Rapla Appointments section

Overview

Adding new appointments within your Paradigm Session/Event is possible as long as you are allowing the student to attend ALL of the new appointments that you’ve added under that session/event. Note that when you are using the Session Group/Class in your scheduling, all the new appointments added within a Paradigm Session/Event will automatically inherit the group and class number values being set for that session/event. This knowledge article will discuss all the possible features available under the Rapla Appointments section.

BE ADVISED

When creating sessions with the group and class number values in Rapla with multiple appointments, and you don’t want the student to attend ALL of the appointment series in that session/event, you have to make sure that each unique group and class number combination is created as one Paradigm Session/Event. Each new appointment created within a session/event will inherit the group and class number values being set for that session/event.

WARNING

If you happen to have already synced your Rapla sessions/events into Paradigm and you are planning to do a resync due to some changes in your sessions, please refer to this knowledge article for the implications: Resync: Level of impact on various changes to the Rapla event details.

Rapla: New Event > Paradigm Session: Appointments section

Add New Appointment

BE ADVISED:

Always refer to this page: Level of impact on various changes to the Rapla event details for the possible implications when adding new appointments in your Paradigm Session/Event.

Sample Scenario

Given the sample event created below, a lecture (BEM1008) with a weekly event every Monday at 9:00-11:00AM. Take note that this event has no Group and Class Number values. For the purposes of demonstrating how to add a new appointment as a repeating event, with the currently set event for the Monday lecture, you wanted to add another Wednesday lecture with the same number of times as your Monday lecture. With this set, you want the student to enrol in the Monday and Wednesday lectures every week for the duration of your repeat event.

Also, take note how in the Course Plan that Monday session event will look like:

How to Add a New Appointment with Repeating sessions

  1. With the existing Paradigm Event/Session created above, if you want to add a new repeating appointment you want the student to automatically be enrolled: based on the sample scenario above – the Monday Lecture Session, will also automatically enrol the Wednesday Lecture.

  2. Right-click on the Paradigm Session that you want to add a new repeating appointment to, click the Edit option. This will open the Paradigm Session details.

    3. Go to the Appointments section, 1 click the New button. 2 This will add a new appointment in the space below.3 On the right side of the Appointments section, set the time and dates: You have the option to set your repeating session as Weekly, Daily, Monthly, or Yearly. 4 Manage your resources as necessary and as required. Click the Save button to add the changes to your event/session.

Take note of how in the Course Plan that Wednesday repeating lecture session event will look like with the Monday lecture:

 

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Sample Scenario

Following the scenario in the above section, say, you wanted to schedule a one-off event at the end of the semester for a seminar.

How to Add a New Appointment with a One-Off session

1. With the existing Paradigm sessions created above, if you want to add another one-off appointment you want the student to automatically be enrolled: based on the sample scenario above – the Monday Lecture Session, will also automatically enrol the Wednesday Lecture, and an additional end of the semester seminar as a one-off event.

2. Right-click on the Paradigm Session that you want to add a new repeating appointment to, click the Edit option. This will open the Paradigm Session details.

3. Go to the Appointments section, 1 click the New button. 2 This will add a new appointment in the space below.3 On the right side of the Appointments section, select the No repeating option and set the time and date. 4 Manage your resources as necessary and as required. Click the Save button to add the changes to your event/session.

Take note of how in the Course Plan that one-off seminar at the end of the semester event will look like with the Monday and Wednesday repeating lectures:

 

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Delete Appointment

Delete via the Edit option or under the Paradigm Session details: Appointments section

1. Right-click on the Paradigm Session where the appointment that you want to delete is under or directly on the Appointment Session that you want to delete, click the Edit option. This will open the Paradigm Session details.

2. Go to the Appointments section, 1 Make sure that the Appointment to be deleted is currently highlighted/selected, and then 2 click the Delete button. Click the Save button to save the changes to your event/session.

 

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Delete via the Delete Appointment option

  1. Right-click directly on the Paradigm Appointment Session that you want to delete, click the Delete Appointment option.

2. Select the required delete button based on the descriptions below:

  • If you have selected the main Paradigm Session or Event and clicked the Delete Appointment option, the options to delete are the same as below except for the 2nd option series. The main Paradigm Session or Event will make the 1st Appointment as the series to be deleted.

  • If you are deleting a repeating appointment, you will be prompted with three options on what to delete:

Delete Option

Brief Description

Delete Option

Brief Description

1 Event

this will delete the entire Paradigm Session/Event and all the appointments under it

2 Series: [Day and Time]

this is the suggested way to delete the whole series of the appointment. If you will choose this option, it will only delete the appointment selected but not the whole Paradigm Session.

3 1x appointment on dd/mm/yy

this will delete only the specified appointment date. If selected, the Paradigm Session/Event and all the other appointment dates will remain except for the one specified in the button.

 

  • If you are deleting a one-off event/appointment, you will only be prompted with these two delete buttons(1 and 3 in the table above).

 

 

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Free Appointment

This will help you manage your resources by checking when your resources are being utilised.

How to use the Free Appointment option when creating new Paradigm Session/Event/Appointments

1. After you created your Paradigm Session/Event/Appointments – if you have an issue with the availability of the resources, click the free appointment>> button under the Appointments section.

2. On the right side of that section, adjust the day and time, and;

3. Observe the Allocations section below, all the resources which are being utilised for that specific day and time that you’ve set. Alternatively, you can keep clicking the free appointment>> button and at the same time observe the resources available below. Note that the default change of time when that button is used is every 15 minutes.

 

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Adding Exceptions

Convert to Single Events

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