This tutorial will explain how students can schedule meetings within their Office 365 calendar.
Instructions
Please note that meetings with instructors and advisors should be done through StarFish. StarFish can be accessed here: https://ntc.starfishsolutions.com/starfish-ops
Please log into your Office365 email by visiting to https://outlook.office365.com/ntc.edu
Once Logged into your email, in the bottom left corner is the calendar icon, please click on it:
Once you are in your calendar, click on New event:
You will now be presented with the New Calendar Entry dialog box.
The First thing you will want to do is to add a meaningful title:
Next, you will want to invite who you want to attend the meeting:
If the attendee is a NTC employee or student, you can search by their last name.
Please notes that NTC employee emails end in ntc.edu and student emails end in students.ntc.edu
Once you find the person(s) you want to invite to the meeting, simply click on that person:
Once you have all your meeting participants selected, click on the Scheduling Assistant to find when everyone is available:
The Scheduling Assistant will show you when all participants are available or busy.
The green bar means that all participants are available at that time. If the bar is a red color, then at least one person is not available at that time:
With your mouse, you can simply click and drag the bar until it turns green and then release the mouse.
Once the bar turns green, click the Done button in the upper left corner:
As you can see, the Calendar dialog box automatically will update the Date and Time of the meeting:
You can choose to repeat the meeting if you so desire by clicking on the Repeat drop-down:
You can also set a reminder for your meeting by clicking on the Remind me drop-down:
You will need to be in your email or have email synched to your mobile device in order for reminders to work
In the last section of the calendar entry you can add comments if you wish to provide any information pertinent to the meeting:
Once you have everything set up, hit the send button:
If you look on your calendar, you can see the entry has now been created. The people you have invited to the meeting will also get a meeting request email from you.
If you click once on your meeting you can see that status on whether the invitees have responded to your meeting request:
Once the person(s) accept or decline your meeting invite the status will change:
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