Show other calendars on your events page, plus Duplicate

Stop retyping dates that already live somewhere else. You can now add other calendars to your school’s events calendar, so families see the district’s no-school days, a league schedule, or any other calendar right next to your own events.

How it works. Go to Admin > Website > Events and click the new Subscribe to calendar button, next to Share. Paste in a calendar link (you can add up to 10), pick how each one should show up (Event, Holiday, No School, Early Release, Deadline, Meeting, Fundraiser, or Other), and give it a name if you like. Leave the name blank and we’ll use the calendar’s own name. In Google Calendar, open the calendar’s settings and copy the “Public address in iCal format.” In Outlook, publish the calendar and copy the ICS link. Links that start with webcal:// work too.

When you save, we check each link right away. If one isn’t a calendar, you’ll get a plain explanation on that row so you can fix it. After that, the events show up everywhere your calendar does: your admin calendar, the Events page families visit, the Events Calendar block on your website pages, and the subscription link families add to their phones. They refresh every hour, and the window shows when each calendar last updated and how many events it has. If an update ever hits a snag, you’ll see why, and the last good events stay up in the meantime.

These events are read-only here, so make changes in the original calendar. If you remove a calendar, its events come off yours too.

Also new. Planning a monthly meeting? Open any event and click Duplicate to start a new one already filled in with the name, category, times, location, and description. Change the date and save. Nothing is created until you click Save.

Two smaller touches: the calendar text is a bit larger and easier to read, and every event now shows in your school’s own time zone no matter where a family is viewing from. That means a grandparent across the country won’t see shifted times or a holiday landing a day early.