March Roundup: School efficiency, embedded calendars, & resource scheduling

In our March roundup, we’re sharing

• the story of how a crisis became an opportunity for improved efficiency, making scheduling easier for thousands of students, teachers, and parents.
• the growing gallery of embedded calendars (and snag some ideas for embedding Teamup on your own website).
• how Teamup compares with Excel and Airtable.

What’s inside

• Story: From crisis to daily efficiency at schools
• Visibility made easy with embedded calendars
• Product: Compare Teamup to Excel, Airtable
• Do more with Teamup: March’s power tips
• Feedback favorites from March
• Free calendar printables for April

1. Story: From crisis to daily efficiency at schools

When COVID-19 hit, schools across Canton de Vaud, Switzerland’s third-largest canton, faced a major challenge. Like other schools across the world, they had to quickly shift thousands of students and teachers to a remote learning system. While the crisis has subsided and schools are back to normal, Teamup remains and has become part of the everyday school life in Canton of Vaud. What started as a basic scheduling and assignment-sharing system has remained, expanded, and better integrated. Learn how they use Teamup to bring daily efficiency with streamlined, user-friendly school calendars.

Just a Calendar: From Crisis to Daily Efficiency at Schools

2. Visibility made easy with embedded calendars

Embedding a color-coded and well-organized calendar into websites is a common need for many organizations. It helps boost the visibility of events, resource availability, program schedules and attract more participation. Teamup’s versatile calendar views offer all the options and flexibility you need for the perfect display. Choose from 12 calendar views for the perfect event layout, adjust the configuration with our Embed Wizard, and work with link parameters for even more control. Get more ideas from our growing collection of embedded calendars we have found on the web.

Embedded Calendars Powered by Teamup

3. Product comparison: Teamup vs Excel or Airtable

Managing a resource schedule shared across dozens of events, while keeping a busy team updated in real-time, is a big challenge. Add in another factor: The events are happening across multiple locations, or rely on multiple shared resources. It’s a challenge across different industries and scenarios, but it’s surprisingly difficult to get the best layout for this type of scheduling scenario. Check out this clear comparison of Excel and Airtable with Teamup’s clear, structured visualization with flexible configuration and real-time updates.

Resource Scheduling: Teamup versus Excel or Airtable

4. Do more with Teamup: March’s power tips

Check out the Teamup Ticker for tips and updates added daily. 

Drag and drop events to change duration or date

In a view with a time grid,  click and drag an event to a different date/time. Or drag the edge of an event to adjust the duration.

Adjust event sort order in Tiles view

 Tiles view (browser only) provides a beautiful visual event display. The calendar admin can set the events to sort in to ascending (calendar style) or descending (blog style) order.

Upload audio files on iOS/iPhone to the Teamup app

If you’re using the Teamup app on iOS, and want to upload an audio file, you need to make sure the audio file is saved to Files. Then you can access and upload it to a Teamup event.

Update Teamup for a company-wide email change or rebranding

If your organization is rebranding or making a name change that requires switching to a different email domain, here are some steps to take to update Teamup accordingly.

Use calendar titles to share more information with no-details users

When sharing access with no-details, users will see events as Reserved with details hidden. You can use additional sub-calendars to provide info like event status without changing the access level.

5. Feedback favorites from March

We love hearing from our customers. Want to share your Teamup experience? Get in touch.