Manage Google Calendar

1. Manage Google Calendar

Welcome to Module 2, Manage Google Calendar. Google Calendar makes it easy to set up events and share information. In this module, we'll explore how to schedule events, add video conferencing with Google Meet, attach documents from Google Drive, and set visibility and notifications. You can create a new event within Google Calendar by either selecting Create, or by selecting an empty time slot on the calendar grid. In the event window, select Add Title and type a title for your event. In addition to events, you can add out of office times, tasks, and appointment schedules. We'll cover those in more detail later in the course. The next step is to select a date, start time, and an end time. If your event covers multiple days, select the date the event ends. Events that encompass one or more full days will appear at the top of the calendar grid. Optionally, you can add a location for the meeting. Google Calendar will suggest nearby locations when you type an address. Your guests that use Google Calendar can view the event details and select the location to open it in Google Maps. Select More Options to see and modify additional event details or select Save to add the event to your calendar. In the Event Details window, select All Day to make your events start at 12:00 a.m. on the start date, and end at 11:59 p.m. on the end date. Again, all-day events appear at the top of the calendar grid for the days they are scheduled. Events can occur just once or they can be scheduled to repeat. Google Calendar has options to repeat an event daily, weekly, monthly, annually, and on every weekday. If none of those options is appropriate, choose Custom Recurrence and set the recurrence properties you require. For example, you might want to create a project review meeting that occurs Monday and Thursday of each week for 12 weeks only. In this example, you would choose a custom recurrence because this allows you to choose an end date for the meeting either by choosing a date or by specifying a number of occurrences.

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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 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