Illinois Compass 2g, Sync Compass calendar to Google, Outlook, or iPhone

Instructions for syncing your Illinois Compass 2g calendar to your phone

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Illinois Compass 2g calendar events can be pushed out to third party calendars (examples: Outlook and Google) through an iCalendar feed. Once the iCalendar feed is set up on a third party calendar, updates to events are automatically reflected on the third party calendar.

Blackboard Learn’s iCalendar feed’s refresh time is 4 hours, but the actual refresh rate will depend on the third party calendar being used. (Google, for example, checks more often than Outlook.)

1.  Click the Calendar link under the Tools module on your My Illinois 2g page.

2.  Below your list of calendar events click ICALENDAR Get External Calendar Link

3.  Copy the URL with the .ics extension to use for the following instructions, provided by Blackboard.

 Google Calendar

  1. Click the down-arrow next to Other calendars
  2. Select Add by URL from the menu
  3. Enter the Blackboard Learn iCalendar URL in the field provided
  4. Click the Add Calendar button. The calendar will appear in the Other Calendars section of the calendar list to the left.

Microsoft Outlook

  1. Log on to https://outlook.office365.com/ 
  2. Clicking on calendar, then Add Calendar, and Subscribe from Web. Here you will paste the URL you copied from Compass.

iPhone

Option 1

  1. Select “Settings
  2. Select “Mail, Contacts, Calendars
  3. Select “Add Account…” under “Accounts
  4. Select “Other” at the bottom
  5. Select “Add Subscribed Calendar
  6. Type the iCalendar URL. Select “Next”.

Option 2

  1. Mail the iCalendar URL ending in .ics to the email account set up on your iPhone.
  2. Open the email on your phone and click the URL.
  3. iPhone recognizes the .ics extension as a calendar and prompts you to subscribe. Choose yes.
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Keywords:calendar, phone, compass, sync   Doc ID:66437
Owner:Compass C.Group:University of Illinois Technology Services
Created:2016-08-25 10:52 CDTUpdated:2022-06-20 15:19 CDT
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