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Add brightwheel calendar events to your personal calendar

[For all users] Learn how to sync your program calendar to your personal calendar.

Written by Audrey
Updated today

Admins, staff, and families can sync brightwheel events with their personal calendars to stay on top of school activities. Staff can also sync their work schedules.

Simply add your brightwheel calendar to Google, Apple, Outlook, or another app, choose which event types to include, and it will automatically sync.

What gets synced

When connecting your program events to your personal calendar, you can choose which types of events you’d like to see.

Staff & Admin

Guardians

  • School events

  • My schedule

  • Student schedules

  • Other staff schedules

  • School events

  • Sign-up slots

Getting started

To connect your calendar, you'll first need to login to brightwheel on the web or mobile app, then take the steps below. Events will automatically sync after you subscribe and any changes to events can take up to 24 hours to appear.

💡 Not seeing the option to sync? Contact your program administrator as they’ll need to enable personal calendar integrations in their settings before you can connect.

For families

On the app

On the web

  1. Click on your child’s profile

  2. Hit the Calendar icon

  3. Select the gear (top right)

  4. Choose event types to sync

  5. Tap Add to Calendar to complete the sync

  1. Click Calendar on the left sidebar

  2. Select the gear icon (top right)

  3. Choose event types to sync

  4. Click Add to Calendar to complete the sync

For staff

On the app

On the web

  1. Open Calendar
    (iOS: ≡ menu → Calendar | Android: Calendar tab)

  2. Tap the gear icon (top right)

  3. Choose the event types to sync

  4. Select Add to Calendar to complete the sync

  1. Click Calendar in the sidebar menu

  2. Select the gear icon (top right)

  3. Choose the event types to sync

  4. Click Add to Calendar to complete the sync

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