Saturday, December 27, 2014

Create a Calendar and Import Events


We are undergoing a change in our district right now. We have been a GAFE district for a number of years, but we are changing our domain. This sounds simple enough, the email address just changes at the end...right? Well...there is a lot more that goes into it. What about all those files in your Drive? You do realize that you can not just share and transfer ownership outside your GAFE domain. Sharing, yes. Transfer ownership...not so much. Also, all those calendars that you can not make others owners of. The list goes on. We have been migrating our @gl.k12.mi.us account to @gulllakecs.org for a few weeks now. Things are slowly showing up, sharing, and reorganizing. Slow and steady wins the race. I will be sharing some Tips and Tricks on this migration for the next couple weeks. This tip will be to show how to export events from your old (gl.k12.mi.us) account, create a new calendar, and import these events.



Create a Calendar and Import Events


Here are the steps to export calendar events from one Google Account and import them to another. You will need access to both accounts to do this.


How to export a calendar:

  1. Open the Calendar in the account you want to export from in your browser.
  2. Click on the gear and then “Settings”.

  1. Click on “Calendars”.

  1. Scroll down and click on “Export Calendar”.

  1. Your exported file will now be on your computer. Remember its location.




How to create a new calendar:

  1. Open the Calendar in the account you want to create a new calendar in with your browser.
  2. Click on the gear and then “Settings”.


  1. Click on “Calendars”.

  1. Scroll down and click on “Create New Calendar”.

  1. Name your calendar and click “Create Calendar”.




How to import the exported events into your new calendar:

  1. Open the Calendar in your account you want the events added in your browser.
  2. Click on the gear and then “Settings”.

  1. Click on “Calendars”.


  1. Scroll down and click on “Import Calendar”.

  1. Choose the exported file from your computer and choose the calendar to import these events into.


  1. Click “Import”.



If you want all these steps in a Document Click Here.