Michele- You might try this online resource. I use the personal booking as well as WhenIsGood.Net. http://signupsheet.com/ Juli ** Julia L Dunn Associate Dean of Students Title IX Administrator Whitman College Memorial 330 [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] 509.527.5158 (Work) 509.301.6824 (Cell) *"...We believe Whitman students have the ability to persist, succeed, and fully pursue their educational aspirations." * Advising <http://www.whitman.edu/academics/academic-support/academic-advising> • Academic Resources <http://www.whitman.edu/academics/academic-support/study-skills> • Title IX <http://whitman.edu/titleix> • Students of Concern <http://whitman.edu/assist> • Rights & Responsibilities <http://www.whitman.edu/academics/academic-support/handbooks/student-handbook/student-rights-and-responsibilities> On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 3:03 PM, Michele Doney <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hello all, > > Hope your summer's going well! > > We're running a study group pilot in the fall that will require us to form > study groups based on schedule availability information gathered from about > 250 students in a targeted intervention. I need to present students with a > total of about 42 possible time/day options during the week and enable them > to tell me which times they are available, and among those times, which > times they actually prefer so I can do my best to accommodate their > preferences. I do this with the tutor work schedule pretty simply using a > schedule grid in Excel that they fill out and either print or email back to > me (X=cannot work, O= prefer to work, blank = could work it if you had > to), but I don't want to try that with 250 incoming freshmen who may not > even have easy access to Excel at home. > > This seems to me like it's probably a pretty common problem for folks who > run learning centers with targeted interventions. I bet folks who run > mandatory SI programs face this a lot. Can anybody suggest a free online > tool or other solution? We've already considered and ruled out Doodle > (uses actual dates instead of just days), SurveyMonkey (the question > formats are limited in such a way that we'd literally have to ask the same > question 42 times), and Google Forms (same as SurveyMonkey). However, if > you know tricks that I don't and you're using one of these successfully, > I'm all ears! > > Thanks! > > Michele > > Michele Costabile Doney, MSEd > Director, Math & Science Resource Center > Adjunct Instructor, Department of Mathematics & Computer Science > Recording Secretary, Higher Education Officers Council > Secretary, Association for the Tutoring Profession > NCLCA Certified Learning Center Professional - Level One > John Jay College of Criminal Justice > [1172 Math & Science Resource logo cropped] > Room 01.94 NB > 524 W 59 ST > New York, NY 10019 > T.646-557-4595 > > "Helping Under-prepared Students Prepare, Prepared Students Advance, and > Advanced Students Excel" - The NADE Motto > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > To access the LRNASST-L archives or User Guide, or to change your > subscription options (including subscribe/unsubscribe), point your web > browser to > http://www.lists.ufl.edu/archives/lrnasst-l.html > > To contact the LRNASST-L owner, email [log in to unmask] > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To access the LRNASST-L archives or User Guide, or to change your subscription options (including subscribe/unsubscribe), point your web browser to http://www.lists.ufl.edu/archives/lrnasst-l.html To contact the LRNASST-L owner, email [log in to unmask]