Accessing Other Calendars on Your Mobile Device

In our digital-age, calendars have a completely different view than they used to when we pinned our favorite yearly calendars to our wall, or placed it on our desks.  Today, having multiple calendars on one account is standard.  The advantage to having multiple calendars is having the ability to accommodate many different events, shifts, programs or even lifestyles; have the ability to isolate the view of these events; and the ability to share these with others.

There are times when you need access to a calendar that someone else created on our mobile device - smartphone or tablet.  For example, our Middle School has their own events calendar, and faculty have the ability to add the Middle School calendar to their own Google Calendar for viewing.  I have had some faculty approach me wanting to be able to access this same Middle School calendar on their iPad.

Unfortunately, there is no simple, one-step for this procedure (that I know of).  However, it is still easy to do.  Through this method you will be able to access other calendars on your mobile device's calendar.

To begin, you will have already needed to add a calendar created by someone else to your own Google Calendar by a link shared to you by the creator of that calendar.  Then, you will have to add your Google account to your mobile device's settings (i.e. on an iPad: Settings; Mail, Contacts and Calendars).

Then go to Google's Calendar Sync Settings on any web browser.  Here you can select (or deselect) the calendars you wish to have available on your mobile device. When you view your mobile's calendar, the newly added calendars from others, should be accessible.