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One of the recurring requests that we’ve had on the Ideas board has been some sort of calendar integration for your eduFire appointments.  What Jared and I have just implemented allows you, from your eduFire dashboard, to add your eduFire sessions to your Internet enabled calendar such as Google Calendar, iCal, Outlook, Sunbird or another calendar that supports ics (Interest Calendar Standard) events.

Integrating eduFire with Google Calendar

Start by going to your eduFire Dashboard at http://edufire.com/dashboard.  You’ll now see some calendar links at the end of your upcoming sessions:

Now copy the url from the iCal link by using your right mouse (ctrl+click for Mac folk) since you need to paste it into Google Calendar.

(If you’re not yet a regular Google Calendar user goto your GMail account and click the Calendar link).

Once you’re in Google Calendar click the Add button and then select the Add by Url option from the drop down menu:

 

In the Add Other Calender page, paste in the url you copied from your eduFire dashboard above.

 

Now goto a date where you have a eduFire session and, voila!, you’ll see your eduFire session.

Now what’s great about both Google Calendar and Apple’s iCal is that these are dynamically updated as they change so you only have to subscribe once to your events and they’ll continue to update.

Known Issues

Due to bugs in Outlook 2003 you may not be able to have your eduFire sessions on the calendar.  Please upgrade to Office 2007 if this affects you.  Another workaround is the calendar built into Windows Vista.

Sidebar: What a Long Strange Trip it Will Be

Now whenever you implement calendaring features in a piece of software, without fail, you’ll generate some kind of bizarre error.  Here’s the one that Jared and I created yesterday:

Yes that is January 2,851,611 A.D.  Oy.  I guess that Morlocks will be able to learn to speak via eduFire.

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