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Adding HC Calendar to Outlook

Written By hillcollege

Last updated 12 months ago

Hill College has made available for our community to add our community calendar to their Microsoft Outlook calendar. This quick and simple setup will ensure all events are up-to-date and more are always added!

This tutorial has both visual guides and written step-by-step guides. If you are unsure on a step, look at the visual guide to see exactly what you need to do.

1. Obtain Calendar Link

Firstly, you need to access the calendar link that Outlook accepts. Follow the guide bellow to understand how to.

Visual Guide: OPEN FIRST GUIDE

  1. Head to calendar.hillcollege.org

  2. Click the menu button on the homepage (the ☰ button)

  3. Click the “iCalendar feed” button under the ‘General’ tab

  4. Scroll down and find “All sub-calendars” and click the clipboard button to copy the link

  5. Now you have your iCal link, follow the next step

2. Add Calendar to Outlook

Secondly, you now just need to "subscribe" to the Hill College calendar on Outlook. Follow the guide bellow to understand how to.

Visual Guide: OPEN SECOND GUIDE

  1. Open Outlook on web at https://outlook.office365.com/calendar/

  2. Click the “Add calendar” button on the sidebar

  3. On the popup, click “Subscribe from web” on the sidebar

  4. In the bar to input the link, paste the link you copied from the HC Calendar

  5. Name the calendar “Hill College”

  6. Give the calendar a colour, we suggest orange as this represents Hill College

  7. On the dropdown, select “My calendars” instead of “Other calendars”

  8. Finally click “Import” and Outlook will add the new calendar within your Outlook calendar

  9. Ensure that the calendar is enabled on the sidebar under “My calendars” after you have closed the popup

FAQ

Where you show/hide the calendar on Outlook’s calendar page, click the three dots and select “Remove”. This will completely remove the calendar with all the events from your calendar.

Yes, the calendar that reflects in Outlook is exactly what our calendar is. It will update the events that show anytime any event is updated or created.

At the moment, you can only use the selected sub-calendar using the link that you exported from the Hill College calendar website. You can only choose all sub-calendars or one.

If you wish to only selected calendars, you will have to export each individual sub-calendar and make each one their own calendar in your Outlook.

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