To keep all your scheduled activities in one place, TalentLMS lets you sync your portal calendar to your preferred external calendar app by using the iCal feed format.
Most calendar apps (i.e., Google Calendar, Outlook.com calendar, Yahoo! Calendar, etc.) and desktop applications (i.e., Outlook, Thunderbird, etc.) support the iCal calendar feed format (i.e., iCalendar or ICS).
To import your TalentLMS calendar to one of those apps, follow these steps:
1. Sign in to your TalentLMS account as Instructor or Learner and, on the right-hand panel, click Calendar.
2. Click Export (1) and, from the drop-down list, choose Private address (2).
3. On the Export calendar with a private address dialog box that pops up, copy the provided URL and click Close.
That’s the private URL of your calendar feed to use for importing your schedule into external calendar apps.
| Note: Anyone with access to the private feed URL has access to your daily schedule. If you have reasons to believe that the URL has been shared with non-authorized parties, go to the Export calendar with a private address dialog box and click Reset address. When you reset the URL, all your existing private calendar feeds are deactivated. To activate them again, you have to update your external apps with your new private URL. |
4. Sign in to your external calendar app and add your TalentLMS calendar through your feed URL.
Here’s how to do it in five widely used applications:
A. Google Calendar
1. Sign in to Google Calendar.
2. On the left-hand panel, next to the Other calendars button, click the add symbol and, from the drop-down list, choose From URL.
3. On the dialog box that pops up, type your calendar URL in the respective field.
4. Click Add calendar.
Your TalentLMS calendar is listed on the left-hand panel, in the Other calendars section.
| Note: It may take several hours for Google calendar to sync the changes. |
B. Outlook.com Calendar
- In Outlook.com, go to your calendar.
- Click Import.
- Click Subscribe.
- Enter the TalentLMS calendar's private address in the field provided.
- Enter a name for the calendar (e.g. TalentLMS Calendar events) and choose a color.
- If you like, select a charm that will appear in every day that new events occur.
- Click Subscribe.
| Note: It might take up to 24 hours for changes to show in your Outlook.com Calendar. |
C. Yahoo! Calendar
- Go to Yahoo! Calendar
- On the left side, find "Other calendars" and click the settings icon.
- Select Follow other's calendar
- Enter a name for the calendar (e.g. TalentLMS Calendar events) and choose a color.
- Enter the TalentLMS calendar's private address in the field provided (iCal Address).
- Click Continue.
D. Outlook App
- In Outlook, Choose "Tools" and "Account Settings"
- In the dialog box that appears, click on the "Internet Calendars" tab.
- Click on the "New" link and enter the TalentLMS calendar's private address in the field provided
- Click "Add" when finished and enter a name for the calendar if you want.
- Click "OK" when finished.
E. Thunderbird App
In order to import your calendar to Thunderbird, you need to install the Lightning Calendar Add-on that adds calendar functionality to Thunderbird.
More details on what is Lightning Add-on, can be found here.
- If you have installed the Lightning add-on, create a new calendar by going to the File -> New -> Calendar.
- On Locate your calendar window, select On the network.
- Then select iCalendar(ICS) format and enter the TalentLMS calendar's private address in the field provided (Location).
- Click the Next button to continue the setup.
- Choose a name and a color for this calendar, and then you are done.