Features of MyConferenceTime:
- Very affordable pricing. You schedule parent-teacher conferences a few times a year. Organizing them shouldn’t cost thousands of dollars.
- Teachers quickly and easily post their conference schedule online.
- Parents signup for an available conference and immediately know the date and time of the appointment.
- Parents receive confirmation email.
- Parents can view multiple teachers’ schedules side-by-side to schedule several conferences on the same date during the same time period.
- English and Spanish translations included with each subscription.
- Administrative conference reports showing the total number of available conferences and the number of conferences scheduled by day or by teacher.
- Teachers’ option to receive confirmation email for each conference.
- Twenty customizable field names – you decide if the site will say “Student’s First Name,” “Child’s First Name,” etc. You decide which fields will be displayed. You decide which fields will be optional or required.
- Once a parent signs up for a conference, the time slot is reserved and no one else is able to sign up for that opening.
- Search feature for staff to find specific students’ conference dates and times.
- Customizable statuses to indicate completed, postponed, or canceled conferences.
- Quick, easy administrative controls to instantly lock, unlock or delete conferences school-wide.
- Compatible with scheduling student-led conferences.
- Administrators can email each teacher a pdf attachment of his/her schedule prior to conferences.
- Options to schedule one conference per time slot, multiple conferences per time slot, or even zero conferences per time slot to block out time for dinner.
- All information is confidential and secure via 256-bit encryption.
- Teachers can view each other’s schedule.
- Flexibility allows for scheduling conferences, arranging meetings, setting up athletic physicals: unlimited possibilities.
- Teachers can lock their schedule to prevent surprise, last-minute online signups.
- Once a schedule is set up for one teacher, the template can be quickly copied and used by other teachers.
- Parents who do not have Internet access can be signed up by the teacher – quickly, easily via a phone call or note from home.
- Teachers can send email reminders to parents prior to conferences.
- Only school staff members have accounts. Parents simply sign up without logging in – no parent username/password to distribute.
- Conference data can be downloaded as an Excel file.
- Best of all, FislerData’s excellent customer service.