Last updated Aug 31, 2024
It’s back to school season, and this month our roundup includes helpful tips for parents and students to get back into the school-year routines. Take a look at our featured user story and find out how this team set up consolidated scheduling with Teamup. Learn how event comments help with real-time updates from the field. And don’t forget to check out power tips and get your free blank calendar printables for August!
Table of contents
- 1. Use case highlight: Back to school tips
- 2. Feature highlight: Smart ways to use the Daily Agenda
- 3. User story: Oral health consultant shares experience on scheduling for quality assurance
- 4. Featured template: University athletics scheduling
- 5. August’s power tips from the Teamup Ticker
- 6. Product updates and improvements
- 7. Insight: Use comments for real-time fieldwork updates
- 8. User feedback favorites from August
- 9. August free printables and blank calendars
1. Use case highlight: Back to school tips
It’s back-to-school season! Returning to an academic calendar means keeping track of school events, class schedules, assignments, homework, and extracurricular activities. It’s a lot to manage, for both students and parents. These back to school tips can help you keep the essentials organized and enjoy calmer days even in the busy back-to-school season.
Read more: Tips for back to school success
2. Feature highlight: Smart ways to use the Daily Agenda
We spend a lot of time chasing information down, so we can make decisions, collaborate, and do our work. How much better would it be to have the information come to you, or to the people who need it? That might mean getting a daily task list for better focus, keeping team members updated automatically, or sending an upcoming events list to interested people. Here’s a look at smart ways you can use a Teamup calendar’s daily agenda to make life and work easier.
Read more: Smart ways to use the daily agenda for upcoming events
3. User story: Consolidated scheduling for quality assurance
We recently spoke with a team of oral health consultants providing quality assurance and oversight for a school-based oral health program across the U.S. state of Illinois. The program involves many different dental providers who take mobile equipment into schools to provide dental services for the students. Before Teamup, these busy consultants had to chase down information from 50+ separate Google calendars to schedule on-site audits. What a mess!
Now, with Teamup, they have a consolidated view of all the provider calendars in one place, so they can reliably check schedules and do their work efficiently.
Read more: Scheduling quality assurance with Teamup
4. Featured template: University athletics scheduling
For university athletics scheduling, coordination is the key. There are multiple schedules coming together, from different departments, coaches, and teams. To coordinate shared facilities and resources, you need an clear overview of all the factors in one place. Make things easier with Teamup; it’s easy to get started with our athletics scheduling template.
5. August’s power tips from the Teamup Ticker
Drag-and-drop to quickly copy or duplicate an event
You can copy or duplicate an event, or combine these functions, using drag-and-drop in any calendar view with a time grid.
Locked events: Why some events have a padlock icon
If an event on your Teamup has a padlock icon, that means you are only able to view the event. You cannot modify it or remove it from the calendar. Learn why the event might be locked for you.
Did you know? Event comments will trigger a notification.
If you set up change notifications for All changes, then event comments and event signups will trigger a notification.
See multiple Google calendars in one place with Teamup
You can set up a feed of multiple Google calendars to one Teamup calendar. Then you’ll have an overview of all the events on the separate calendars in one place.
Customize (or hide) the title of an embedded Teamup calendar
You can customize the look of an embedded Teamup calendar with the Embed Wizard. For example, hide the title or show a customized title.
6. Product updates and improvements
🖥️ Recent improvements and bug fixes
Among other things, a nice usability improvement: The Settings > Sharing view now displays much nicer on small screens, which will be helpful for admins who need to manage access on a mobile browser.
📱Teamup App: Android version 1.19.02 released
Some very nice updates: The dashboard now highlights and auto-scrolls to the currently selected calendar, the app settings menu includes new options, and un the event editor/viewer, you can now directly copy the event URL or open the event page.
7. Insight: Use comments for real-time fieldwork updates
In companies that provide field services, documentation includes key information about each job, plus ongoing updates about the work being done. Getting the right system in place to provide both data security and real-time updates can really improve operational efficiency for construction projects, installers, and technical service providers. Read on to learn how to use Teamup’s event comments for documenting fieldwork.
8. User feedback favorites from August
9. August free printables and blank calendars
It’s all about routines during the school year. Homework routines, after-school routines, morning routines, and school night routines. Routines help things run smoother, because everyone knows what to expect.
To sketch out the basic structure for routines, print a granular timeline for the hours you need. List all the things that need to fit into the routine and simplify or adjust to make things easier.
Once you have routines solidified, add them to the family calendar or hang up a handy printout of each one in a visible place. It helps to have reminders and a structure to follow as you re-establish the school year rhythms.
Printable blank calendars for next month and quarter
To print: Ctrl-P on Windows or Cmd-P on Mac.
- Current quarter: September – November 2024
- Upcoming month: September 2024 (classic) or September 2024 (planner)
- Visit the collection of free printable calendar templates for 2024
See all August tickers. New tickers are added daily, so don’t forget to check them out on the calendar or collected on our News page.
