What's New with Google Calendar?

You may have noticed your Google Calendar changed last week! Google refreshed the calendar app to look and feel more like their mobile app. It looks more modern, and Google simplified the way you get the information you need!

Below are a few changes I really like:

Google has improved Invitations to Calendar Events:

Google Calendar Invitees

If you are invited to a Google Calendar Event, not only will you receive an email, the event will show on your calendar based on how you've responded to the invitation:

If you’re attending an event, the event will be all one color.
If you’ve answered maybe to an event, you’ll see diagonal lines across it.
If you haven’t replied yet, you’ll just see the event’s outline.

If you said no, you’ll only see the outline and the event will be crossed out.

You have the choice of responding to the email, or clicking on the event itself. All event information will be displayed, along with the option to indicate whether you will be attending or not located at the bottom of the popup window:

Google Calendar Event Managers

Google has now improved the ease with which you can see who will be attending your event (meeting). Simply click on the event, and small popup window gives you most of the information.

Click the Arrow next to attendees, and you will see all invited attendees and their response status. Also, you can easily email all guests by clicking the envelope icon at the top.

Calendar Managers

If you are responsible for managing several other individual's schedules, using 'Day' View allows you to see other's calendars for the day, making it easy to find a common time to meet!

To view several coworkers calendars at once, check the boxes next to their names. At top right in the view switcher box, click Day. The calendars appear next to each other so you can easily see when everyone is free at the same time.

Resources:

Below are some resources you might find helpful:

Link to new Google Calendar Training

Link to 'Learn What's New in Google Calendar'

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