Creating a Microsoft Bookings Calendar

Purpose

This article provides the instructions to create a new booking calendar for the first time. Bookings are only available for faculty and staff.

Explanation

• Log in to Bookings.
• On the initial welcome page, select Get it now.

• Choose Create new calendar.

• Enter the name of your Bookings Calendar.
  • OIT recommends and requests that you include the word "Bookings" in the name of your calendar for easier management.
• You can leave the Business type field blank and click Continue, as shown below.

• You can add team members from your organization by using the search function and assign a "Team member" or "Administrator" role in the Bookings.

• Edit the service by entering the meeting name, duration, days of the week the service will be available, and time.
• Check if it is an online teams meeting, select Update Service.

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• Set permissions on who can see the bookings page, check availability, and make an appointment. Select Create Calendar.
• OIT recommends selecting the option to require login if all the people who would be booking appointments belong to the UTD community.

• Your Bookings calendar is now set up! You are now at the Bookings settings page.