Meeting Scheduling for Education

Schedule enrollments, admission interviews, plan office hours and choose the best times for the classes. Free for education, with every feature included.

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People at these universities already schedule with 42min

  • UC Berkeley
  • University of Toronto
  • Indiana University
  • Oakland University
  • Nanyang Technological University

Solutions for education

Universities, online schools, K-12, independent tutors

Office hours

Post one link on the syllabus, and several students can share each slot.

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  • Group event type, 30 minutes, 6 seats
  • Out of office for exam weeks

Academic advising

A short form sends each student to the advisor who can help.

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  • Routing form by type of question
  • Round robin across the advising team

Research consultations

Students book their subject librarian and share the topic in advance.

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  • Booking question for the topic
  • Minimum notice of 1 day

Tutoring center

One link per subject shares sessions across the tutors who cover it.

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  • Round robin event type per subject
  • Daily limit per tutor

Defenses and committees

The committee votes on a date, and required members must answer first.

SETUP
  • Roundtable with a required examiner
  • Weekly supervision as a series

Clubs and student unions

Partners vote on a meeting time, and officers share recruitment interviews.

SETUP
  • Roundtable link for partner meetings
  • Group event type for info sessions

Accessible to every student

The pages students use to book, reschedule and cancel a meeting conform to WCAG 2.1 Level AA.

Works with your campus calendar

Connect more than one account, and 42min checks all of them before offering a time.

  • Google Calendar
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Apple iCloud
  • CalDAV
  • Google Meet
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Zoom

Free Calendly alternative for education

What faculty and departments add when they move their scheduling to 42min.

One link for each kind of meeting

Office hours, advising, thesis meetings and admissions interviews each get their own event type with their own rules. Calendly's free plan stops at one event type.

Polls and bookings in one account

The committee poll and the office hours link live side by side, check the same calendars, and send the same reminders. Voters and invitees need no account.

14 languages and every time zone

Set each booking page to English, Chinese, Korean, Arabic or ten other languages; Arabic pages read right to left, for screen readers too. Applicants abroad see every time in their own zone.

Moving from another tool? See how 42min compares with Calendly, Doodle and When2meet.

For your IT office

What to send when someone asks how 42min handles calendars and data.

Calendar access

Google and Microsoft sign-in ask to see and edit your calendar. 42min reads busy times to hide them from booking pages and writes each new booking back. You choose which calendars count for conflicts.

Data protection

TLS 1.2 or higher in transit and AES-256 at rest. Calendar tokens and CalDAV passwords are stored encrypted. A Data Processing Addendum with Standard Contractual Clauses and the full sub-processor list are public.

Privacy

We do not sell personal information, share it for advertising, or use it to train AI models without consent. Students do not need an account to book.

Roles and offboarding

Admins manage the organization, managers see only their own groups, and users run their own calendars. Deactivating a departing colleague switches off their booking links at once.

Accessibility

The pages students use to book, reschedule and cancel a meeting conform to WCAG 2.1 Level AA, the standard the ADA Title II rule adopts, for event types without payment. A person checked them with NVDA, VoiceOver, the keyboard alone, 400% zoom and a Windows contrast theme, in English and Arabic. Our accessibility statement and conformance report, based on VPAT® 2.5Rev, are published.

Questions from a security or procurement review go to support, and a person answers them.

Education FAQ

Yes. 42min is free for education, with every feature included. There is no trial to run out and no card to enter, and a department can add as many colleagues as it needs.

Set up office hours this afternoon

Connect your calendar, copy a setup from this page, and post the link. Your colleagues can join the same organization whenever they are ready.

No credit card · Free plan