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titleClick here to view information about Appointment Slots.

If you ever find a need to offer time blocks when you are available to meet with people, appointment slots may meet your need. One of the most popular uses for appointment slots are professors offering the option to reserve a time slot during office hours.

Things to note:

  • When you create appointment slots, you are set to busy for the duration of the appointment slot block(s).
  • Anyone you add as a guest to the appointment slot is invited to all of the appointments that get reserved. Their calendar will also show them as busy.
  • Those you want to reserve a time should follow the link to the appointment page for your calendar.

If you want to consistently offer a time for drop-in appointments, you can create recurring appointment blocks and share the calendar link - either with those you want to offer appointments to, or as part of your signature if that makes sense for you.

Appointment Scheduling

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Google is beginning to offer something they refer to as appointment schedules. These schedules will be available in your Drew account, and limited other Google Workspace editions (learn more at the Google support page).

Right now, you can use appointment schedules or appointment slots, but not both at the same time. Google lays out the differences as well as how to switch back to slots in their support article.

Features:

  • When someone opens your appointment schedule link, they will see a "booking page" that is automatically updated to remove any available appointments when you have had to schedule a different appointment. Image Added
  • You can share the appointment schedule link with non-Google accounts.
  • You can add cushions of time between booked appointments.
  • You can require some information be filled out at the time an appointment is booked (in our example, we added a customer field asking for favorite food!)
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What does not work:

  • You cannot add colleagues to appointments automatically (for this, switch back to appointment slots for now).



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We will add more topics over time. Feel free to watch this page (an option up at the top for those logged in) if you want to be notified of changes!

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