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Using appointment slots

The appointment slots feature lets you set one period of time on your calendar, divided into available time slots for people to reserve. For instance, professors can have their students reserve time during office hours each week, or the library could let anyone visiting their website schedule an appointment for a room during a set time period.

Note that in order to reserve one of your appointment slots, people will need to have a Google Calendar account themselves. But it's free and easy for them to create an account, so don't let that stop you from creating appointment slots!

This is a handy tool with many possibilities. Read on to learn how to set up and start using it.

Set up appointment slots

  1. Sign in to your Georgia Southern Google account and go to your calendar
  2. Make sure that you're in Week view or any Day view, since the appointment slots can't be created when you're using any of the other Calendar views.
  3. Click anywhere in the calendar grid. In the event bubble that pops up, click Appointment slots.
  4. Indicate the details for the appointment slots using these fields:
    1. What: Enter a short title for the appointment slots, like 'Professor Brown’s Office Hours.'
    2. Calendar drop-down menu: Choose the calendar in which you'd like to create the appointment slots.
    3. Offer as a single appointment: Select this button if the entire time will be used for one appointment.
    4. Split into smaller slots: Select this option if you'd like to allow multiple appointments to be scheduled during the block of time. Simply select and indicate the duration for each appointment (in minutes) in the text box to the right.
  5. If you're all finished, click Create slots on the bubble, or continue to the next step to add more details to your appointment slots.
  6. Click Edit details to open the appointment slots details page and add more information, such as a location or description, or to make the appointment block repeat. To make the appointment block recur, click the Repeat checkbox to choose your settings. Read more about repeating events.
  7. If other people should be present during the appointment slot, you can invite them using the Add Guests field. For instance, a professor may want their assistant to be there during office hours and could invite them using this feature.
    Note: Anyone that you add here will be invited to every individual appointment throughout the block of time, and will also receive an email each time someone reserves an appointment. To show the event to people who might reserve an appointment slot, give them the appointment page's URL that's listed at the top of the event details page
  8. When you're finished, click Save.
You're all set up! Your appointment block will display as a single event on your calendar and the calendars of any invitees. You'll be able to distinguish the appointment block from other events by its striped pattern. Once actual appointments are booked, they'll appear as regular events overlapping with the striped appointment block.

Booking Appointments (visitors)

To let people start booking appointments, simply direct them to the appointment page.

** You can find the URL for your appointment page at the top of the set-up page, which you can access via the Edit details link.


Visitors to this page will see a calendar showing the available appointments. They’ll also see their own calendar overlaid on the appointment page, making it easy to see what times work for them.
To book an appointment, visitors simply click one of the available appointment buttons and click Save. Visitors can also edit other fields in the popup to make changes to the title, location, and event description.
Appointments that have been booked won’t be visible to future visitors to the appointment page.
Attendees can cancel their appointment by deleting or declining the event on their own calendar, which will appear as a decline on your calendar. The appointment then becomes bookable for future visitors to the appointment page.
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-Five Ways to Set Up an Event:

We offer a time-saving feature that allows you to quickly populate time slots if you are creating a sign up with regular appointment times or shifts. Log into your account and click the Created tab at the top. Select the pencil icon to the right of the sign up you want to edit. At Step 3: Dates/Times, choose the Time.

Google Calendar makes it easy to schedule meetings, appointments, classes, or events with specific start and end times. A 'calendar entry' is considered to be anything that you would add to your calendar - be it a 2 day conference, a 1 hour meeting, or a 3 hour dinner. You can schedule all of these things on Google Calendar, and even have entries overlap with each other. There are five different ways to set up a calendar event.



1-Create Button
Click on the create button and add the event details on the calendar



2-Quick Add
To help simplify the calendar entry, 'Quick Add' lets you type in a single sentence and then interprets what you entered and adds the appropriate calendar entry. Quick add recipe for events is to enter 'what,' 'who,' 'where,' and 'when' (only 'what' and 'when' are required).




3-Calendar List
You can also create a calendar entry directly from your calendar list on the left side of your Calendar window.




4-Click and drag on the calendar

In 'Day', 'Week', and 'Month' view you can click and drag on the calendar to create events that span over a few hours or days.




5-Click on the calendar

In 'month' view, you can simply click directly on the day to enter an event. To add more details to the event, click on 'Edit Event'.



-Appointment Slots:

Google Calendar allows you to set up an event as appointment slots.


The Appointment slots feature lets you set time slots on your calendar that other people can book from their own Google Calendar


Examples of use:

  • A professor could allow his or her students to reserve time during office hours each week.

  • A classroom teacher could allow parents to book student conference times.

  • A tutor could use it to allow students to sign up for open tutoring time.

This is a handy tool with many possibilities! Read on to learn how to set up and start using it.

NOTE: Users must have a Google Calendar account to book an appointment.


Setting up an appointment slot

You can set up an Appointment Slot when you're viewing Calendar in Week view or any Day view. The Appointment Slot option won't show up if you're viewing Calendar in 2 week, 3 week, 4 week, Agenda, or Month view. Learn More about Calendar views and how to set custom view options.


To start, you’ll need to set a time slot that you’d like to make available for appointments. To do that, follow these steps:

  1. Sign into your Apps Calendar account

  2. Click anywhere in the calendar grid. In the event bubble that pops up, click Appointment slots.

  3. Indicate the details for the appointment slot using these fields:

    • What: Enter a short title for the appointment(s), like “Mrs. Smith’s Office Hours.”

    • Calendar drop-down menu: Choose the calendar you’d like to create the appointment slot on.

    • Offer as a single appointment: Select this button if the entire time slot will be for one appointment.

    • Split into smaller slots: Select this option if you’d like to allow multiple appointments to be scheduled during the slot. Simply select and indicate the duration for each appointment (in minutes) in the text box to the right.

  4. If you’re all finished, click Create slots on the bubble, or continue to the next step to add more details to your appointment slot.

  5. Click Edit details to open the appointment slot details page and add more information, such as a location or description, or to make the appointment slot repeat. To make the appointment slot recur, click the Repeat checkbox to choose your settings. Read more about repeating eventshere.

  6. If other people should be present during the appointment slot, you can invite them using the Add Guests field. For instance, a professor may want their assistant to be there during office hours and could invite them using this feature.

  7. When you’re finished, click Save.


You’re set up! Your appointment slot will display as a single event on your calendar and the calendars of any invitees. You’ll be able to distinguish the appointment slot from other events by its striped pattern. Once actual appointments are booked, they’ll appear as regular events overlapping with the striped appointment slot.

Make appointments

To let people start booking appointments, simply direct them to the appointment page. You can find the URL for it at the top of the appointment slot details page.

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Visitors to this page will see a calendar showing the available appointments. They’ll also see their own calendar overlaid on the appointment page, making it easy to see what times work for them.

To book an appointment, visitors simply click one of the available appointment buttons and click Save. Visitors can also edit other fields in the popup to make changes to the title, location, and event description.

Appointments that have been booked won’t be visible to future visitors to the appointment

page.


Attendees can cancel their appointment by deleting or declining the event o n their own calendar, which will appear as a decline on your calendar. The appointment slot then becomes available for future visitors to the appointment page.


When you are scheduling a calendar entry for multiple people, it can be useful to check the schedules of each party to make sure you choose a time that works for everybody. If you are adding guests who also have Google Apps accounts with your school, you can check their availability to find a time that works, or use a Google Calendar tool to find the next available time everyone invited is free.


You can check your guest availability when you create a new calendar entry or edit the entry afterwards.


To check guest availability when you create a new calendar entry, follow these steps:

  1. Click Edit event details if you are not already viewing that page.

  2. Click Find a time below the date and time boxes.

  3. Add the guest to you event (see Add guests to a calendar entry)

  4. Events will show up when each individual is busy. The Shaded area is the event. You can use this visual timeline to find an empty block when everyone can meet.


From your calendar window, you can view a calendar of someone who also has a Google Apps account at your school alongside your own calendar, just follow these steps:

  1. These steps assume your guest is someone with a Google Apps account at your school.

  2. If you have done so already, add the guest's calendar to your calendar list by typing in their email address in the left side column in the Other Calendars box.

  3. The added calendar will automatically be highlighted and visible in your calendar window.

  4. If you already added the guest, you can turn their calendar 'on' or 'off' by clicking on their name within the Other Calendars box.

  5. If your event requires more guests, continue to add their calendars in the Other Calendars box.

  6. With all the calendars viewable, you can now find free time on everyone's calendar.
Google-Keyboard shortcuts:http://goo.gl/C61Nv
-You can edit your event titles directly from the event bubble (without having to click on 'More details')
-Quick add recipe for events is to enter 'what,' 'who,' 'where,' and 'when' (only 'what' and 'when' are required).
-Quick Add Tips: http://goo.gl/exJ3y
-The space above the list of times (area enclosed by a blue box) is the open space reserved for 'All Day' events.
-If you want the entry to span multiple days, click the day and drag until the end day up in the blue bar area.
-All Day events will automatically be marked as 'free' in the Show me as section. This will not block out the day.
-Max # of instances allowed for a recurring event is 365. After 365 occurrences, you need to create a new recurring event.
-Copy of event will be a copy @ the moment you create the copy. Future changes 2 original event will not reflect in the copy.
-If guests have turned off notifications for new events they will not receive an email invitation even if you click Send.
-Guest lists are automatically hidden for events with more than 100 guests (regardless of organizer's selection).
-Google Calendar can import event information in iCal or CSV (MS Outlook) format.
-If you invite someone to an event on your personal calendar, they will be able to view the event details for that event, but will not be able to see the rest of the calendar if you are keeping your calendar private.
-Calendar SMS:Google Calendar is a free product and Google doesn't charge you to receive notifications. Please keep in mind that if you're in the US or Canada, your mobile service provider's standard rate for receiving text messages may apply.

-Invitations in Google Calendar let you circulate information about a particular event without requiring you to share your entire calendar with others. It also allows you to track the responses of the people you have invited.


-You can add a Google Calendar Gadget to your site (like the one displayed below).


Know Your Limits:

-Currently, you can invite up to 500 guests per event. To accommodate an event with a guest list over 500, create additional events for every 500 invited guests. If your attendee list is larger than that, you can make some of the invitees be groups. You can therefore invite up to 500 groups, allowing for a virtually unlimited number of total attendees.


-There's a limit to the number of calendars you can create at one time. If you're receiving an error message when creating additional calendars, please wait 24 hours before trying again.


-You can currently share your calendar with up to 75 users per day. If you'd like to share your calendars with more users, please wait 24 hours before trying again.


-Keyboard shortcuts:

  • t = go to today
  • d = day
  • w = week
  • m = month
  • a = agenda
  • j/k forward back

-Notifications:

Please note: when you make changes to the reminder settings for events on your calendar, the changes will only apply to you. Invited guests or those who have access to the events will receive reminders according to their own Google Calendar reminder settings.


This means your students will not automatically receive reminders even if you set the 'Homework' calendar to have a day-before email reminder. The students would need to set this reminder themselves.


Please note: Reminders for 'All Day' events are based on 5:00 pm the day before the event (according to your current time zone). So, if you choose to receive your reminder 10 minutes before your 'All Day' event on August 24th, you'll be reminded on August 23rd at 4:50 pm.


Google Calendar offers a variety of notification options for both email and SMS. You can set notifications for any of the following:

  • New Invitations
  • Changed Invitations
  • Cancelled Invitations
  • Invitation Replies
  • Event Reminders
  • Daily Agenda (email only)

-SMS:
If you'd like to stop the delivery of SMS notifications via your mobile phone for all of your calendars, simply send the text 'STOP' to the shortcodeGVENT (48368). (This feature is only available for mobile numbers issued within the United States.)
-Inviting Guests to Events who do not have a Google Account:

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If your friends are using another email application (such as Microsoft Outlook, Hotmail, Yahoo!, etc.) to read and reply to your Google Calendar invitation, make sure they use the 'Yes/No/Maybe' links in the body of the invitation itself rather than the response buttons provided by their email application.
Currently, when guests respond using the email application's reply buttons, the event is only updated if it's scheduled on your primary calendar.

This means that someone using Microsoft Outlook should not use the Outlook reply tools, but rather the 'Yes/No/Maybe' links that are included in the email notification.