 Hello everybody, this is Monica Wahee, Library College lecturer, and I'm here with a short little video about how to fill out a doodle poll. Now the reason I made this video is because I've been organizing a lot of online meetings with you guys, and I realize that when I send out the doodle poll email, you don't always know what to do. So I made this little video and at the end of this video you should be able to click on an emailed invitation to doodle, update your availability in the doodle poll, and also you should be able to list two reasons why it is necessary that you indicate your availability, yes or no, for all the times offered, not just your preferred time. If this sounds a little confusing, you'll understand in a moment when I demonstrate. Hi everybody, now here you can see my email, but pretend I'm not the lecturer, pretend I'm a student, and I actually just received a doodle poll. Here it is for office hours. Okay, so if you were a student and you had this email address and you clicked on this, this is what it would look like. Here's the instructor sending you the email and saying, oh look, hi class, please fill in the doodle poll and I'll schedule our online study session. Okay, so this is an example of an email you might get from me if I set up a doodle poll. Now, what I'm going to do is click on participate now. Okay, as you can see, it has brought me online to this page, right? And what will happen to you is that if you don't have an account, I checked it out, they don't make you sign up for an account you can with Facebook or with Google, but you don't have to sign up for an account just to fill out the poll. So you'll see that one person has already filled out the poll. Actually, it's not a real person, it was just me. But I put my friend's name, her name is Reka. So I pretended Reka fell out the poll. So what did Reka say? Well, you'll see on the poll, we were only given a few times and that's because the instructor is not always free. So the instructor said that on Tuesday the first, she was available at 9am, noon, one and 3pm. On Wednesday, the second at 11am and 1pm. And on Thursday, the third at nine, one and two. And so Reka was another person in the class, and she theoretically clicked on her participate now. And she was only available at nine, and one and three on Tuesday, maybe she was going to lunch with somebody. Over here on Wednesday, she was only available at one. And over here on Thursday, she was only available at two. So it can easily be seen. Now, I'm going to pretend I'm another student in the class. And so we'll just pretend that's Viveka. Okay, so let's say that Viveka is another person in this class. And this is when Viveka is free. Now, let's say Viveka tends to be pretty free on Tuesdays. But she's not free at all on Wednesdays. And then she's free all the time on Thursdays, right? Then after Viveka fills us out, we would save it, right? And this is what Viveka will see. I pretended I was Viveka. But in any case, I don't know why I just like that name Viveka. But what the reason it is necessary to actually fill out all of the poll, even if you're not really free, some of it, I mean, you have to check off all the times are free, not just the one you like. Okay. And the reason is the goal of the instructor is to get everybody together when they're free. But if nobody's free at the same time, at least the instructor can know when the students actually are free. So she or he can actually schedule a meeting individually. So in conclusion, when you receive an email invitation to a doodle poll, please respond in a timely manner because somebody's trying to schedule a meeting with you and they'd like to have your itinerary as quickly as possible. And also please complete it comprehensively. Don't just pick out the days that or the times that you are your favorites, really honestly put down all the times you're available. And then that way, the person who's scheduling it can have all the information they need to try and accommodate you. And if in the unfortunate circumstance, if you think you can't check off any of the times, like you're not free at all, or there's some sort of extenuating circumstances, please communicate with the organizer. If it's me, then I'm the lecturer. So please contact me if you can't fill out your doodle poll because you're having a huge emergency, because I understand huge emergencies just talk to me. Well, thank you very much for watching this and go fill out your doodle poll.