Subscribe to School Calendar Events on Your Mobile

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Subscribe to School Calendar Events on Your Mobile
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Interested in being kept up-to-date with all the happenings in your child's school? We've got you covered! You can now "subscribe" to any of our school's calendars, on your mobile, and know exactly what events are upcoming.

Gone is the need to constantly check your school's website calendar or call the school directly for questions regarding their schedule of events. To keep track of upcoming events at your school, you can "subscribe" to any of our school’s calendars using Google Calendar. 

Detailed instructions for Google Calendar users can be found below.

We hope this is a useful tool. If you have any questions please feel free to call the Olympia School District Communications Department at (360) 596-6103.


Google Calendar Instructions

 

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Subscribing to a School calendar

  • On a desktop computer, navigate to the school homepage
  • Scroll down and go to the Calendar page
  • On the calendar, click the Share button located in the upper-right corner
  • Select “iCal/RSS Feed”
  • In the section titled “iCal Feeds,” click the “Copy” button. This will copy the URL of the calendar to your clipboard
  • Navigate to your Google Calendar - https://calendar.google.com
  • At the bottom left, click the “+” button within the “Other calendars” menu
  • Select “From URL”
  • Paste the link copied in step 5 into the “URL of calendar” field
  • Click “Add calendar”
  • A calendar will appear at the bottom left, within the Other Calendars section
  • To change the name of the new calendar, hover over the new calendar and click the “Options for Calendar” button
  • Select “Settings”
  • Enter the desired name into the “Name” field

 

School calendar events will now appear within your Google calendar and can be viewed via an Android or iPhone device.

  

Unsubscribing from a School Calendar

  • Navigate to your Google Calendar - https://calendar.google.com
  • Locate the school calendar under the ‘Other calendars’ menu at the bottom left
  • Hover over the calendar. An “X” will appear – select it
  • A prompt will appear confirming you want to remove the calendar
  • Select ‘Remove Calendar’

 

If you encounter issues with your Google Calendar, please reach out to Google Support.