iCal (Calendar) for Mac

Owned by Daniel Rehner
Jun 13, 2014
1 min read

Subscribe to your GradesFirst Calendar

Step 1: Get Your GradesFirst calendar feed URL

  1. In GradesFirst, navigate to the Calendar tab.
  2. Click the Subscriptions tab.
  3. Click on Setup Calendar Integration.
  4. On the External Calendaring Setup tab, you will see a URL displayed, beginning with "webdav://".
    Select the text of this URL and copy it to your clipboard (Control + C). 

Step 2: Subscribe to your GradesFirst calendar

  1. In iCal (Calendar) for Mac, click the File menu and select New Calendar Subscription.
  2. Paste in your GradesFirst calendar URL.

  3. Click Subscribe.

Publish your calendar events to GradesFirst

Step 1: Get your GradesFirst publishing URL

  1. In GradesFirst, navigate to the Calendar tab.
  2. Click the Subscriptions tab.
  3. Click on Setup Free/Busy Integration.
  4. Click the Mac Outlook Integration tab.
  5. You will see a URL displayed, beginning with "https://". Select the text of this URL and copy it to your clipboard (Control + C).

Step 2: Publish your calendar to GradesFirst

  1. In iCal or Calendar for Mac, click the Calendars button in the top left corner of the application.

  2. Right-click on the calendar you wish to integrate with GradesFirst, and select Publish.

  3. In the Publish calendar dialog, if you see a Publish on field, select A private server.
    Then, paste your GradesFirst publishing URL into the Base URL field.

  4. For the Login and Password fields, add a single space into each. iCal requires that the field to contain information, but not any actual login credentials.
  5. Check the Publish changes automatically checkbox.
  6. Click Publish.

Add a few test appointments to your Outlook calendar. your appointments should appear on your GradesFirst calendar as Busy blocks.