Google Calendar Essential Training

Google Calendar Essential Training

1h 38mBeginner2023-04-11

Authors

Jess Stratton

Jess Stratton

LinkedIn Learning Staff Author, Tech Consultant

Course details

Manage your personal and professional schedules more effectively with Google Calendar. In this concise course, staff instructor Jess Stratton shows how to get started scheduling events, keeping track of your to-dos, and accessing it all on the go. Jess begins by showing how to change the way Google Calendar looks and acts to make it better suit your needs. Next, she moves straight into creating single or repeating events, inviting guests, and adding rooms and resources to an event. She demonstrates how to respond to invitations, and covers the ins and outs of pop-up reminders and email notifications. Jess also shows how to create an additional calendar, share your calendar with others, and access your Google Calendar on your phone or tablet.

Skills covered

G SuiteGoogle CalendarPersonal Productivity SoftwareGoogleEssential TrainingBusiness Software and Tools

Concepts

Introduction

  • Be a schedule champion with Google Calendar

Get Started with Google Calendar

  • Explore the interface
  • Change the way the calendar looks
  • Set working locations and hours

Create and Edit Events

  • Create a calendar event
  • Create all-day and repeating events
  • Create appointment schedules
  • Set focus time to work undisturbed
  • Edit and delete a calendar event
  • Invite guests to an event
  • View a guest's availability
  • Add a room or resource to an event
  • Work with notifications and alarms

Respond to Invitations

  • Respond to an event invitation
  • View responses to your invitations

Create Additional Calendars

  • Create a secondary calendar
  • Create events on a secondary calendar
  • Hide and delete calendars
  • Search your calendars

Share Calendars with Others

  • Open someone else's Google Calendar
  • Subscribe to an ICS calendar
  • Share your calendar with others
  • Share your calendar with a non-Google user
  • Make a calendar public and set busy and free time

Mobile, Desktop, and Insights

  • Use the Google Calendar mobile app
  • Access Google Calendar on a desktop
  • Use Time Insights to see how you spend time

Conclusion

  • Google - A calendar app and so much more
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