Scheduling a student - what do you *actually* use?

Scheduling a student - what do you *actually* use?

by Henning Bostelmann -
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Hello all,

here's a short question to Scheduler users, which however needs some explanation.

Teachers can, at any time, create appointments for students by editing the corresponding slot (clicking "edit" in the list of slots) and adding the student there. However, there are also some shortcuts for the same task, namely via the "Schedule" and "Mark as seen now" buttons in the list of students.

The screens used for these have changed a bit in the latest version as I have reorganized the underlying code. It seems that they can still use some fine-tuning (cf. CONTRIB-5134), and I have always felt that it's a bit unclear whether Scheduler does at that point what users actually want.

Therefore, I wanted to do a quick opinion poll: which of the following scenarios are actually relevant in your use of Scheduler?

a) The teacher selects a student, then enters date and time for a new appointment.
b) The teacher selects a student, then selects an existing slot to schedule the student in this slot (without further modifications to the slot).
c) The teacher selects a student, then selects an existing slot and edits the slot data  (e.g., changes location, slot description, date or time).
d) The teacher selects a student and marks him as "seen now" (i.e. creates a new slot at the current date and time in which this student is added, and marked as "seen").
e) any other variation of the above

Sorry for the slightly lengthy (but hopefully clear) message, and I'm looking forward to your responses.

For us, by the way, I think the most commonly used feature is d)...

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Re: Scheduling a student - what do you *actually* use?

by Willy Lee -
I've seen mostly B, but with clearer text, D seems OK. More often than not, I think the answer on our campus is, doesn't do anything in scheduler, overrides grade in gradebook.
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Re: Scheduling a student - what do you *actually* use?

by Mark Pearson -

The way we use Scheduler most frequently is to emulate a 'sign up sheet', that is, Teacher posts a list of available slots and student selects the one they want.

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Re: Scheduling a student - what do you *actually* use?

by Henning Bostelmann -
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Thanks for your responses so far - and please keep adding more.

However, it seems to me from the number of responses that this is not such an urgent issue; I might return to it in a later release.