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We recommend booking a 15-minute onboarding call with our co-founder Chloe to set up your Honeycomb calendar. If you’d rather do it on your own, you can find comprehensive self-serve instructions below.
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If you want to set up your calendar yourself, navigate to the “Setup your smart calendar“ guide box at the top of your Calendar tab in the app to get started. The app will walk you through three steps:
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1. Import your school’s calendar: this gives Honeycomb a baseline version of your school’s calendar, but it isn’t yet “smart.”
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2. Forward a recent date-packed school email to Worker Bee, Honeycomb’s AI assistant, to see the magic of AI-extracted dates and update the baseline calendar.
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3. Set up auto email forwarding so that you don’t have to remember to forward every school email to Worker Bee.
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Please share your school’s calendar with us. It might be on paper, a PDF, or a Google Cal. This serves as your baseline school calendar, which Honeycomb then keeps updated with new events and reminders that come via email from your school.
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Important: if your school’s digital calendar is noisy –– e.g., the school includes every grade’s events in the general calendar –– don’t sync it! Instead, find your school’s basic academic calendar (usually a PDF, they look like this) and upload it. Then, go find a date-packed newsletter from your principal that outlines the upcoming quarter, and forward that to Worker Bee to fill in key dates. It’s critical that your Honeycomb calendar not be noisy, otherwise it won’t do its job of helping coordinate parents.
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First, kick off the Smart Calendar set up by tapping on the “Let’s go” orange button in the Calendar tab. You might first need to select a specific classroom (see brown arrow).
Then, upload your calendar:
PDF or paper calendar: tap here if your school uses a paper or PDF calendar
Google calendar: if your school uses a Google calendar
…and you don’t already subscribe to it on your own calendar, tap here
…and you do subscribe to it on your own calendar, tap here
See the magic for yourself, and update the baseline calendar by forwarding a recent, date-packed school email or newsletter to your unique Worker Bee email. You’ll be notified once Worker Bee has extracted dates for review.
How to find your unique Worker Bee email: it’s provided in the “Worker Bee AI Review” chat, after you’ve uploaded a calendar. You can also find it by tapping on the header of your “Worker Bee AI Review” chat in the Chat tab.
Tap on the header of the “Worker Bee AI Review” chat to get to Worker Bee instructions.
If you don’t see a “Worker Bee AI Review” chat in your chat tab, you need to start the smart calendar process in the calendar tab.
If you don’t have a “Worker Bee AI Review” chat in your Honeycomb Chat tab, you need kick off the smart calendar setup. Follow the “Setup your smart calendar” instructions from the Calendar tab.