Describe your availability and meeting format. Makeform turns the brief into an office hours appointment form with slot choices, topic questions, and confirmations you can edit before sharing.
Send appointment requests to Google Sheets, Slack, and Zapier.
Sample prompts for the builder
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Audience
Students in one undergraduate course
Format
15-minute in-person or video slots
Prompt size
274 chars
Example form structure
15-minute in-person or video slots
Student name, email, and course section
Choose an available appointment slot
In person or video call?
What topic or assignment should we discuss?
What is your main question?
Suggested routing tags
Course questions
Advising
Remote meetings
Label every choice with its date, start time, time zone, and meeting format.
Step 1
Offer
publish clear dates, times, and formats
Step 2
Choose
student selects a suitable appointment slot
Step 3
Prepare
topic and materials arrive before the meeting
Step 4
Meet
both sides have the same appointment details
Why use an appointment form
Students choose a time and explain the visit while the instructor gets an agenda in advance.
Present dates, time zones, durations, and formats instead of asking when students are free.
Ask for the course, assignment, topic, and desired outcome before the student arrives.
Tag submissions by course, section, topic, or meeting format for easier routing.
Built for student support
Change appointment length, audience, topics, and preparation questions in the builder.
Recurring appointments organized by section, assignment, and question.
Meetings with program details, advising topics, and goals.
Help slots routed by section, assignment, or experiment.
Attendee details, draft uploads, and feedback priorities.
Setup workflow
Describe the meeting pattern, review the generated fields, and publish one clear path for students to request office hours.
Provide the audience, slot length, available times, time zone, formats, and required details.
Insert your schedule, require essential fields, and add conditional follow-ups.
Explain what happens next, what to prepare, and where to meet.
Publish the link, then route submissions to your preferred workflow.
Form vs email vs drop-in
A form adds structure when time is limited or context is needed in advance.
Field guide
Use six sections to make each booking clear and useful.
Student details
Collect the identifiers needed to reply. Course and section keep requests separated.
Appointment choice
Combine the date, time zone, duration, and format. State whether it is confirmed or awaiting approval.
Meeting purpose
Use a topic selector for routing and an open question for the actual obstacle.
Preparation
For reviews or technical help, collect a file, link, assignment number, or attempted solution.
Conditional details
Use logic to show format, team, or advising questions only when applicable.
Confirmation
Repeat the next step and whether the time is reserved or reviewed first.
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Open toolFAQ
Practical answers for professors, advisors, and teaching assistants setting up student bookings.
Students use it to choose or request time with a professor, advisor, or teaching assistant. It collects contact details, a slot, format, topic, and preparation material.
Start with student name, school email, course, slot, format, topic, and main question. Add assignment references, uploads, or advising follow-ups when useful.
Write each choice with its date, start time, time zone, duration, and format. For example: Tuesday, September 8, 2:15–2:30 p.m. Pacific, video call. Also tell students whether choosing the slot confirms it or sends a request for review.
A standard multiple-choice field can present your slots, but live removal or locking of a slot after one submission requires availability-aware booking behavior. If that behavior is not active in your setup, review submissions, remove filled options promptly, or connect the form to a scheduling workflow before presenting a selection as confirmed.
Yes. Conditional logic can reveal relevant follow-ups. Advising might ask about program and graduation term; coursework help might ask for the assignment and attempted solution.
Let the student select a format, then show format-specific instructions. An in-person choice can display the building and room; an online choice can explain when and how the meeting link will be provided. Always label the appointment time with its time zone.
Submissions arrive in your Makeform response area and can route to a spreadsheet, Slack, or Zapier. Course, topic, and format fields support sorting.
Yes. Makeform is unlimited free for generating, editing, publishing, and collecting responses with your form. The paid tier removes the Makeform badge.
Turn office hours into prepared conversations.
