How to Use Appointment Schedule in Google Calendar
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1. Log into my.torontomu (your TMU Portal) and go to the Apps tab.
Note: Appointment schedule do not work on your private/personal Google Calendar, they only work on the TMU Google Workspace version.
2. Click on Calendar from the Google Workspace menu.
3. Navigate to the week when you want to start your office hour.
4. Click and drag to create a regular appointment spanning the total length of that particular office hour session. An input box appears as shown in the Figure 1. Note that in this example we’re setting up a block of office hours lasting four hours.
5. Click on Appointment schedule in the input box and you will see a screen shown on the image right.
![Figure 1 Figure 1](/content/dam/google/getting-started/google-calendar/appt-sched/Appt_schedule_fig1.jpg)
Note: If you do not see Appointment schedule as a choice, but see Appointment slots, you will need to turn on Appointment schedule in your Google Calendar settings. Information on how to turn on Appointment schedule can be found Appointment Schedule news article (opens in new window) .
6. Add a title, e.g. “Office Hours” as shown in Figure 2, and select "Create a new appoitment schedule" radio button and select Continue to proceed.
![Figure 2 Figure 2](/content/dam/google/getting-started/google-calendar/appt-sched/appt_sched_fig2.png)
7. You will now see this screen and here you can start inputting details regarding your appointments
![Figure 3](/content/dam/google/getting-started/google-calendar/appt-sched/appt_sched_fig3.png)
8. Here you can select the length of each appointment. By default, it will start with 30 minutes slot, but this can be changed to any length of time of your choosing.
![Figure 4](/content/dam/google/getting-started/google-calendar/appt-sched/appt_sched_fig4.png)
9. You can change general availability here. You can add multiple days within a week and have this appointment schedule repeat weekly.
![Figure 5](/content/dam/google/getting-started/google-calendar/appt-sched/appt_sched_fig5.png)
10. You can select down arrow next to "Scheduling window" to see full options for scheduling window. The image on right, you see the default values that you can change per your requirements.
![Figure 6](/content/dam/google/getting-started/google-calendar/appt-sched/appt_sched_fig6.png)
11. You can update your availability here. If for some reason you are unavailable on repeating schedule, you can select the days you are unavailable.
12. You can update booked appointment settings here. You can add buffer time between appointment slots and maximum number of booking to be allowed per day.
13. After adding details on this page, you can select Next button to proceed to the second page of appointment details.
![Figure 7](/content/dam/google/getting-started/google-calendar/appt-sched/appt_sched_fig7.png)
14. In second page, you can take a look at Booking page photo and name. This option will always grab your account photo and name.
15. You can also select location and conferencing options. Here you can select from Google Meet video conferencing, in-person meeting, phone call or none.
Note: Google Meet option will create a separate and distinct meeting ID for every appointment slots.
![Figure 8](/content/dam/google/getting-started/google-calendar/appt-sched/appt_sched_fig8.png)
16. You can enter the description of the appointments.
17. Next section you can customize the booking form each individual needs to fill out. Three form questions (First name, Last name, and Email address) are mandatory and you can add any additional questions that can be mandatory or optional by clicking Add an item.
Note: Require email verification is in place to prevent malicious booking, where it will require emailed verificaiton code to be entered by the individual booking the appointment.
![Figure 9](/content/dam/google/getting-started/google-calendar/appt-sched/appt_sched_fig9.png)
18. Last section allow you to set up a reminder for those who have booked an appointment. You can customize when the reminder is sent and add multiple reminders.
19. After last details have been updated, you can select Save button.
![Figure 10](/content/dam/google/getting-started/google-calendar/appt-sched/appt_sched_fig10.png)