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How To: Share my Homeschool Planet Calendar with Apple Calendar

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Adding your Homeschool Planet calendar to Apple Calendar

  1. In Calendar on your Mac, choose File … New Calendar Subscription.
  2. Paste the address you copied from Homeschool Planet’s “Share Out” feature into the input field labeled “Calendar URL”, then click the “Subscribe” button. (See “How To: Share my Homeschool Planet Calendar” for details on where to find this address.)
  3. Enter a name for your calendar in the Name field, and choose a color if you want.
  4. Change the value in Auto-Refresh to tell Calendar how often to check with Homeschool Planet for updates.
  5. Click OK.
  6. Your Homeschool Planet events will now be displayed on your Apple Calendar.

Note: Apple Calendar has no support for assignments; they will not be shared into your Apple Calendar.

How To: Share my Homeschool Planet Calendar with Google

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Adding your Homeschool Planet calendar to Google Calendar

  1. Go to your Google calendar page.
  2. In the left column, open the menu next to the heading “Other calendars”, and choose the “Add by URL” option.

  3. Paste the address you copied from Homeschool Planet’s “Share Out” feature into the input field labeled “URL”, then click the “Add Calendar” button. (See “How To: Share my Homeschool Planet Calendar” for details on where to find this address.)

  4. Your Homeschool Planet events will now be displayed on your Google Calendar.

Note: Google controls how often it gets updates of your events from Homeschool Planet.  It appears to update only a few times a day, so there may be a delay between the time you make a change in Homeschool Planet and the time that change is reflected in Google Calendar.

How To: Share Calendars with Other Applications

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Using “Share Out”

Share Out allows you to display your Homeschool Planet calendar within another calendar application (such as Google Calendar or Apple Calendar).  You can share different versions of your calendar, each containing a different selection of events from your Homeschool Planet calendar.

To display events from Homeschool Planet in another calendar application, follow these steps:

  1. Under the “Settings” menu, choose “Share”.
  2. Select the “Share Out” tab, if it is not already selected.
  3. Click on the “Share my Homeschool Planet calendar with others” link.
  4. Give this calendar a name (for your reference).
  5. Highlight the address displayed in the white box, and copy it using your browser’s “copy” function.
  6. Click “Save”.

    Important: You must save before continuing to step 7, or the address will not be activated.

  7. Paste that address into the appropriate place in your other calendar application (see the Homeschool Planet help article “How To: Share my Homeschool Planet Calendar” specific to your application).

Using “Share In”

Share In allows you to display a calendar from another Internet calendar application (such as Google calendar or Apple iCloud Calendar) on your Homeschool Planet calendar.  You can add many such calendars, and for each you can choose which students will see that calendar when the student logs in.

To display events from another calendar inside Homeschool Planet, follow these steps:

  1. Under the “Settings” menu, choose “Share”.
  2. Select the “Share In” tab, if it is not already selected.
  3. Click on the “Display scheduled events from another calendar in Homeschool Planet” link.
  4. Copy the address for the iCal-formatted version of your calendar from your other calendar application (see the Homeschool Planet help article “How To: Finding the Share In Address” specific to your application):
  5. Paste the address you copied in step 4 into the “URL for this Internet calendar” field.
  6. Give the calendar a name (anything you like, for your reference only).
  7. Choose a color for this calendar.  Events from this Internet calendar will all display in your calendar in this color.
  8. Choose which students will see this calendar when they log in.
  9. Choose “Save”.

How To: Display the Weekends

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You can control whether or not Saturday and Sunday are displayed on the Calendar or Planner by clicking either of the “S” buttons near the top of the display. The weekends will also print if they are visible when you choose Print from the menu.

You can also control whether the weekends are positioned at the left or right side of the calendar, or even split with Sunday on the left and Saturday on the right.  Use the “Settings” menu, and choose “General”.  In the Account Settings dialog that appears, change the “Week starts on:” setting:

  • Monday – weekends will be on the right
  • Saturday – weekends will be on the left
  • Sunday – weekends will be split

Choose “Save” at the bottom of the dialog to save your choice.