it. The Create button opens an event creation window with the current time and date. Add a title, set a date and time, and select Save to quickly add an event. We'll cover creating events in more detail shortly. Directly below the Create button is the mini calendar. Use the mini calendar to quickly select a month and date to view on your calendar. Today's date will be highlighted by a blue circle on the mini calendar. To quickly create an event with guests, use the Search for People box to type the name or email address of people to invite and press Enter to open an events detail window. There are two lists of calendars, My Calendars and Other Calendars. The My Calendars list contains your primary calendar and calendars you create. It will also contain any calendars that have been shared with you if you've been given permission to make changes and manage sharing for that calendar, Your primary calendar is your default calendar, where you will create your events, and it's also the calendar that displays events you've been invited to. The Other Calendars list contains calendars that you may have subscribed to, or calendars have been shared with you and you do not own. This may be colleagues' calendars, holiday calendars, sports calendars, and public calendars on the Internet. Along the top of the Google Calendar window, the Today button will return you to the current date view of your calendar from wherever you're viewing in the past or future. The arrows will move you to the previous or next week view of your calendar. Select Search to find events by keywords, participants, or organizers, locations or rooms, or date range. The support button has links to documentation and training on Google Calendar. The Settings menu button has links to Google Calendar settings, trash for deleted events, density and color options, and print preview. Your organization may also allow the installation of Google Calendar add-ons, which give it additional features and capabilities. Explore the add-ons in the Google Workspace Marketplace by selecting Get Add-ons. Select View to switch views of your calendar. The button will display the name of the view that is currently selected. By default, it will be the week view, but you can easily switch to day, month, year, schedule, and custom day range views. There are also options to display weekends and declined events. Both of these are enabled by default.

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Google Workspace End User: Google Calendar

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This module covers the agenda. It also introduces students to On the Rise and the course business challenge.

Exercise 1: Course introduction Exercise 2: Agenda

Google Calendar enables you to easily schedule meetings and events, create tasks, and collaborate on shared calendars, so you always know what’s next. In this module you’ll learn how to open and navigate Google Calendar.

Exercise 1: Introduction to Google Calendar Exercise 2: Calendar walkthrough

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Exercise 3: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 4: Quiz Question 2

With Google Calendar, you can easily reply to event invitations and manage the events that you create. This module explores how the features of Google Calendar allow you to update events, check guest attendance, delete and restore events, and search Google Calendar.

Exercise 1: Respond to and manage events Exercise 2: Activity 3 explained Exercise 3: Activity 3 Use Google Calendar search Exercise 4: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 5: Quiz Question 2

Google Calendar allows you to adjust settings to match the way you work. Now that we’ve covered the key features of Google Calendar, we’ll look at how to customize it further using a few of the different settings available.

Exercise 1: Customize Google Calendar Exercise 2: Quiz Question 1 Exercise 3: Quiz Question 2