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Overview
Audience: Faculty, Staff
Microsoft Bookings is a scheduling application already included in faculty and staff's UARK account. It helps with managing appointments, consultations, office hours, interviews, and other meetings without the back-and-forth of emailing. Bookings integrates with Outlook and Microsoft Teams, allowing people to select available times based on your calendar while automatically generating confirmations, reminders, and online meeting links. Microsoft Bookings is an excellent choice when you need a simple way for others to book time with you, your team, or a group of people together.
Key Features
- Personal booking pages that allow others to schedule time with you based on your availability. Availability can be set by your work times or custom time frames.
- Shared booking pages for teams, departments, and service groups.
- Outlook calendar integration to help prevent scheduling conflicts and double-booking.
- Automatic email confirmations, reminders, and appointment updates.
- Microsoft Teams integration with automatic meeting link creation.
- Custom appointment types and meeting durations.
- Booking forms that can collect information before an appointment.
- Support for virtual and in-person appointments.
Tip: Microsoft Bookings can coordinate schedules for multiple people at once. For example, hiring committees can create interview appointment slots that only appear when everyone on the interview panel is available. Candidates simply select the time that works best for them, eliminating the need for a coordinator to manually compare calendars and schedule interviews.
Access
You can access Microsoft Bookings from a web browser, Microsoft Teams, or a mobile device. Be sure to log in using your @uark.edu email address.
Web App (Desktop)
- Visit myapps.microsoft.com.
- Sign in using your @uark.edu credentials.
- Select the Bookings icon. Note: The My Apps dashboard is customizable and may not be listed alphabetically.
- You will be redirected to the Microsoft Bookings web application.
Integrated in Microsoft Teams (Desktop app)
- Open Microsoft Teams.
- Select Apps or Store from the left navigation menu.
- Search for Bookings and add the app to Teams.
- Access and manage booking calendars directly from Teams left navigation menu.
Mobile App
Microsoft Bookings can be accessed through supported Microsoft 365 mobile experiences. Sign in using your @uark.edu account.
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