All Geneseo faculty, staff, and students have a geneseo.edu Google account that includes calendar. This self help document describes options for making appointment times available for students, colleagues, and external contacts.
Before You Start
- Determine which Google calendar will be used for appointment scheduling.
- Personal calendar
- Department account calendar
- A new Google calendar created for this purpose
- Identify people who will schedule appointments with you.
- Geneseo students
- Geneseo faculty & staff
- External customers (incoming students, parents, vendors, etc.)
Appointment Scheduling Options
| Method |
Best for meeting with |
Advantages |
Disadvantages |
For More Information |
| Google Meetings |
Geneseo Account Holders
(faculty, staff, students) |
- all Geneseo users have a Calendar account
- Geneseo departments have at least one Google account
|
- Requires basic knowledge of how to schedule group meetings
- Permissions must be changed to allow meetings with external users
|
Google Calendar Help |
| Google Appointment Schedules |
Geneseo Account Holders
External Contacts |
- appointment page can be shared via email, as a link, or embedded in a Google page
|
- Some advance features are only available with purchase of add-ons that are not available to Geneseo users
|
Learn About appointment schedules in Google Calendar |
| Navigate |
Geneseo Students |
- students can easily find your service via the Navigate student app
- students do not need to know who they must meet with – more than one Google user can accept appointments for a service location
|
- Appointments are only available for Geneseo students
|
Office of Advising
navigate@geneseo.edu |
YouCanBook.me
Calendly.com |
External Customers
Geneseo Account Holders |
- Free integration with Google
- Easy to share calendar with external participants without changing calendar permissions
- Simple interface
- Can restrict
|
- Free version is limited to single-calendar setup
- Services do not have Geneseo look-and-feel or branding
- Cannot pool calendars to offer meetings with more than one person
|
https://youcanbook.me
https://calendly.com |
| Doodle |
Mix of Geneseo and non-Geneseo participants |
- An easy way to schedule meetings with a large group of participants
- Simple to use interface
|
- Free version has limited features
- Free version cannot schedule the final meeting – participants must transfer it to their own calendar(s)
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https://doodle.com/en/ |
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