Online Parent Teacher bookings?

Hi - anyone using an online parent/ teacher interview booking system? Any favourites or recommendations?

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Permalink Reply by Zach Vander Veen on May 26, 2010 at 8:10am

Somewhat complicated - but it works and it's opensource (free) - is MRBS.

Easier, but you'd have to fiddle a bit, is a combination of google forms and google spreadsheet.

Or possibly using google calendar's autoaccept feature?

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan Wylie on May 26, 2010 at 9:06pm

This may be too simple, but there is always http://www.signappnow.com/

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Permalink Reply by Janet Fox on May 29, 2010 at 8:45pm

We were very happy using a Google Doc spread sheet this year. Parents were happy. Teachers were happy. Cost was $0, so the Admin was happy...

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Permalink Reply by Allison Hart on May 29, 2010 at 11:52pm

we've used pickatime.com with good response from parents. it's not the most intuitive, but works pretty well for both single and multi-teachers sign ups (we are K-12). Not free, but not terribly expensive either.

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Permalink Reply by Michael Finney on May 31, 2010 at 10:00am

Definitely TimeDriver. You have the option to schedule a live meeting, skype meeting, or telephone conference. It works with Outlook or Google Calendar. It allows people to schedule meetings with you automatically and it plugs it into your calendar if the time is available. Just have to remember that if you don't want to be available, block the time out. If not, people will be able to schedule times when you may not want to. There is a small fee after the trial (think it is like $30.00/yr), but well worth it. Has saved me a lot of time chasing sessions and meetings.

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Permalink Reply by Kate Tracy on June 1, 2010 at 2:33am

Thanks so much! We're currently looking at a few options - none seem to have all the bits we need. We'd like to b able to run an 'error' report identifying those who don't book in. We'll check this out.