Teaching artist scheduling software

Hello everyone,

We are in the process of integrating education into tess, but in the meantime, I need some help with scheduling my TA appointments, which are one classrom period long, and so they have many of them. Do any of you use a third party software for TA scheduling, especially one that might integrate with Tess? I am looking at Front Desk HQ and Aquity software right now and like them. Currently, we use google spreadsheets and email, and it's just so cumbersome. Thank you!

Adrienne Bishop

Edu Coordinator

Opera Philadelphia

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    Hi Adrienne,

    Not sure if this what you're after, but Marty Jones of the Tessitura Network built a heavily customized volunteer management for Guthrie Theater. This customization allows the volunteer to manage their schedule.

    a.       They can sign up for shifts and cancel a shift.

    b.      Only shifts that they are trained for are displayed

    c.       It also prevents them from signing up for a shift where the shift time conflicts with another shift that they are already signed up for.

    He also mentioned that he has been told that Alliance Theatre does volunteer management out of the box using a special mode of sale for the volunteers. The shifts are set up as zones and include a zone for wait list in case the main zone is full.

     

    We have only three workshop educators and only two or three workshops a day, so we use our Outlook calendar to schedule them, which works well for us.

    Hope you had a lovely Christmas break!

     

    Hannah

     

  • The work being done as part of the Education/Outreach Scheduling Roadmap item will likely help address some of this. The goal is to help solve some of these very problems. Stay tuned!

    Patrick Schley
    Academy Services Manager
    First Stage

     

  • Wonderful! This great. Thank you Hannah! I have decided to go with Acuity Scheduling until we get onto Tessitura, just in case anyone is interested. It looks really promising! 

    Adrienne 

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    On Jan 7, 2016, at 12:23 AM, Hannah Schneider <bounce-hannahschneider8848@tessituranetwork.com> wrote:

    Hi Adrienne,

    Not sure if this what you're after, but Marty Jones of the Tessitura Network built a heavily customized volunteer management for Guthrie Theater. This customization allows the volunteer to manage their schedule.

    a.       They can sign up for shifts and cancel a shift.

    b.      Only shifts that they are trained for are displayed

    c.       It also prevents them from signing up for a shift where the shift time conflicts with another shift that they are already signed up for.

    He also mentioned that he has been told that Alliance Theatre does volunteer management out of the box using a special mode of sale for the volunteers. The shifts are set up as zones and include a zone for wait list in case the main zone is full.

     

    We have only three workshop educators and only two or three workshops a day, so we use our Outlook calendar to schedule them, which works well for us.

    Hope you had a lovely Christmas break!

     

    Hannah

     

    From: Adrienne Bishop <bounce-adriennebishop1257@tessituranetwork.com>
    Sent: 12/18/2015 11:52:13 AM

    Hello everyone,

    We are in the process of integrating education into tess, but in the meantime, I need some help with scheduling my TA appointments, which are one classrom period long, and so they have many of them. Do any of you use a third party software for TA scheduling, especially one that might integrate with Tess? I am looking at Front Desk HQ and Aquity software right now and like them. Currently, we use google spreadsheets and email, and it's just so cumbersome. Thank you!

    Adrienne Bishop

    Edu Coordinator

    Opera Philadelphia




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  • Hi Patrick, can you tell me more about the Education/Outreach Scheduling Road map? thanks!!

    Monika

  • Hi Monika –

     

    I highly recommend checking out the recording of the Technology Keynote from TLCC 2016, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjKfd_DJHZQ

    Information about the work being done for v14 with regards to resource scheduling is right at the beginning of the keynote.

     

    If you’d like to learn more about the Roadmap itself, that information can be found at http://www.tessituranetwork.com/network/Products/New%20Technology%20Initiative/Roadmap%20and%20FAQ.aspx.

     

    Best,

     

    Patrick Schley

    Application Support Specialist

    Tessitura Network

     

     

    From: Tessitura Education Forum [mailto:forums-education@tessituranetwork.com] On Behalf Of Monika Jouvert
    Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2016 10:00 AM
    To: Patrick Schley <pschley@tessituranetwork.com>
    Subject: Re: [Tessitura Education Forum] Teaching artist scheduling software

     

    Hi Patrick, can you tell me more about the Education/Outreach Scheduling Road map? thanks!!

    Monika

    From: Patrick Schley <bounce-patrickschley1590@tessituranetwork.com>
    Sent: 1/7/2016 11:33:28 AM

    The work being done as part of the Education/Outreach Scheduling Roadmap item will likely help address some of this. The goal is to help solve some of these very problems. Stay tuned!

    Patrick Schley
    Academy Services Manager
    First Stage

     




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  • Hey Patrick, I'm interested in both the scheduling and education updates you mentioned. How can I keep tabs on when this technology will be rolled out? Thanks! Bryan W. Jones | Director of Operations UAB’s Alys Stephens Center | bwjones@uab.edu UAB | The University of Alabama at Birmingham 205 934 6018 | alysstephens.org


    [edited by: Bryan Jones at 4:26 PM (GMT -6) on 18 Jan 2017]
  • Hi Bryan!

     

    The resource scheduling piece is scheduled to be released with version 14 of Tessitura. The best way to keep apprised of new developments in Tessitura software is by visiting the Technology Roadmap section of the website (http://www.tessituranetwork.com/network/Products/New%20Technology%20Initiative.aspx) or subscribing to the Technology Roadmap forum (http://www.tessituranetwork.com/Community/forums/78.aspx).

     

    Thanks,

     

    Patrick Schley

    Application Support Specialist

    Tessitura Network

     

     

  • Maybe I'm missing it, but I don't see estimated dates of when these updates are expected. Is that information available?
  • I'll second this request about where to sign up for the beta!
  • Where do we sign up for the beta?