week 15: google calendar appointment slots

One new skill I’ve learned this year (and practiced earlier today) is how to create appointment slots on google calendar. This is how we’ve organized our virtual parent teacher conferences. This allows families to go to my google calendar appointment page and sign up for an available slot at a time of their choice. I’m guessing the ability to make appointment slots is available for an organization who has additional google features as it is not available on my personal google calendar. In addition to using appointment slots for parent teacher conferences, I also used them to organize my interviews for my capstone project.

Appointment slots are selected when you create an event. You will enter the overall time frame of all the slots and the length of each appointment slot. Once the event is created, you can access the link to your appointment page by clicking on “go to the appointment page for this calendar.” This link can then be shared with others.

One way I think appointment slots could be improved is by allowing a marked off time between appointments. For example, my conferences next week are 5 minutes long with a minute in between. I would prefer if families could only sign up for 5 minute increments and then already have the one minute in between blocked off. As it stands now, I meet with the family 5 minutes early and then have to end the conference technically one minute early to prepare for my next scheduled conference.