The Toddle calendar web offers an organized experience for students, making it easy to manage assignments, deadlines, and school events. This article provides an overview of using the Toddle calendar for your daily academic tasks.
Navigating to Calendar
Via the calendar icon
From your homepage, click on the calendar icon at the top right. A pop up window will appear on the right displaying your daily calendar tasks and activities. To expand the calendar view, click on the full-screen icon, as highlighted below.
Via the homepage module
Click on the calendar card on your home page.
Here, you can view all school events and tasks specific to your classes, neatly organized by week or month. Class tasks are displayed in specific time slots, while school-wide events appear at the top and are not tied to any particular time slot.
The left panel displays tags for assignments, as well as school-wide and class-wide events, which you can toggle on or off based on what you wish to view. Please note that you will not be able to create, modify, or delete these tags as a student. The ‘Class’ filter at the top lets you view assignments tagged to specific classes. You will only see the classes you are enrolled in, and you can select the specific ones whose tasks you wish to see.
Project tags for IBMYP, IBDP, and IBCP
In addition to the general tags available in the calendar, certain tags are exclusive to the Middle Years Programme (MYP), Diploma Programme (DP), and Career-related Programme (CP).
For MYP, tags for Personal and Community projects help you manage and monitor your respective deadlines.
For DP and CP, the tags cover Internal and External Assessments, Extended Essay, TOK Essay & Exhibition, Collaborative Science project, and Reflective project, ensuring that all significant deadlines are easily trackable.
By selecting a specific task/event, you can access detailed information about it. For example, in the image below, a quick task is selected, displaying the task’s due date, the teacher who assigned it, and the list of students it is assigned to. Additionally, there is an option to view the task in more detail by clicking on the ‘View’ button.
Viewing options
Weekly/Monthly switcher: Click on the date range or arrow keys at the top to select a weekly/monthly timeframe. You will see the weekly/monthly timeframe depending on the current view of your calendar. Use the ‘Today’ button to return to the current date.
Weekly view: Provides a detailed breakdown of the schedule for each day of the week, displaying specific tasks, events, and class activities. This view is ideal for organizing daily activities and keeping track of specific time slots.
Monthly view: Provides a broader overview of the entire month, highlighting key dates, holidays, and events without specific time slots. This view is useful for long-term planning and identifying major events or deadlines at a glance.
Subscribe Toddle calendar with external calendar apps
Toddle calendar can be synced up with external calendars like Microsoft Outlook, Google Calendar, or any other calendar app. To do so, click the ‘Subscribe’ button at the top right of the calendar page, as highlighted below.
Using the ‘Subscribe’ option, you can export the class stream assignments and school-wide events on Toddle calendar to an external calendar of your choice. Simply select the type of events you want to export and then link them to your preferred external calendar app. There are two ways to subscribe the Toddle calendar:
Auto-subscribe:
If you want to auto-subscribe Toddle Calendar from Microsoft or Google Calendar, log in to your Microsoft/Google account on the same browser. Then, choose the preferred calendar as highlighted in the screenshot below. Next, click the ‘Subscribe’ button against the preferred events set.
Manual subscribe:
In case you want to subscribe manually, use the ‘Others’ option highlighted below. Next, copy the link against the preferred event set that you wish to sync, and paste it into the calendar subscription section of your chosen external calendar.
Once synced, events from Toddle will automatically appear in the selected external calendar, updating approximately every 24 hours. Note that this synchronization only works one way; events from other calendars do not sync back to the Toddle calendar. Furthermore, only events within the current academic year will be synchronized.
You can choose what you want to sync with the external calendar. There are various export options available:
All events in one calendar: Syncs all event types—assignments, holidays, school events—into a single calendar in the chosen external app. This provides a comprehensive view of all Toddle-related activities in one place.
Class assignments: Syncs only the class assignments to a dedicated calendar. This is ideal for focusing specifically on assignment deadlines and related tasks.
School events and holidays: Syncs only the school-wide events to a separate calendar. This is ideal for keeping track of important dates like holidays, school trips, or other significant school events.
MYP, DP and CP projects deadlines: If you are a student of IB MYP, DP or CP curriculum, you can also sync specific tasks related to projects such as PP/CP, DP EE and TOK, and CP reflective project.
By selecting the appropriate export option and clicking ‘Subscribe/Copy’ link, you can customize how Toddle calendar events are integrated into your external calendars, ensuring that you have access to the specific information you need.
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