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Scheduling Preferences
Your scheduling preferences allow you to modify appointment booking rules, controlling exactly when a student can book appointments, how many appointments they can book, and much more. These preferences will apply to all centers within the profile.
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- Schedule no sooner than...And no later than
- This preference controls how early or late a student can book an appointment.
- Determines how late the student can book an appointment.
- Minimum and Maximum Appointment Duration
- This preference controls the minimum/maximum possible appointment time. If you exclusively offer 30 or 45-minute appointments, you can set these preferences to match that difference.
- Default appointment duration
- The default duration of an appointment. Typically used in an open-schedule environment, where consultants are available for many hours at a time, this will be the default duration when a student goes to book an appointment.
- Appointment start in increments of
- Increments of time that booked appointments can start at. For example, if this preference is set to 15 minutes, appointments could be booked at 9:15, 9:30, 9:45, and so on.
- Appointment duration in increments of
- Increments of time that an appointment can be booked for. For example, if this is set to 10 minutes, appointments can be booked for 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 40, and so on.
- Restrict duration to intervals
- The durations specified here will control the appointment durations shown during the appointment booking process.
- Prevent booking consecutive appointments same student / consultant:
- This prevents students from booking consecutive appointments with a tutor. Prevent Student applies this rule to students booking their own appointments, and Prevent Staff applies this rule to staff members booking on behalf of students. If the staff member's permission group has override permissions, they can override this rule (a warning informs them of this).
- Allow entry into online appointment session
- These preferences control how soon/late a student can join a remote tutoring session by restricting when the Join button is available. If you’d like the student to be able to join 5 minutes prior to the start time through to the end, you would need to set “No sooner than” to 00:05 and set “No later than” to a value such as “1:00” (assuming you’re holding 1-hour appointments).
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Each group of settings—Reasons, Locations, Sections, Fund—can be precisely adjusted to control where they show up and whether or not they’re required.
Enter in avail determines whether or not the field shows up within the availability entry window.
Enter in appointment determines whether or not the field shows up within the appointment entry window.
Required marks the field as required, so it must be filled out prior to booking the appointment.
- Appointment Location Choices
- Allows to you to customize the locations available to choose from on Availability and Appointment entry.
- Allows you to customize the funds available to choose from on Availability and Appointment entry.
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- Allow students to cancel appointments
- Provides students the option to cancel appointments (as long as they’re outside the time range specified in the first menu.)
- Display consultant alias on availability search
- This will display the consultant’s alias (specified in their staff profile) rather than their full name when students/staff are searching for availabilities.
- Display consultant email/phone on appointment entry
- Displays the consultant’s specified contact information within appointment records.
- Allow user to enter Visit notes / send emails on group roster
- Provides the ability to enter visit notes or send emails directly from the group appointment/roster view.
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- Allow sessions to be marked as ‘live doc’ sessions
- If the Whiteboard module is in use, this preference can be enabled to allow sessions to be marked as “Live doc”. This allows consultants and students to join a virtual Whiteboard room with text-chat and a shared document.
- Allow student to upload documents to the appointment
- Controls whether or not students can upload documents to the appointment record.
- Allow staff to upload documents to the appointment
- Controls whether or not staff can upload documents to the appointment record.
- Block students from booking recurring appointments
- Prevents students from booking recurring appointments.
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- Appointment Status Choices
- These are the statuses that appointments can be set to. Typically, this would be set to something similar to the above example, with an Attended, Missed, and Canceled status, however, you can modify the choices if needed. Statuses containing the phrase “Cancel” will always cancel the appointment, making it available for other users to book (provided they’re still within the “schedule no later than” time limit.)
- This is the status that TracCloud views as “Attended.” When students log in and log out during their appointment time, this is the status that the appointment will be automatically set to. If a staff member manually marks an appointment as this Attended status, a visit record will be automatically created.
- This is the status that TracCloud views as “Missed.” Just like the above preference, this is the status that appointments without matching visits will be automatically set to.
- Calc Missed Appointments Since
- A student’s total number of missed appointments can be utilized in emails via the Twig tag “CalcMissedAppointments(Student.Sequence, Center.ProfileID)”. This date determines how far back TracCloud searches for missed appointments. If this preference is blank, the global System Preferences date is used instead. More information on Twig can be found in our dedicated Twig document.
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These preferences allow you to restrict students from booking excessive appointments, or prevent booking/logins altogether. “Max Appointment Rules” allow you to create restrictions that will dynamically block students from booking appointments if their appointment threshold his met, while “Block Students to this Profile” allows you to outright remove access to TracCloud features based whether or not the student is on a specified List.
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- Allow a maximum of X [hours/appointments] with:
- Choose how many appointments/total hours a student can book within the restrictions assigned below.
- Same: [Consultant / Reason / Center / Subject / Location]
- This allows you to narrow down the restriction to specific fields. Maybe you don’t want a student booking excessively with a specific consultant, or booking too many appointments for a specific reason, this is where you would apply these rules.
- Search clauses allow you to be much more specific beyond the “Same:” settings. Here you can add a specific Reason, rather than reasons as a whole. You can only apply this rule to a specific center by adding a center clause. You can even select Student fields here, such as Status, Grad, and Major, that way you can apply this rule to only a specific set of students.
- in X [Days / Weeks / Months / Terms / Years]
- The time period for this rule. This lets you choose when this rule is put into effect, maybe you want to restrict students from booking more than 3 appointments per week, or 10 appointments per month. This preference is where you’ll make that decision.
- If “1 week” is used, this will be on a Sunday to Saturday schedule, if “1 month” is used, this will be the first to last day of the month. If you would prefer any 7 or 30-day window, you will need to use something like “7 Days” rather than “1 Week”.
- Appointment dates in the time period
- The date range that this rule is effective for. Maybe the start of the semester, or a yearly period.
- This Student applies to only the student booking the appointment. John Doe (a student) can’t book more than 3 appointments with the same consultant per week.
- All Students applies to every student. Jane Smith (a tutor) can’t be booked more than 3 appointments per day (by students).
- Allows you to only apply this rule to a certain list of students (or students not on a specific list).
- Which appointment types should this apply do? If left blank, this rule is applied to all courses. However, you can also only apply this rule to one-on-one or in-person appointments if needed.
Block Students to this Profile- Prevent Scheduling is where you will select a list of students that you want to prevent from booking appointments.
- Message to Display to a Blocked Student is the message displayed when a student on that list tries to book an appointment.
- Prevent Login prevents the student from being logged in on the Log Listing or a Kiosk.
- Message to Display to a Blocked Student is the message displayed when the student tries to login on a Kiosk or a staff member tries to log them in on the Log Listing.
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