PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT: iAdvise News and Tips – Remember to update your profile for the new term!
The iAdvise Project Team has news and a tip for you:
Review Your Profile - New students were introduced to iAdvise through online orientation and may be looking for you on iAdvise. Please provide them the best way to reach you and learn about how you can help them by reviewing your profile to ensure that it informs them how to reach you, whether you are doing drop-in advising, or the best way to get questions answered. There's also a new item available to you - SHARE LINKS! See more...
Review Your Availability Settings - If you want your calendar to be available for appointments, don't forget to check to make sure your Office Hours have been created and enabled. If you are doing drop-in hours, you may add those and they will display in your profile or please ensure that there are directions in your General Overview about how to get to your drop-in hours.
Check your Auto Response Settings - If you are using an auto reply for the first few weeks of class, please ensure that it is not set to decline calendar invitations. This issue arises if you set your auto-reply using Outlook 365 and select the checkbox to auto-decline calendar invitations in the advanced settings. If you use a desktop Outlook client, you will not see this option.
Share Links for Your Email Signature - iAdvise has links available for you to send students directly to your calendar to make appointments. You will find that link in your Institutional Profile and you can use it in your email signature. It is VERY IMPORTANT to remember that students' first visit to iAdvise needs to be through the my.UIC portal so that they can be provided all of the information they need in the Advising Tab. If you decide to use SHARE LINKS, please use two links in your signature, here is an example:
*LINE 1: New to iAdvise? Log in to get to my schedule at my.UIC.edu and visit the Advising Tab. Click on iAdvise and you will go to your Success Network to make your appointment!
*LINE 2: Have you used iAdvise before? Use this link to go directly to my schedule [Insert Share Link from Institutional Profile]
If you need help from our iAdvise Helpdesk, please email iadvisehelp@uic.edu. iAdvise Web Link - iadvise.uic.edu. OAD hosts iAdvise Open Hours EVERY WEEK and the hours are posted there - just come by and ask any question you want or give us a call! No previously scheduled time needed.