Many people provide availability of 30 minutes, or 60 or 90 mins, even though the sessions for most courses are 120 mins. They have to provide a minimum of one 180 minute block, but that's still a tiny amount of availability (<2% of the week) for us to use when scheduling cohorts.
The impact this has on course leads is that every time we want to create cohorts, we have to spend 2-3 hours manually adding the final 20-40% of people into cohorts that don't really work for them, because we don't have enough of their availability. If we had lots of availability from everyone, I expect the cohort scheduling algorithm could place >90% of people into cohorts automatically, and that those cohorts would be at times that work for a greater number of participants.
To fix this, one idea I had is to have a field that states the minimum time slot size when initialising the availability forms, and when people click on a box (e.g. 3pm on Tuesday), the time is automatically that size (e.g. a block from 3-5pm on Tuesday). Then it would be impossible for people to provide only one 180 min slot, plus lots of useless 30 min slots. And maybe we could even state the minimum number of blocks they have to provide, e.g. "5x minimum time blocks of Y duration", so they don't just provide one slot.
OR some other implementation that achieves the goal of being a nice and easy UX for the participants, and providing us with lots of usable time slots for cohort scheduling.
Many people provide availability of 30 minutes, or 60 or 90 mins, even though the sessions for most courses are 120 mins. They have to provide a minimum of one 180 minute block, but that's still a tiny amount of availability (<2% of the week) for us to use when scheduling cohorts.
The impact this has on course leads is that every time we want to create cohorts, we have to spend 2-3 hours manually adding the final 20-40% of people into cohorts that don't really work for them, because we don't have enough of their availability. If we had lots of availability from everyone, I expect the cohort scheduling algorithm could place >90% of people into cohorts automatically, and that those cohorts would be at times that work for a greater number of participants.
To fix this, one idea I had is to have a field that states the minimum time slot size when initialising the availability forms, and when people click on a box (e.g. 3pm on Tuesday), the time is automatically that size (e.g. a block from 3-5pm on Tuesday). Then it would be impossible for people to provide only one 180 min slot, plus lots of useless 30 min slots. And maybe we could even state the minimum number of blocks they have to provide, e.g. "5x minimum time blocks of Y duration", so they don't just provide one slot.
OR some other implementation that achieves the goal of being a nice and easy UX for the participants, and providing us with lots of usable time slots for cohort scheduling.