Google calendar event notifications on a chromebook

[ddelboccio]

Hello.

We are wanting to have calendar events for students throw up a pop up reminder message about upcoming events.

Under the Google calendar notification settings there are two types.  Alerts, or desktop notifications.

Alerts are quite useless as they rely on you actually having the Google calendar product open within your browser.

Desktop notifications seem to only apply to Windows or Mac devices, as they will typically throw up a message from the system tray regardless of what you are doing on the device.

I cannot seem to get "desktop notifications" to work on a chromebook.

Is that truly a windows or mac only feature?

[ddelboccio]

Follow-up....

I can only get calendar "desktop notifications" or  pop-up "alerts" to occur on a chromebook if I have Google calendar open in a separate tab.

If there is no calendar tab open, nothing happens.

As soon as I open a new tab and go to calendar, alerts or desktop notifications happen.

Ideally, I would like any alert or notification to occur regardless of whether Google calendar is open on another tab.

[SteveHarmon]

I believe it is only a feature on Windows or Mac. A Chromebook, since it does not have apps installed, will probably only work if the webpage is open. You might be able to download the Google Calendar application (for Android if you have that turned on for your Chromebooks) and that might give you notifications... I haven't tested this, I'm just going off of a guess.

[Dean_Mantz]

We had a few teachers participate in a beta test for Google last fall. The test provided pop-up windows displaying Google Calendar and Classroom announcements in addition to the current settings window. Here is a quick glimpse of the feature https://youtu.be/hYEXwEMscaU?si=AISbTf5A79lysvK7&t=1490.

[ddelboccio]

Are these features still in BETA?  Do we have a general release date?

[JantechNJ]

There is an extension called "Checker Plus for Google Calendar" that will display calendar events without the browser or Calendar app being open on a Chromebook. I use it personally but not for school. It needs to be allowed - uses OAUTH and doesn't seem to collect personal info unless using the paid version.