Google appointment calendars allow you to create a sign-up calendar for meetings with students and community members. As other calendar invites (not appointment calendars) populate your calendar, your availability on your appointment calendar will update appropriately. Follow these steps to get started:
Create Appointment Calendar
Create a regularcalendar event on your Riverdale Google Calendar
Click on Appointment schedule
Click on Create a new appointment schedule
Click on Continue
Configure Appointment Calendar
Give your appointment calendar a title under Add title (ex. Mr. van Mierlo's Extra Help Sign-up)
Set your Appointment duration to the desired length
If you want this to repeat on a schedule (regardless of the 8-day rotation) choose either Repeat weekly or Does not repeat
Click the + next to the appropriate day to add availability or bookable times (ex. 1:00PM - 3:00PM)
You don't need to worry about your class schedule or other meetings
Anything that is already booked on your calendar will NOT appear on the appointment calendar as an available time
Click on Booked appointment settings
If you want to add a buffer time around your appointments (ex. 5 minutes before and after) check the box under Buffer time and adjust the settings
Change any other settings you need to, and click Next
Add a descriptions in the Description field
Change any other settings you need to, and click Save
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Share Appointment Calendar
On your Google Calendar, click on one of the appointment windows you scheduled for your appointment calendar
Click Share
Click Link
Click Copy link
Share the link with your students or colleagues. They will be able to book events easily this way!
