Connecting an Outlook Calendar to Your Group
Overview
This article details how group admins can sync your group-wide Outlook calendar to ReachWell in order to share with contacts and families.
Don't use Outlook Calendars? Learn how to connect a Google Classroom Calendar or Schoology Calendar or Google Calendar.
Instructions
- Make sure you have a family-facing calendar in Outlook by clicking New calendar from Outlook.
- You and other collaborators should add any events to this calendar
- Navigate to your ReachWell Dashboard > Organizations > Groups page.
- Select Update Under the Calendar column
- Scroll down to Calendars.
- Check the Outlook Calendar box (if it's already connected, select Change Outlook Account).
- A pop-up window will appear instructing you to sign in with your Outlook credentials.
- After signing in, you will be redirected to the ReachWell Dashboard. Using the drop down arrow select the calendar you would like to share.
- Select Submit.
Troubleshooting Missing Events
If a calendar event is not showing in ReachWell from a synced calendar, there are typically two reasons why this would occur
- The calendar that is synced to ReachWell is not being shared publicly. Visit THIS article for Outlook instructions.
- Or, the event was added to your personal calendar rather than the calendar synced to ReachWell.