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On Campus Shortcuts Setup

Calendar Setup for Google Shortcuts

There are some shortcuts to run Google calendar and email on your university desktop. But the calendar application is not pre-setup, so this will require a little work to get it to function properly. This mus be installed under your university ID from the chrome webstore.  We certainly understand that some of you will need help with this. We are happy to help but for this step we will need you sitting in your office to help with this.

  1. Go to enablecalendar

(Your Browser may tell you that this is harmful. For IE 11 click actions> click more options at the bottom> click run anyway.  In IE 9 you may need to click Run twice)

(On any google / non uncc login page you see use your username@uncc.edu for the user ID, on the uncc login pages use just your username)

  1. Login to the Browser that pops up (please tell the browser not to remember your password) If this is the first time you have logged into your UNCC google account it will ask you to Accept the Agreement that it displays. Please read the agreement and click accept. At this point it may ask you to login again. (Please go ahead and login again) and one final popup google may notify you about the mobile apps available(Please click “Got It” to make that pop up go away).

 

  1. Go back to the Enable Calendar application(you should see it in your taskbar) after you have completed the login steps above. Look for the following: or
  2. Click the button on the Enable Calendar application (this will open another browser page
  3. In the new browser page Click  “ADD TO CHROME” (upper right hand corner)

If you do not see “ADD TO CHROME” then you already have the calendar enabled.

 

To use the Calendar application on univeristy desktops use Start > All Programs > Google Chrome > Google Calendar

 

Below is instructions but they are optional. Use only if you so desire:

Using the start menu shortcut above :  You can right click on the Google Calendar shortcut at this point and Pin to Start, Pin to Taskbar, and or Send to.. Desktop.