Calendar Appointment Scheduling for Individuals and Departments

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)
https://doodle.com/en/

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