![]() ![]() Service name: The service should have a descriptive title like “In-person office hours,” of course. You get a more elaborate set of options here. Adding more services and editing servicesĪccessing the full service options interfaceĪfter you’ve gone through the initial setup, you can edit your service further by going to Settings > Services. ![]() When you add your first service, Bookings does not actually give you all the options you truly have-they’re trying to make it seem simple in this initial walkthrough, I guess, but I just find this irritating. Just x out of it-it’s annoyingly restrictive and you’ll just have to change it later anyway. Initial service setup walkthrough This is what the walkthrough looks like. For me, I like to do 1) virtual office hours, 2) in-person office hours, and 3) special appointments. You can set up different types of appointments, or services, that you’d like your students to be able to schedule. Obviously we don’t want that for our office hours, but we can’t delete it, so we’ll have to edit it for our initial office hour option. ![]() When I select “Education” as my “business type,” Bookings suggests for me a service that is a one-hour “initial consult” bookable on weekends from 9–5. To be totally honest, I need to write this down for me, because I’m afraid I’ll forget how I got it working and never be able to recreate it again, but I can pretend I’m writing it down to be helpful, too! Appointment Types (“Services”)īookings uses relentlessly entrepreneurial language, so get used to it! But, ever the tech warrior, I pushed through and eventually got everything set up to work. Like many Microsoft products, Bookings is complicated and has way too many features for a humble professor like me who just wants students to be able to schedule appointments. We’re a Microsoft university, for better or worse, so I was advised to switch to the Microsoft scheduling software Bookings. Sadly my university told me I couldn’t use this software as it doesn’t meet accessibility standards (which, come on, Calendly, it cannot be that hard to fix this, and yet…?!) From my end, I vastly preferred Calendly to any other software options, but I can’t be using inaccessible software in good conscience. That post described setting this up with a service called Calendly. It’s great because you can 1) integrate with your calendar, so your new appointments just show up and students can’t schedule when you’re busy 2) set your availability, and 3) send automatic reminders to your students so they’re less likely to forget about their appointments. I’ve written in the past about the glories of using scheduling software to set up appointments with students. ![]()
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