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Do you need an easy way for students or other staff to book time with you or another resource? Microsoft Bookings may meet your needs, and it is already available to most Western faculty and staff.

Bookings can help you:

• Provide services by appointment that you previously provided on a walk-in basis.
• Limit the number of visitors to your office for a block of time, if you choose to allow multiple people to book the same time slot.

Bookings can be used for something as simple as Office Hours, or it can provide a highly customized and powerful scheduling experience for multiple services provided by a team of people.

Bookings is similar to the popular Calendly app, but Bookings is fully integrated with Outlook and Teams. Like Calendly, you can provide a link in your email signature, or on a web page, that allows others to view and book available appointments with you. Departments and individuals can also allow others to book multiple types of appointments, and even have those appointments automatically booked with an employee or shared mailbox calendar. You can allow people to cancel or change the appointments themselves, and automatic reminders can be sent via email and text message.

Appointments can be booked for a specific location, or automatically created as an online meeting in Microsoft Teams. You can specify the days of the week and the times of the day when a service will be available for booking. And, since Bookings is fully integrated with Outlook, it will not book you at a time when you already have another event on your calendar … unless you tell Bookings to ignore your calendar.

Check out the links below to learn more!