Schedule Recurring Meetings in Google Calendar

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	Using a Google Calendar Add-On to schedule recurring meetings with the 8-day rotation
	Intended for Employees and Students
	Categorized under RCS software and services
	Maintained by Jonathan King
	Up-to-date for the 2022-2023 school year.

We introduced an 8-day rotation on the Hill campus in the 2022-2023 school year. As a result, it is much harder to schedule recurring meetings as you can no longer use a day-of-the-week recurrence, and need to be on the 8-day rotation. We worked with a developer to create a Google Calendar Add-On that makes this process much smoother and it is pre-loaded in all Riverdale user's Google Calendar. Here's how to use it.

1. Start in Google Calendar on the web in your preferred web browser.
   • This will NOT work from mobile.
2. Create the first event you wish to recur (aka repeat).
   • Note it must be within the school year for this to work!
3. Open the "Custom Recurrence" Add-On from the bar at the right
   • You may have to expand the Add-On bar first.
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   • It will show you the summary view of our school year, including days that will be skipped in the recurrence due to holidays, etc.
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4. Select the event you just created
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5. Enter the End Date for the recurrence
6. Select the type of recurrence you want
   1. SELECT SPECIFIC DATES: You don't want to repeat every "Day x" in the cycle, but want to pick specific ones.
   2. CREATE FOR EVERY OTHER DATE: You just want to meet every other "Day x", i.e. every other Day 4.
   3. CREATE SERIES: Create for every "Day x" within the dates you selected.