Google Calendar

Google Calendar is the calendar feature offered with Google Apps for Education. It allows users to easily create, share, edit, and delete meeting invitations, calendar events, and tasks. These are easily accessed and synced between computers and mobile devices.

Launch Google Calendar

Announcements

December 2, 2024

New look and feel for Google Calendar on the web, including the option to use dark mode. Read more about this new look.

Features

Access Anywhere

Access Google Calendar on computers or mobile devices (even offline). Calendars sync, so you can create an event on your computer and receive a notification on your phone. For the best mobile experience, use the Google Calendar App.

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Work with Others

Google Calendar allows you to have private or shared calendars. You're not limited to one calendar either: you can create shared calendars for projects and request a request a resource calendar to reserve rooms and equipment.

Get Organized

Set up notifications to pop-up at set time before your event and create reminders, to-do lists that carry over until marked done. On mobile devices, use the Google Calendar App.

Frequently Asked Questions

New Calendar

I have side by side calendars enabled but my calendars don't appear side by side in Day view. Why?

General Information

How do I access Google Apps from locations where Google is restricted?
How do I add web calendars and events to Google Calendar?
How do I create appointment slots in my calendar that others can book?
How do I customize my Calendar (change the view/enable Labs/add Google calendars)?
How do I modify Google Calendar event notifications?
How do I set up a recurring (repeating) meeting?
How do I view availabilities for Guests (Google and Exchange Users) in a Calendar Event?

Importing/Exporting

How can I add multiple events to my Google Calendar at once? (Importing Calendar Events from CSV)
How do I export Stony Brook Google Calendars I own (perhaps to get my Stony Brook Google Calendar events in my personal Google Calendar)?

Resource Calendars

How do I book a resource/room in Google Calendar?
How do I create repeating events when scheduling a room in Google Calendar?
How do I give people access to book my calendar resource?
How do I prevent double-booking on a Resource Room's calendar in Google Apps?
How do I subscribe to a Stony Brook resource calendar?
How do I view availability of a calendar resource?
What are Google Resource (room/equipment) Calendars and how do I get one?

Sharing

How can I embed Google Calendars on a web page?
How do I add a coworker's calendar to my Google Calendar/accept invitations for him/her?
How do I attach a file and share it with guests when creating a Google Calendar event?
How do I share an @stonybrook.edu Google Calendar?
How do I share my first.last@stonybrook.edu Google Calendar so Stony Brook users can see my free/busy time?
How do I share my personal Google Calendar with my Google Apps for Education Calendar account?

Troubleshooting

My Zoom for Google Add-on doesn't show my first.last email address but a really long complicated one. OR Zoom in the LMS isn't working. Why and how can I fix this?
Why do I see different events when I view a calendar compared to when someone else views it?
Why do some of the invitations I receive give me the option to RSVP "Yes/Maybe/No," while others just have an "Add to Calendar" link?
Why don't I see event responses for some guests and how do I respond to Google invitations in Outlook?

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