Testing your Sync: Pilot Mode

Once you have configured your connections, filters, and event template in SchoolCal, you are ready to test your sync. This is done using pilot mode. Pilot mode makes it easy to try out SchoolCal by allowing you to define a small number of pilot users from your school to test with. While in pilot mode, SchoolCal will only create calendar events for classes those users belong to and only pilot users will be added as attendees for any event.

Enabling Pilot Mode

Pilot mode can be enabled and disabled using the toggle on the Pilot mode tile on the flow's settings page. Note that when you add a flow it is automatically set to Pilot mode.

To add users, click the "Pilot Users" link and just begin typing their email address and select the desired user. Once users are added, return to the SchoolCal home page and press "Light Sync" to initiate the pilot sync. You may update filters, change the event template, or add users to pilot mode and press "Light Sync" again at any time. You will only be removed from pilot mode when you toggle pilot mode off and re-sync.

Disabling Pilot Mode

To disable Pilot Mode and send SchoolCal to all of your users (as defined in your filters tab) simply slide the Pilot Mode slider to off. You may also enable automatic syncing. This will do a full sync (fetch new data and push to calendars) at the time you designate on the settings page for your SchoolCal.