Scheduling students around my everyday activities was quite a chore, as I had to bounce back and forth from my Day Planner to the MTH Calendar when I was scheduling a student or makeup outside of the normal teaching hours. Then I had an IDEA! And it is working great. Music Teacher’s Helper is not just a studio manager, but also a personal manager.
I set my name up in MTH as an adult student and schedule other activities, such as personal and financial business, into the calendar of MTH. I can call up my name in the calendar and name the event that I am doing. Under categories, I created a personal, financial and a business category in different colors. Under location, I added Personal.
I can now enter a reoccurring event, such as MTH invoices sent, into the calendar using the financial category and studio location. Personal events can also be put in, so you won’t schedule a student during the personal event time. If I need a reminder, I can either enter it as an all day event, or give it a time of 12 a.m. for 5 minutes.
Every morning I receive an email from MTH and see the events for the day, including the personal appointments and tasks to do. When the task or appointment is done, I can check it off as reconciled.
I tossed my day planner and schedule all my appointments and reminders on MTH. Anyone interested in buying a used Day Planner?
Great idea! Thanks for sharing!
Would be great to see a screenshot of this if you wouldn’t mind sharing!
Thanks!
Awesome idea!! Why didn’t I think of that. I’m going to have to try this.
I like this idea, but I’d love it if I could sync my MTH calendar with my iphone/pda. Since I don’t have internet access at my studio and I often get calls when I’m not able to login to MTH it would be great to have my updated (since last sync) schedule on my iphone.
I’ve tried exporting and importing, but it doesn’t work..for the iphone anyway. If anyone has some ideas I could try let me know.
Thanks!
Wonderful idea.