iCal-+Subscribe+to+Google+Cals

iCal is the calendaring program that comes with our Macs. Links are provided here so that you may click on them and add the menu calendar right into your iCal Calendar on the Macintosh. These calendars are Google calendars that are embedded in our school website.

1) By using iCal as your 'home base' for calendars, you can subscribe to many different calendars and tie them all together. 2) iCal has many great features such as Alarms that will help remind you of events you may need to attend. 3) You may turn on, with check boxes, only the calendars you want to view or print. 4) Different calendars are color coded to help with organization. 5) Your iCal is tied to Mail. You may highlight part of an email, right click and add the item to the To Do list in your iCal. (I use this all the time to manage tech help requests.) 6) You may view & print any combination of calendars you want. 7) You may right click on an email item in Mail and add it to our To Do list in iCal with one more click.
 * What advantage would that have for you?**

Perhaps you are frustrated with the way the NM Menu Calendar appears in Google- cutting off some menu items?? Google designs their calendar to be clickable and interactive. They truncate the text in the month view to fit more events into that layout. They assume you would be using the computer to view and manage many events (21st century skill) vs paper printing a static copy (20th century).

Using iCal, you could print only your Cafeteria Menu to paper and have control over the font size, layout, etc.

https://www.google.com/calendar/ical/northmahaskacal%40gmail.com/public/basic.ics
 * School Event Calendar - use this to link in iCal**

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 * School Menu (Cafeteria) Calendar - use this link in iCal**

Click on the above link. You may be asked to open basic.ics with iCal (default) Click OK. Then you will have an Add Events window. I advise selecting New Calendar with the pop down and OK. You will now have a North Mahaska Cafeteria Menus calendar in iCal. You are subscribed to it and any changes that are made.

Learn More:
 * The Mac U is a great source of How To info.**
 * Basics of iCal:** @http://www.themacu.com/tmublog_files/icalinterface.html
 * Setting an alarm to remind of an event:** @http://www.themacu.com/tmublog_files/alarm.html
 * MenuCalClock addition - we are considering adding this** @http://www.themacu.com/tmublog_files/calclock.html