[Building Sakai] Google Calendar Integration

[Savitha Prakash]

Thanks, these are real good feedback.

- Savitha

On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 4:38 AM, Adam Marshall <adam.marshall at it.ox.ac.uk>wrote:

> We have the following about Google's delay in our FAQ:
>
> I have subscribed my Google calendar to a WebLearn calendar but some
> (WebLearn) events are out of date?
>
>     A: It appears that there are some caching issues with Google
> Calendars: we think that Google only looks for event IDs that have appeared
> or disappeared, so it only recognises new / removed events; events that
> have just been edited do not generally seem to be picked up. You can
> 'force' an update within a day if, instead of changing the date / time or
> location of an event, you actually delete it and then add it in again with
> up to date details. This means that last-minute changes will not appear in
> a Google calendar and will need to be flagged up to students in an
> alternative way - Email; WebLearn Announcements Tool or even the
> University's SMS Text Messaging service which allows you to text students
> in the same way as you would send them an email - 3p a message.
>
> We have also found a similar delay with Exchange's OWA web client.
> Apparently, in theory, it should all work OK but there are bugs which mean
> a linked calendar takes a very long time to show up in OWA and the updating
> suffers unpredictable delays . These two factors means that it isn't really
> possible to subscribe to a 'private Sakai URL' with any great confidence.
>
> adam
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:
> sakai-dev-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Keli Sato Amann
> Sent: 07 September 2012 23:06
> To: Savitha Prakash
> Cc: sakai-dev
> Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] Google Calendar Integration
>
> Hi Savitha,
> .
>
> Ideally, I actually would have liked to have adopted Oxford's fix of
> allowing users to take a URL from the synoptic Calendar and add it by URL
> within GCal. Unfortunately, if an instructor updated the Sakai Calendar, we
> have no control over how soon that change would appears in Google. Google
> acknowledges the problem here, but has no estimate on when this will get
> fixed (
> http://support.google.com/a/bin/static.py?hl=en&page=known_issues.cs).
>
> Keli Amann
> User Experience Specialist
> Academic Computing Services, Stanford University
>
>
>


-- 
*Savitha Prakash  *
Application Analyst
ITS Teaching & Learning
University of Michigan
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