When scheduling an event in MTH, you are asked to name a category. By clicking on EDIT CATEGORIES, you can add categories or edit existing categories.
Categories I have set up are Available Makeup Slot, Open Slot, Makeup Lesson, Workshop, Studio Closed, Guitar Lesson, Piano Lesson, Bass Lesson, Voice Lesson, Studio Business, and Personal Business.
Each of the categories are color coded, making it easy to look at the calendar and spot different events. Students and parents find that the color coding makes it easy to spot makeup times on their web page in MTH. At a glance I can find Open Slots or Available Makeup Slots by looking for the color.
How creative are you with the Category function in MTH? Do you have any other ideas in using this function?
Yes–since we can now set up email reminders for selected categories, I have created special categories for lessons and classes that are makeups or are scheduled at unusual times, and have reminders automatically emailed the day before. It really helps make sure people don’t miss a lesson or class just because they were scheduled at an unusual time. I’m also toying with a new policy that’s more flexible about when someone cancels but less flexible about how many cancellations are permitted–I can do this by coloring the cancellation, say, in red, so I can easily look back to see how many a student has had.