FAQ - Adding a Google Calendar to Your Calendars

FAQ - Adding a Google Calendar to Your Calendars

How to add a Google Calendar as an Incoming iCal/External Calendars

You can feed external calendars directly into the calendars on your Membership Toolkit account. This is extremely helpful for schools who wish to include district calendar events on their school calendar without typing the district events in separately or for sharing calendars between schools.

To add an external calendar to your site:
  • Obtain the URL for the external calendar. This can be done by right clicking on the "subscribe" button for the external calendar and choosing "copy link address."  (The URL should begin with either http://, https://, or webcal://.)
Please note:  this is not the URL of the calendar page from the browser's header. It is the ICS or iCal subscription feed URL.
From the Google Calendar go to Settings > Click on Name of Calendar > Integrate Calendar > Copy the public address in iCal format feed URL.


  • On your Membership Toolkit Dashboard, go to the Calendars tab.
  • Follow the steps to Create a New Calendar.
  • For Step #4 - Calendar Type, choose "External via iCal Feed."
  • iCal Feed URL - Paste the copied URL link from the external calendar. 
  • Refresh Interval - Choose how often you'd like the calendar updated on your site.




Once your calendar has been created, you will also either want to display it on a Website Content Page, in the Left/Right Rail of your Website, or in a Newsletter. For step by step instructions, see our article on Displaying Calendars.

This is the “Public URL to this Calendar” URL link. The items that have been highlighted need to be replaced.
  1. Replace “embed?src=“ with “ical/“.
  2. In the public URL, everything after google.com replace with “/public/basic.ics”
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