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How do I control who has access to Calendars, for Students, Staff and Parents?

← Student and Parent Portal
Sentral has its own calendar system, which shares information across modules, and can be viewed by Students and Parents in the portal.

Allowing a calendar to be viewed in the portal is a two step process.

Step 1 - Sentral Calendars
There are permission settings per Calendar which can be found by accessing the Calendar and clicking on Preferences (top right) - you will have the following for Edit and View Privileges: 
  • Private: Only users set in the access controls of this calendar; 
  • Shared: Only Sentral Logged in Users (Staff); 
  • Open: Anyone who has the URL for the Calendar (both Staff, Parents and Students)
There are display options for the Teacher Dashboard and the Student Dashboard. The Staff Dashboard option is the Calendar displayed if using the Calendar Dashboard Widget for display. The Student Dashboard feature is not related to the Portal, so can be disregarded. So long as Staff Calendars are set to only allow access for either Private or Shared access pertaining to BOTH Edit and View, then only Staff will be able to modify/view entries on that calendar.

Step 2 - Student and Parent Portal
For Parents and/or Student users to access a calendar, the following needs to be setup: 
You need to ensure that the Calendar has View Privileges set to Open: Anyone 
  • To set,open up Calendar 
  • Click on Preferences 
  • View Privileges: select 'Open: Anyone'
  • Save
b) Copy the URL of the Calendar to your clipboard - sample: Global Calendar: http://YOUR SCHOOL'S SENTRAL URL /webcal/calendar/2

c) Create the Calendar as a School Application within Portal Settings
To set, go to
  • Portal Console Setup > School Applications >  Add Application
  • Name, Category and Description as applicable
  • Copy Calendar URL above into the URL field
  • Select options to where to display
  • Save. 

Go to Portal Console . Portal Console Setup > Setting > Portal Calendar
Select the portal calendar that will be displayed to portal users. 

Once you have done above, the calendar will be accessible via drop-down on the applicable Student and/or Parent Dashboards applied. 
 

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