This year, I streamlined lesson scheduling for my large (30+) studio of violin and viola students by creating this base. I estimate it has saved me at least 15 hours of back-and-forth emailing! I sent my studio families the form via email, and they filled out their preferred lesson times, assuming that lesson times stay the same after the first week of classes. Then I was able to view those time ranges in the calendar view, to see who could go where. To encourage families to respond, I even had a little raffle, and parents who submitted their form before the cutoff (using the time stamp field), could win an iTunes gift card.
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Now that I have all this data, if families need to switch times in the future, I will be able to give them some options.
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