PLI offers multiple Office Hours and Professional Development events that can support your teaching in various areas. They can all be found in Innovation Insider along with dates, times, and Zoom links. However, if you want that information to be readily available and automatically synced to your time zone, you can add them to your Google Calendar. This does not automatically mark you as attending each meeting. All it does is add the shared calendar to yours, which you can toggle on and off to view as you please.
Below, you can find the steps for adding both shared calendars to your own. You can also follow this iorad or this one for the same information. Note: Iorads are interactive step-by-step tutorials. The tasks performed in an iorad do not reflect changes in the actual website, but you can follow along in a separate tab to actually make the changes.
Adding PLI's Office Hours to your Calendar
1. Go to PLI's Innovation Insider.
2. Click Office Hours in the top right menu.
3. Click the orange +Google Calendar link in the description.
4. Clicking that link will open your Google Calendar in a new tab, asking if you want to add the Office Hours calendar. Click Add to do so.
5. You will now have the ability to see all events posted to the shared Office Hours calendar. If you don't want to see them, just toggle off the checkbox under Other Calendars in the lefthand menu. This will hide them from view, but you can always turn it back on.
6. You can now reference office hours using your Google Calendar! To check out a specific office hour, click the event in your calendar (1). To actually join it, click Join Meeting (2). You can also see more information and resources about it in the description part of the event (3).
Adding PLI's PD/Connected Community Events to your Calendar
1. Go to PLI's Innovation Insider.
2. Click Professional Development in the top right menu.
3. Click the orange +Google Calendar link in the description.
4. Clicking that link will open your Google Calendar in a new tab, asking if you want to add the PD & Connected Community Events calendar. Click Add to do so.
5. You will now have the ability to see all events posted to this shared calendar. If you don't want to see them, just toggle off the checkbox under Other Calendars in the lefthand menu. This will hide them from view, but you can always turn it back on.
6. You can now find these events using your Google Calendar! To check out a specific PD or Connected Community event, click the event in your calendar. Depending on the type of event, there will be different actions you can take to check it out and participate.
- If you see "To enroll in this session click here," click the link to check it out. It won't automatically enroll you; Instead, it will bring you to the event's ProxU page, where you can see what the event is about, and enroll to participate in it if you like what you see. There are also directions for how to join the meeting once you've been enrolled.
- If you want to join a Connected Community Committee, click the link to the form to show your interest. There's also a link to the Connected Community page where you can check out agendas to see what the different committees are all about.
- If you want to join a Peer Learning Committee, then email the organizer that's listed on the calendar event. PLCs are open every semester, but feel free to reach out whenever to show your interest.