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Difference | Resource Calendar | Shared Calendar |
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Who creates the calendar | OIT | Everyone can create Shared calendars |
Who manages the calendar | Calendar owners | Calendar owners |
Who can see the calendar | By default, anyone at PSU, but calendar owners can customize the calendar's viewers | Calendar owners determine set and customize the calendar's viewers |
Who can create or change calendar events | By default, anyone at PSU, but calendar owners can customize the calendar's permissions | Calendar owners determine set and customize the calendar's editors |
Where is the calendar visible | Can be found through the “find a room/location” dialog when creating a meeting in Google Calendar | Visible to those they're shared with, in Google Calendar's calendar list |
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Shared Calendar
On the other hand, if you want to create need a calendar that’s not tied to a physical location, like an attendance calendar for your department or a calendar to schedule events for your team, you can create a Shared CalendarShared calendar suits your needs better, it's easy to create one.
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You can configure any calendar with varying levels of access, including who can view the calendar and who can schedule events on it. You must have the permission level of “Make changes and manage sharing sharing” in the calendar’s sharing settings to manage access to your calendar. For more information about sharing settingsyour calendar with others, reference Google’s Share Your Calendar with Someone support article.