The calendar shows a week at a time and is designed for a phone. Behind it are private calendar feeds that put the same lessons into whatever calendar app you already use.
The week view
Calendar shows the current week with today highlighted. Use the arrows or Today to move around, the + on a day to add a lesson there, and tap any lesson to open it. The colour bar on each lesson shows its outcome: attended, cancelled, late or no-show, excused. A Confirm? badge means the lesson has passed and is waiting for you to say what happened.
See your lessons in your own calendar
Open Subscribe to this calendar at the bottom of the calendar page (the link is also in Settings). Then:
- Google Calendar: press Add to Google Calendar, or in Google Calendar on the web choose Other calendars, From URL and paste the link.
- Apple Calendar (iPhone, iPad, Mac): press Add to Apple / Outlook, or in Settings on the phone go to Calendar, Accounts, Add Account, Other, Add Subscribed Calendar and paste the link.
- Outlook: Add calendar, Subscribe from web, paste the link.
This is a subscription, not an import: lessons you add, move or cancel in My Studio Tracker update in your calendar app by themselves. Edits made in the calendar app do not flow back.
A calendar for each student
Every student has their own feed with only their lessons. It is on the student's page under Calendar feed, and every invoice's pay page offers it too, so parents can add the lessons to their phone without you doing anything.
How quickly changes appear
Calendar apps decide how often to check a subscribed calendar. Google Calendar typically refreshes every few hours up to about a day; Apple Calendar lets you choose the interval in the subscription's settings; Outlook is similar. A lesson you add now may take a while to appear in the app, though it is instant on the My Studio Tracker calendar and on the pay page.
Reset a calendar link
Feed links are private: anyone who has one can see the lessons, names and locations in it. If a link is shared by mistake, press Reset link (in Settings for your feed, on the student's page for theirs). The old link stops working immediately and calendars using it stop updating, so re-subscribe with the new one.