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title: "Scheduler Overview"
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# Scheduler Overview

**Scheduler** is the powerful management tool for one-on-one appointments or interviews.

![](https://cdn.us.document360.io/cd8ea7a6-07f3-4846-a554-627ac016d3e3/Images/Documentation/Scheduler.png)

#### 📚 Articles in this series

Follow these articles in sequence to set up a Scheduler operation for your institution.

1. [Creating a Scheduler Template](/v1/docs/creating-a-scheduler-template)
2. [Creating a Scheduler Registration Form](/v1/docs/creating-a-scheduler-registration-form)
3. [External Calendar Integrations](/v1/docs/slate-external-ical-integration)
4. [Adding Availability](/v1/docs/active-scheduler)
5. [Display Availability in a Portal](/v1/docs/display-availability-in-a-portal)
6. [Creating a Scheduler Session](/v1/docs/creating-a-scheduler-session)
7. [Creating a Scheduler Report Form](/v1/docs/scheduler-report-form)
8. [Assigning Users to Scheduler Sessions](/v1/docs/assigning-users-to-scheduler-sessions)

## Events with one registrant

You might notice that Scheduler is quite similar to the Events module.

For example, a Scheduler template, analogous to an event template, likewise includes a registration form, communications, and basic details.

It’s easiest to understand Scheduler by the ways it *differs* from Events:

- Scheduler sessions are equivalent to events, but with a **registration limit of 1.**
- A **report form** can be associated with the Scheduler template, so that feedback can be submitted.
- When more than one Scheduler user has session availability at the same time, generated from the same template, and taking place in the same location, these sessions appear as a **single time slot** to the registrant.

## Outlining your process in Scheduler

Take time to outline your process on paper before getting started within Slate and consider the following:

- **Who conducts the appointments or interviews?** This will help you determine *who should have access* to Scheduler.
- **Who is interviewed?** This will help you *determine the scope of your Scheduler forms*.
- **How are slots scheduled?** Consistent? Variable?

This is also a good opportunity to rethink the current process and move forward with a new Slate-based strategy.

#### Conducting Alumni Interviews?

Scheduler requires that the appointment holders or interviewers are Slate users. If an alumni network conducts interviews as well, use a portal to manage and assign alumni interviewers.

## Next up: Creating a Scheduler template

Just like event templates, **Scheduler templates** save you time and effort by letting you configure components in a central location.

> [!NOTE]
> ➡️ [Creating a Scheduler Template](/v1/docs/creating-a-scheduler-template)