Schools are very busy places. There is so much to keep track of – class timetables, tests, assignments, team practices and games, club get-togethers, and departmental meetings. Fortunately, Edsby is very good at helping keep track of all these things.
With Edsby, every class, every group, and every school has its own calendar. When teachers place an event on a calendar in, for example a class, every member of that class can see the event. Likewise, if they place an event on a school calendar, every student, parent and staff member part of that school can see the event.
Edsby Personal Calendar: Merge All Class, Group and School Events
On the Edsby home page there is a very powerful calendar panel that shows all calendar events in the calendars of all classes, groups and schools an Edsby user is a member of. Edsby nicely merges them all together to tell at a glance what is on today, tomorrow, and later this week.
Edsby knows all about school day cycles and class timetables, so staying on top of that is a snap! For teachers, Edsby even knows when they should be taking attendance, and provides them with a shortcut for doing that!
To quickly check imminent events and assessments, use the Edsby scheduleon the home screen.
Monthly Personal Calendar
Clicking on today’s date in the Edsby schedule opens a small monthly view of the Personal Calendar. Dates shaded with light blue indicates something is scheduled for that day. Dates with a straight blue line under the number indicates school is in session that day.
- Clicking on a date in the calendar displays any events for that day in the personal schedule underneath.
- Clicking the previous and next buttons jumps by month.
- To collapse this monthly view, click the month name to show only the personal schedule.
Seeing the big picture
To check events further in the future or customize the schedule, the pop-out calendar is the best tool. Access this by clicking on the icon in the upper right corner of the Edsby schedule or by clicking the Calendar icon in the Navigation bar. This gives users a classic Month/Week/Day view that makes it easy to navigate around the calendar.
Click on the arrows to navigate between months. Click today to jump to today’s date.
Customizing the calendar
Is the schedule or calendar becoming too cluttered with events from extraneous groups? Schedules and Calendars can be customized to only show the calendars from particular groups, classes, or schools.
Use the checkboxes on the left side of the personal calendar to streamline which calendars will appear in the personal calendar and schedule. Checked boxes indicate the calendars which appear in the calendar, while unchecked boxes indicate the calendar has been unsubscribed from.
In this example, the student has unsubscribed from the calendars for their district, Book Fair, Fall Fair, and Quebec City Trip. The events from the district or these groups will not be visible in their calendar or home screen schedule. The student can still visit the district or group pages and view upcoming events from there.
Customizations to the calendar are saved and do not reset when the student exits the calendar or logs out of Edsby. If students would like to resubscribe to a calendar again, they must do it manually through their personal calendar.
Accessing the calendar of a class, group, or school
- Open the class, group or school.
- Click on the calendar icon beside the schedule.
Creating Events
Creating events is easy to do. Simply go to the calendar desired to create the event in, expand the calendar, and click on the day, or the new event button. Teachers can also use the “event” button right in the class feed to create new events.
Events can be set for a specific time, or they can be all day. Edsby even knows how to do fancy repeat schedules for events so teachers can easily schedule events that occur on a regular basis.
Making it Personal
When popping out the calendar on the home page it is actually your personal calendar with events from classes and groups merged into it. Creating an event on this calendar is a personal event, and only you can see it.