The NEW! Google Calendar - Tutorial

hi there Jamie key here today welcome to teachers Tech where I explore technology weekly and this week I'm taking a look at the new Google Calendar so they have an upgraded look that you can switch to or switch back to if you'd like I'm just going to go through this tutorial just showing you how to create new calendars how do they have the events and how the settings are all how easily you can access them so let's get started on this tutorial on the new Google Calendar so I'm just gonna switch over to the new

calendar I'm just my personal gmail account right now you can see the blue button right up top here so I'm going to click use new calendar and upgrade now at any time you can switch quickly back to the old calendar just by clicking the Settings menu up here and clicking back to classic calendar and will take you back there in a second so just looking at the layout you can see I'm in my week layout that I have you can quickly change any of these by clicking on the drop down here and you'll get to whatever view you would like here we have our custom four days view I'll show you where to change that and we also have a place to show weekends and show declined events so if you want for example weekends off just click on it and if I go back to my week view I'm not gonna see I'm just gonna see my Monday through Friday so if you want it on just make sure that check marks are here for you to see now to get to my settings I can do it in a couple of different ways

I can go up to my settings menu and go this way to the settings but also we have over here if you any the calendars that you have you can click on these three little dots and you can see I can

get to the settings of the individual calendar there so I'm just going to go up to my settings here and one other thing you can play with your density and color also right here so there's a couple different options for that I'm gonna go to my settings here and the settings right now I don't have to save it all it'll automatically change after I make any adjustments you can see I have language and region timezone world clock event settings here and now down here are the view options so you can see do you want to show weekend's show declined events reduce the brightness of past events you calendar side by side and gave you so you can adjust that how you like this is where you can start your week on and here you can see if I wanted to adjust maybe to a two-day calendar I can go ahead and it's already saved and I can have alternate calendars here so if I go back to it now you can see if I drop down that I'll have a two days calendar so you can set up if you wanted a four week or three week or whatever you would like up or like you could set that up to fit whatever suits you the best creating events are just a couple clicks away so I could click once anywhere I want and it pops up with kind of a simplified event adding at any time I can go to more options and you can see how I can customize it now so I can add my title I'll just put an example here I can make it all day does not repeat just similar to the old one if I go down at my location I can add a video call very quickly just by clicking on it you can see now it's connected to hangout it's great for meetings and if you are inviting people so if you want to invite people if I look over here at the add guests you can see if I click and then I can add people down and add people to my invite list and you can see a say what guests want to do you want them to be able to modify the event invent invite others or see the guest list going down notifications are right here on it so when do you want to get notified from it so you could say email you could tell when you want I like setting these up so I like getting the email for myself and you can see how he can adjust it a little bit more my contact email for this account and you also have some visibility options for it you can

write your description here if you want to attach a doc and I almost like attaching different things if I'm having a meeting maybe a doc where people can write different things and you can collaborate on a document just simply add attachment to it you can go right in to your Doc's like so and select it to that event so I'm just going to hit save on this one so if you do a double click on any spot you can get right to that event so if I'm double clicking you can see that will add things very quickly that way and I'm just gonna hit save on this one you can adjust these by dragging them around anywhere stretching them out on it remember you have the all-day option if you do want to make it an all-day you can just simply click up here to an all-day option notice down at the bottom we also have this is more common in a lot of Google Apps that we have now the create event down here in the bottom right hand corner and it will get you to the same event adding description where you

add your title and you can justify it you can also see you have defined a time so if you wanted to compare your schedules different people you could find a time to schedule meetings that work the best here I'm just going to go exit out of this one and as soon as I make the changes things are all saved on it so that's how easy it is to quickly

add your events make it a group invite people add documents to this new calendar and what's a really great feature in this new calendar is if once you have your events created just simply click on the event and you get to see right away some option who's attending you could join the Hangout you can see the notification in a nice clear way you can see going yes no maybe and then you still have your delete event email guests and the other options right here so a quick way just to take that quick

look at all the events on your calendar adding new calendars you can do it a couple different ways you can go over if you wanted that or friends calendar just click in here I'll add one of my different accounts here and as I add it you can see now I have it right on to the calendar that I'm viewing and you remember you have options of any of these ones down here I could unsubscribe from it directly from right here or I could go to my settings and change by one of notifications from it hide from the list change the color display this only you can also quickly add new

calendars for yourself so if I created new calendar you can see the options where I could browse from interest so if you may be a favorite sports team or certain holidays from different countries around the world I'm just gonna go a new calendar on this one and then as I create the calendar Elvis call

this example and I'll just I'm gonna call this example also here and you can see the time zones I'm gonna create my calendar and then if I go back to this is all saved already I can go back and I have my example one over here I can get to the settings of any of these like showed you before just by going to the settings here when you get to your

settings you might be maybe you want to share or do different things with your calendar so if I go down this list you can see that I can make this if you wanted to share it with everybody you could make this available to the public by just simply clicking it does warn you because anything that you put on this the public would be able to see and then you can get your shareable link copy the link and send it out or put it to use that URL here and then people could view your calendar if you want to make it unpublished simply click off of it you can share people share with people very quickly so if I add people right here add people and then I'm gonna add my other account and you can see I can adjust my permissions right away make changes to advance yell event details I'm gonna say I'm gonna go if I wanted to make it this person to have all the managing and sharing I'm all hit Send now that person's gonna be invited to that calendar on it another thing notifications I like setting my notifications so if you can if you hit add notifications you can see depending on how you want them you can have an email with the events that pop up and you can set when you want everything just to be reminded of different events that you have on it so you have also some all date you can see you can have all day event notifications also there some general notifications that you can go through again you can customize these each on your own depending on how you want them the integrate calendar I like this option depending if you want to embed this into maybe a website a Google site or other ones you can get some weight you can get the iframe code from this the public URL you can see right here so use this URL to access the calendar from a web browser now if I want to customize

this embed code you can just simply click on it and you can see it gives you the example right here of the calendar here's the copy and paste of this HTML into the web page that you're going to be using but you can go through and just click off things so the title disappeared now as you can see as I click it back on and you can really customize how you want your what your calendar to look and here's a different where you could write your calendar title so once you get it all customized you just simply take this code and you can copy/paste it embed it into your website that you are using so I'm just going to close out of this one and I'll just move on with the last few things of this so also to

add a new calendar anything you can find in your settings this way - you can see at this point right here I have a calendar I can drop down and I have my new calendar browse calendars of interest and from URL so just quickly to show you if - how easy it is to put these calendars of interest on if you're interested in a different sports team or you can see different holidays that you may want so if I was going to pick maybe I'll pick a hockey team here and it'll pick an NHL team and I'm gonna go to the Calgary Flames and it's all saved here so now if I go back to it you can see if I click on the Calgary Flames I can see when they play next so you can

go through and find the calendars of interest that you're interested in following and quickly add it to your calendar now if you don't want any of these showing - just simply click off if you want to only have certain ones showing click off and then leave the ones that you want and remember when you're adding events to be selecting the right calendar when you add the events to it so I hope do you like this little tour of the new Google Calendar I think it has a fresh new look for it remember you can go back to the old one at any time by according to the settings on it and if you have liked this please hit that like button maybe share this video with a few other people and remember I do these weekly tech tips and if you like what you saw please subscribe to my channel and hit that little Bell notification so you can customize how you'd like to be notified when my new videos come out so that's all I have for today thanks for watching and I'll see you next time