Just what we needed to centralize events on our school websites

We have used the All-In-One Event Calendar (Ai1ec) on our school district’s website (https://www.msdwt.k12.in.us/events) since the 2014-15 school year. We had some fairly unique requirements that the Ai1ec has been able to address for us:

1. subscribe to calendar option with mobile devices (not just a snapshot or one-time download) – we needed any changes to be reflected within the calendar(s),
2. accept feeds from external calendars – we have buildings that utilize a third-party site to create printed handbook/events, and this has prevent us from having to maintain multiple calendars and duplicate entries,
3. accept csv files as an import (we have front office staff who prefer to update a spreadsheet for us to populate events fairly easily/quickly via import),
4. maintain a parent-children or push-pull relational model with our district and building sites (be able to create an event at the building level and mirror/sync with district site at an aggregate level),
5. filter by school(s) so parents could see events at one or more buildings (being able to subscribe to that specific filter was an added bonus as it saves them having to go to multiple building site calendars to subscribe).

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