TargetX Events and Appointment Scheduler
Sample Training Objectives
Event Management
- Explain the difference between Org Events and Contact Schedule Items
- Create a new event
- Institution-Specific/Event-specific nuances (payments, waiting lists, etc)
- Describe how to manage registrations for an event
- Registration, Check-in, Cancellation, Updating guest count/custom questions
Appointment Scheduler
- Describe the student-facing experience in Appointment Scheduler
- Create new appointment availability
- Including exceptions, locations, reasons
- Explain how to manage registrations for an appointment
- Attended vs. Canceled
Training Outline Example
Approximately 2 hours
Event Management (60 minutes)
- Registrant Experience
- Public Events Site
- Registration, Confirmation
- Cancellation
- App Dashboard/Portal Review (if using)
- Events in the CRM
- Terminology
- Data Architecture
- Event Lifecycle
- Event Planning and Creation (incl. exercises)
- Registering Contacts for Events
- Checking in your Registrants
Appointment Scheduler (60 minutes)
- Registrant Experience
- How students register
- Registration, Confirmation
- Cancellation
- Staff Experience
- Setting your Profile
- Specifying Availability
- Optional: Calendar Integration
- Managing Appointments (incl. exercises)
- Registration
- Cancellation
- Notifications
Training Activity Examples
Event Management
- Create a list of events:
- Happening this week, last week, and next week
- All events of a specific type, category or with a specific keyword
- Event Preferences Jeopardy
- Event Creation Exercise
- Provide specs, users create events based on specs
- Role Playing:
- Pretend to be a student and register or check-in using a QR code
- Student calls and asks you to register them for the event
- On event day someone shows up with double their stated guests. What do you do?
- On event day there is a walk-in. How do you handle them?
Appointment Scheduler
- Create your profile and set your availability and minimum lead time
- Role Playing:
- Pretend to be a student and create an appointment with yourself in the next 5 minutes
- Start and include notes for the meeting
Supplemental Materials
Contains reference material from Pathways in addition to supplemental resources designed to assist in creating and delivering your events training.
- Creating a Visualforce tab for Events Settings
- Event Planning Sheet
- Event Setup Guide
- Merge Fields in Event Confirmation Emails
- Additional Help Center Articles:
- Appointment Scheduler Overview
- Article to review high-level information on appointment scheduler, including implementation steps, configuration, best practices and communication.
- Zoom Meetings with Appointment Scheduler
- Calendar Integration
- Option for you to reference if you choose to implement calendar sync
- Google Calendar (Trailhead for Google)
- Outlook (Trailhead for Outlook)