Using Appointment Slots In Google Calendar

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Using Appointment Slots In Google Calendar
  1. TO USE APPOINTMENT SLOTS FOLLOW THESE SIMPLE STEPS: 1. Make sure you are looking at the week or day view in your Google calendar. Click on the time slot in the day that you want to create the appointment slot (note: don’t click the red create button) 3. On the pop-up window, click appointment slots. Click on edit details.
  2. The calendar feed will contain events and assignments from all of your Canvas calendars, including reserved Scheduler appointment slots. Once you have subscribed to the calendar feed, you can remove the calendar feed at any time from Outlook.com by clicking the more options icon and selecting the remove option from the menu.

Using Google Appointment Slots to manage availability. By default, Calendly finds any available time in my calendar and makes it available for people to book in. I don't want it to do that, as I don't fill every minute of every day with tasks (I need to be flexible).

1. Log into my.ryerson (your Ryerson Portal) and go to the Apps tab.

Note: Appointment slots do not work on your private Google Calendar, they only work on the Ryerson G Suite version.

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2. Click on Calendar from the G Suite menu.

3. Navigate to the week when you want to start your office hour.

Using Appointment Slots In Google Calendar

4. Click and drag to create a regular appointment spanning the total length of that particular office hour session. An input box appears as shown in the Figure 1. Note that in this example we’re setting up a block of office hours lasting three hours.

5. Click on “Appointment slots” in the input box and you will see a screen shown in Figure 3.

Google Calendar Time Slots

Note: If this is your first time accessing the appointment slots, you will first get a screen explaining what are appointment slots.

6. Click on 'Get started with appointment slots' to go to 'Appointment slots'.

7. Add a title, e.g. “Office Hours” as shown in Figure 3.

8. Click on “More Options”. You will get an edit page for the appointment slots.

9. Click 'Does not repeat' to reveal a drop down menu with options to set the recurrence of the block. Click 'Custom' to set up a custom recurrence of the appointment block. In this case we have set it to repeat every Tuesday and Thursday until August 1st.

10. Clicking Done will take you to the 'Edit details' screen.

Using Appointment Slots In Google Calendar

11. Add your office room number in the “Location” field.

Note: Please take a note of the 'This calendar's appointment page' text on the screen. You will need this later. Click on the link to open the “Calendar’s appointment page”.

12. Save your changes. You will then be returned to your calendar. You will see block appointments set up over the range you specified, repeated as you specified.

13. Use the “Calendar’s appointment page” link, mentioned in Step 11 above, to embed into your web page or an email so your students can see and visit your calendar.

14. When a student accesses the shared link, they will see something. Twelve different slots are represented here.

15. A student would select one and fill in their personal details. They will see 'Book an appointment' screen.

Google Calendar Appointment Link

16. After saving the appointment details, the student will see a confirmation screen.

Calendar With Appointment Slots

17. When a student books an appointment slot, you will receive an email message showing you the request and giving you the choice to accept or decline the appointment. If you accept it, the appointment will show up in both your google calendar and that of the student.

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(This page is based on Prof. Fil Salustri's own document on the same topic.)