BatchBook
Use Case

Office Hours Scheduling
Made Simple

Stop playing email tag with students and clients. Send one link, collect everyone's availability, and schedule 20+ office hours appointments in 10 minutes.

The Old Way (Painful)

You're a professor with 25 students requesting office hours this week.

Email 25 individual students asking when they're available

Wait 24-48 hours for responses (some never reply)

Sarah suggests Tuesday 2pm. Check calendar—you're teaching

Counter with Wednesday 3pm. She has class. Suggest Thursday

Repeat this process with 24 more students

Create calendar events manually for each confirmed time

Three students show up at the same time because you made a mistake

Time spent:

3-4 hours

Plus the stress of scheduling conflicts and missed appointments

The BatchBook Way (Simple)

Same scenario: 25 students requesting office hours.

1

Create collection

Set up "Week of Dec 18 - Office Hours" with 30-minute time slots

2

Send one link

Email all 25 students the same link to submit their availability

3

Assign slots in bulk

See everyone's availability on a heat map. Assign time slots with drag-and-drop

Time spent:

10 minutes

All appointments scheduled with zero conflicts

Why professors and consultants choose BatchBook

Save 3+ hours per week

Stop the endless back-and-forth. Schedule all your office hours appointments in one session.

Zero scheduling conflicts

Visual heat map shows when everyone is available. No more double-bookings or confusion.

Better student experience

Students submit availability once and get instant confirmation. No waiting for email replies.

Automatic reminders

Send calendar invites with one click. Students get reminders automatically.

Recurring office hours

Set up weekly office hours once. Use the same process every week all semester.

Group and 1-on-1

Handle individual appointments, group sessions, and review sessions all in one place.

"BatchBook transformed my office hours from a weekly nightmare into a 10-minute task. My students love the simplicity, and I get 3 hours back every week to focus on research and teaching."
DR
Dr. Rachel Kim
Associate Professor of Computer Science, UC Berkeley

Real example

How Dr. Rachel scheduled 28 office hours appointments in 12 minutes

Monday 9am

Created collection "Finals Week Office Hours" with 30-minute slots from Mon-Fri, 2pm-5pm

Monday 9:05am

Emailed link to all 120 students in her two classes via course management system

Tuesday 10am

28 students had submitted their availability (BatchBook sent her a notification)

Tuesday 10:10am

Opened heat map. Saw that Tuesday 2-3pm had the most availability. Assigned 6 students to Tuesday slots with drag-and-drop

Tuesday 10:18am

Assigned remaining 22 students to Wednesday-Friday slots. Sent calendar invites to all 28 students with one click

Tuesday 10:21am

Done. All 28 appointments scheduled. Zero conflicts. Students have calendar invites with Zoom links

12 min
Total time spent
28
Appointments scheduled
0
Scheduling conflicts

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