Calendar Feeds (Setup)
Overview
Calendar feeds are available to:
Teachers through Staff Kiosk program Calendar > My Calendar.
Students through Student Café program eDiary > Calendars.
Parents through Parent Lounge program Calendar > eDiary.
This program allows you to:
Change the description of the feeds in Student Café and Staff Kiosk.
Indicate the colour in which each feed record will be displayed.
Indicate whether a feed will be mandatorily displayed to students in Student Café.
Maintain Calendar Feeds
Feed Types
Timetable | These feeds, in the students' and teachers' calendars, come from the TASS.web Timetable module. |
LMS / Assessment Activities | These feeds, in the students' and teachers' calendars, come from Activities created and assigned in Staff Kiosk Assessment or webBook Progressive Assessment. The Activity dates that affect these feeds are:
Extensions granted to students will determine the dates that Activities display in their eDiaries. |
Sports Fixtures | These feeds, in the students' calendars, come from sports fixtures that have been entered through Staff Kiosk program Extra Curricular > Extra Curricular Groups > Scheduling > Extra Curricular Sessions. |
PT Interviews | These feeds, in the students' and teachers' calendars, come from Parent-Teacher Interviews bookings that have been made by parents in Parent Lounge, by teachers in Staff Kiosk or through TASS.web programs Student Admin > Teacher Records > Parent Teacher Interviews. |
Boarders Leave | These feeds, in the students' calendars, come from boarders leave records that have been entered through TASS.web program Student Admin > Boarders > Leave Processing > Boarders Leave. This feed will only display if the 'Boarder school' option is ticked in TASS.web program Student Admin > Parent Records > Setup Information > Parent Records Setup. |
Pastoral Care | These feeds, in the students' calendars, come from Pastoral Care Entries that have been entered using Staff Kiosk program Pastoral Care > PC Entries. |
School Calendar | These feeds, in the students' and teachers' calendars, come from events that have been entered through Staff Kiosk program Calendar > School Calendar (Maintain) or Calendar > School Calendar (Upload). This is conditional on the event being created with the appropriate Staff Kiosk, and/or Student Café access point. |
Personal Calendar | Both Staff Kiosk program Calendar > My Calendar and Student Café program eDiary > Calendars have a facility for teachers and students (respectively) to create their own personal calendar events. If a teacher creates a personal calendar event that involves students, it will become available to students through their 'School Calendar' feed. A Personal Calendar event, that a student creates in Student Café, is not visible to their parents in Parent Lounge. |
Events & Payments | These feeds, in the students' and teachers' calendars, come from events and payments that have been entered through Staff Kiosk program Events > Adding an Event and Payment. |
Extra Curricular | These feeds, in the students' calendars, come from Extra Curricular Sessions. The Extra Curricular module needs to be setup and students correctly populated into events for the current year. |
Appointments | These feeds, in the students' calendars, come from Student Appointment records. |
Other Fields
Fields that require further explanation | |
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Feed Description | This allows you to change the description of a feed to reflect your school's terminology, e.g. 'LMS/Assessment Activities' might be 'Curriculum Activities'. |
Background Colour | Pick the background colour for each feed. |
Mandatory in SC | Mark a feed as Yes to force a feed to always open when a student enters Student Café program eDiary > Calendars. As an example, you might always want students to have their timetable open when they enter their calendar. |
Sync Date Range | Select the date range for which events will be shared with remote calendars. This applies to all users; it is not possible for individual users to select their own date range. |