Text+Your+Class+from+Google+Calendar

Tutorial to show you how you can text homework reminders from your Google Calendar:

First you'll need accounts on a couple web sites. Including: Google Twitter IFTTT Cel.ly

If you already have an account on one of these sites you don't need to make a new one though I would recommend creating a new twitter account that you use only for this purpose to prevent possible accidental texts about what you might be tweeting about.

Once you have accounts on all four of these sites you can get started.

Step 1 - Link your google calendar to your twitter account with IFTTT. 1) Go to [] and sign in. 2) Activate the Google Calendar channel by doing the following: Click on the get more channels button here -^

Then click on the Google Calendar Channel.

Click Activate. On the next page log in to your google account if necessary and hit grant access. This will allow ifttt to use your google calendar for future tasks.

3) Activate the Twitter Channel by repeating the Above steps for the Twitter channel 4) Get the Task Recipe here. 5) Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the button. Your Google Calendar is now linked to your Twitter account. This will tweet any event title that includes the word "due" in it within 15 minutes of the time it is scheduled for.

Step 2 - Link Cel.ly to Twitter 1) Create a new Cell on Celly (a cell is a group of people who will all recieve a text, think of this as one class period) 2) Add a Receptor
 * Log in to cel.ly
 * Click the Cells button in the upper right hand toolbar [[image:Celly_tool_bar.JPG]]
 * Click the Start a Cell button near the bottom left side of the page [[image:Start_a_cell.JPG]]
 * Follow the instructions to create a cell with the settings you prefer.
 * I would suggest keeping it set to alert only and hit keep private in step 4 but that is up to you and your school policies.
 * After clicking finish on the last step of creating the cell scroll to the bottom of the page on the right side and click add incoming[[image:Receptors.JPG]]
 * Then click From Twitter[[image:From_Twitter.JPG]]
 * Then enter your twitter account info [[image:Twitter_Receptor.JPG]]
 * If you are going to have multiple classes that get different messages add a word to the search filter field. This will make it so it only sends texts to this cell that contain a certain keyword such as the name of the class. This allows you to automatically send texts to each class from the same google calendar by including the name of the class in the event title.

You're done! Now anytime you want to send a class text all you have to do is create an event on your google calendar for the time you want the text to go out and name it what you want the text to say. For example if "vocab homework" is due on the 6th for your Spanish 1 class put an event at 7pm on the 5th titled "Spanish 1 vocab homework due for class tomorrow" This lets ifttt know you want to send this event by twitter by including the keyword "due" and then tells Celly to only send it to spanish 1 by including the keyword "Spanish 1."

Enjoy getting more homework from your students! If you have questions feel free to contact me by clicking my name and hitting send message > user:darcoza