WOW Wednesday – O365 Bookings for Parent-Teacher Interviews

     Every Wednesday I highlight some of our amazing MVSD staff on our social media pages. Everyday our staff are using tech in new and exciting ways, are learning new skills, and are sharing ways in which ed tech is assisting them in their practice.

View this post on Instagram

A post shared by Kirsten Thompson – ICT (@thompsonclassroom)

The use of Office 365 Bookings has streamlined our Parent-Teacher Interview Process in multiple ways:

• our secretarial, admin, and teaching staff are no longer required to manage incoming appointment times
• our teachers know automatically when their bookings are as they sync to their Outlook calendars
• Teams video meeting links are autogenerated for every family who requires this method
• families receive notification reminders of their appointment times

Bookings is an Office 365 tool for those with an A5 license. In MVSD this is available to our building administrators who set this up on behalf of their school (staff do not need this license to be added in as an option). Setting this up with our admin team was a breeze thanks to Mike Tholfsen at Microsoft who put together this tutorial that clearly outlines every step!