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by Jon Westfall January 24, 2020 Teaching Tips Technology I have 2 offices, which means that when someone makes an appointment with me, they need to be aware which office Ill be meeting them at. My appointment provider (YouCanBook.Me) sends an appointment request to both myself and the person making the appointment, and I then update my copy with the location. This then sends the location out to the person making the appointment. However what happens if that person isnt used to appointment requests? Perhaps because theyre a college student, and havent experienced them yet? Typically they ignore them, or dont notice the location line or change at all. This semester I decided to try a new approach. When a person makes an appointment with me, it enters on my calendar with the prefix Appointment: and then the persons name. This means I can easily find my self-set appointments using Microsoft Power Automate (Flow). My goal was to have a script run every night at 8 PM that scans the next 24 hours of my calendar. If it finds an appointment set by someone, it emails them an automated reminder telling them where to meet me. It took me a couple of hours to get up and running, but is now working beautifully. Below is each step of my flow, and how to create it yourself. And thats it. The script has been running for a few weeks now without issue, and hopefully it will cut down on my frustration this semester with individuals unaware of where on campus Im meeting them! by Jon Westfall January 24, 2020 Psychology Teaching Tips Technology One of my classes this semester requires me to track how often students speak in class, and evaluate each comment. I also have students leading discussion, and I need to be able to generate completed rubrics easily for them so they get my feedback. Ive found that I can keep track of all of this in an Excel Spreadsheet on my iPad Pro, and that I can also use Excel to generate individual rubrics and a class wide participation report. Heres an example workbook that you can download and modify, ...