How to get Veracross assignment reminders on your iPhone

Veracross offers several calendars to subscribe to. The one you want for reminders is Class Assignments, for All Classes, so you get due dates rather than your timetable. Veracross is the school information system at many independent and private schools.

Step 1: Find your Veracross calendar link

1. Open your Veracross portal in a web browser and go to Calendar.
2. Click Subscribe, then find Class Assignments.
3. Right-click (or press and hold) Subscribe next to All Classes, then choose Copy Link.

The link looks something like webcal://api.veracross.com/…. It’s private to you: anyone who has it can read your calendar, so don’t post it or share it.

Step 2: Get a reminder before every due date

1. Get Nudge from the App Store. It’s free.
2. Pick Veracross from the list of school platforms. (Later on, it’s under Settings › School calendar, or tap “Paste my calendar link” on Home.)
3. Paste the link. Your dated work appears in one list, sorted by due date, and Pip starts watching.

You choose how early Pip speaks up: 1 day and 2 hours before a deadline, or 1 day, 3 hours and 1 hour before. Deadlines due together share one nudge, and nothing arrives overnight. Nudge rechecks your link whenever you open it or pull down to refresh, and if a teacher moves a date, it tells you what changed.

What comes through from Veracross

Homework and assignments with due dates across all your classes. Calendar feeds share due dates, not grades or whether you’ve submitted, so mark work done in Nudge after you hand it in. For anything that isn’t in the feed, type it into Nudge like a text: “essay draft thursday 9am”.

Other ways to see Veracross due dates on your iPhone

The same link works in any calendar app that can subscribe to a calendar. That’s a good way to see your due dates, but it isn’t built to remind you of them:

• Apple Calendar: in the Calendar app, tap Calendars, then Add Calendar › Add Subscription Calendar, and paste the link. Subscribed calendars are read-only, so you can’t add your own alert to each assignment, and school feeds usually don’t include alerts of their own.
• Google Calendar: on a computer, click + next to Other calendars › From URL. Google checks subscribed links on its own schedule, so new or moved due dates can take many hours to appear.

Nudge reads the link for one job: deadlines. It lists them by due date, counts down to the next one, nudges you before each, flags anything that moved, and lets you mark work done.

Troubleshooting

Nudge shows my class periods, not homework.

You copied the Class Schedules link. Go back and copy the one under Class Assignments.

Clicking Subscribe opened Apple Calendar.

Right-click or press and hold the button and choose Copy Link instead of clicking it.

Only one class shows up.

Copy the link next to All Classes, not a single class.

Questions

Still stuck? Email [email protected] and say which platform you use, but please don’t send the link itself. See also: what a school calendar feed is and how to keep it private.

Veracross is a trademark of its owner. Nudge is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Veracross; it reads the standard calendar link Veracross gives you.