Maximizing Your Communications Using iCal Calendar Created by Pat Johnson, Longview ISD, TX, Instructional Technology To Access an iCal calendar from school or home: http://calendar.lisd.org/campusname/yourcalendarname Click on a date To Edit Calendar: to add info to calendar Click here to administer your calendar. Calendar Administration Options Fill Browser Display Options Window is recommended * Consider how you want to configure these three options. * Test different arrangements first. * * General Settings: Using default settings recommended If blank, fill in You want your calendar to show in the list of all calendars Title, Header, Footer Title Text: Your Name Your email address Grade or Subject Header Text: Campus name Phone Number Conference Time Etc. Adjusting Color Color Chart sites: give you the codes for standard colors used on the Web. http://html-color-codes.com Click a link on this http://www.webmonkey.com/reference/color_codes/ calendar to make changes to the http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colornames.asp background color and/or font color in this section. Do the same for the other sections. Adjusting Fonts Change Font Type a Size here Font Name (See the next slide for a list.) Sample Font Names Arial Bank Gothic Book Antiqua Century Gothic Chalkboard Chalkboard Bold You may use this list Comic Sans MS as a sample of Cooper Black possible font choices Futura for your calendar. Geneva Helvetica Lucida Bright Lucida Calligraphy Papyrus Trebuchet MS Security Important: Password Protect your calendar so that you are the only person who is able to edit your calendar. Enter your LISD username and password for: Settings Editing Adding Calendar Entry – Click a date on the calendar to add viewable information. This text shows on the calendar day This text will appear in a popup window You may want to color- code categories of information on a date Go back to Calendar Administration Options. Event Categories Click Event Categories. Remove Checks here as appropriate Create your own category here. Enter a title, colors, etc. Click Submit Changes. You may add more than one new category. Finding other LISD Calendars To locate other LISD online calendars click the Select button in your calendar’s footer. See sample to the left. Finding other LISD Calendars Scroll through the list of calendars. If you click on the name of a Group you will see a list of calendars for that group. Finding other LISD Calendars Clicking the JMS group brings up a list of calendars for teachers at Judson MS. Clicking bchaffinla will bring up a calendar for Barbara Chaffin..