It only takes a few clicks to automatically add an Event, Live Class or Webinar to your work calendar.
On your Learning Space:
Select the Events tab, and choose the event (Event/Live Class/Webinar) you wish to open.
2. Once on the landing page, select your time slot, and Book your event.
3. Once you've booked, click Add To Calendar, activating the Connect Calendar pop-up.
4. Click the calendar you want to connect, and allow the HowNow app permission to integrate with your email account.
If you hadn't previously integrated your Calendar - within your Profile - the new tab may ask you to sign in to your email account.
The time slot will then be added to your calendar, for the start time of the session.
Should the Live Class, Webinar or Event later be modified, by the Author, then the following information will be updated for the calendar entry:
Date/Time - this change currently will only be reflected on Google Calendars.
Content name
User Assignment - the slot will be removed from the your (the User) calendar, if unassigned from the Live Class/Webinar/Event.
Booking Status - the slot will be removed from your calendar, if either you or the content Author, has cancelled it, before the start of the session.
Content is deleted - the entry will be removed from your calendar, as it no longer exists
Note✨: Auto-enrolled Users will have the Live Class/Webinar/Event automatically added to their calendar.
On Your Learning Space/For You page
You will see the Upcoming box on your learning space as usual.
If you haven't connected your calendar, from within your Profile page, you'll see the options to connect.
Explore Events - this will direct you to your main Events page.
4. Once connected, all entries within your calendar - including those not associated with HowNow - will appear in the Upcoming box, alongside your booked HowNow events. You can scroll through the list here.
Google Calendar and Outlook logos will be shown next to each entry, to help you quickly identify from which calendar it belongs. HowNow bookings made will show the red HowNow logo.
Note✨: Entries in your personal calendar that are "busy" or "Out of office" will show as blank within the box, as only official time slot entries are shown here.
❗It's important to remember there are number of other factors/exceptions to bear in mind, when using the Calendar Sync feature:
The Address of an Event (location) will not get added to your calendar.
You cannot add a session time slot to your calendar, if that session has already started.
If you have a booking that is cancelled, while a session is underway, it won't be removed from your calendar.
Your bookings in the Upcoming box, will be added to your calendar, as soon as you connect it. It gets added once for Google & Outlook calendars.
If you connect to a different Google or Outlook calendar again, the entries from the previous synced calendar, in the Upcoming box, won't be re-added.
Check out our video tutorial below.
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