Outlook Calendar Appointment Slots

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We previously posted a video on workarounds for appointment slots, the popular calendar feature that was to be retired. Shortly thereafter, Google announced they would be keeping appointment slots, so we thought it would be a good time to introduce our video tutorial on the subject.

Appointment Slots In Outlook

Appointment slots allows users to set aside blocks of time on their calendars where their colleagues, clients or students can reserve specific portions. Each calendar also comes with a unique URL for the appointments page, so it can be easily shared or embedded.

This feature has become especially popular in the education community, where it’s perfect for teachers who want to specify ‘office hours’ on their calendars. A great way for teachers to use this feature is to create a group for all of their students, and invite that group to their appointment slots.

Click the Calendar icon on the Navigation Bar to open up and view the calendar where you want to add the appointment to You can view and arrange your calendar by the Day, Week, Work Week, Month or Schedule view. Click Month view to see the full month view. Through the calendar API, your app can similarly organize calendars in calendar groups, and interact with interesting calendars just like any other calendar in the user's mailbox. Outlook customers can apply categories to events, messages, contacts, tasks, and group posts in a consistent way to enhance organization and discovery. (Optional) If you want to create your appointment slot on another calendar, at the bottom click your name and select the calendar. Add a title and choose a date and time. Select the number of slots.

Outlook Calendar Create Appointment Slots

There are plenty of other use cases as well, like small business owners who want to inform their customers of their availability. Appointment slots is a really useful feature, so learn more about it in this Gooru video!

Appointment Slots In Outlook Calendar

Note – Here is a link to Google’s original announcement that Appointment slots will be retired. An update is featured at the bottom of the announcement indicating that Appointment slots will continue to be supported for Google Apps for Business, Education and Government users only.