Transform Your Teaching Impact with One-on-One Appointments Between Instructors and Students

Most creators offer multiple forms of support and communicate with students in various ways. But as they say, there’s nothing as good as a guided, personalized session!

That’s why one-on-one appointments between instructors and students could be the dealbreaker. By meeting your students directly, you’ll not only be able to offer personalized guidance and counseling but also ensure your students have a deeper connection with instructors and keep them coming back!

FluentBooking and Tutor LMS have the perfect setup for this. Combining these tools together, you can easily start allowing students to meet instructors for personalized interactions and better learning!

But before getting started, let’s look at other benefits of integrating appointments into your eLearning platform.

Why Offer One-on-One Appointments in Your eLearning Platform?

Picture a student finally meeting his favorite creator online or offline. This opens a lot of possibilities, right?

One-on-one appointments between instructors and students involve many advantages including:

• Personalized, convenient, and rapid learning through video conferencing tools or in-person
• Opportunity to offer personalized guidance and help students overcome specific challenges
• Building trust and loyalty and fostering deeper relationships between instructors and students.
• Allowing instructors to run regular check-ins, prepare tailored sessions, etc.
• Giving instructors more insights to keep the students coming back, ensuring better student retention, and maximizing eLearning revenue!

So if you want to stand out in the rapidly expanding eLearning market, keep the existing students coming back, and attract more students, one-on-one appointments are the way to go!

Ready to offer one-on-one appointments between instructors and students?

Let’s begin!

How to Set Up a One-on-One Appointment Booking System for Tutor LMS?

FluentBooking is the simplest appointment booking plugin for creating sleek appointment calendars. This plugin provides great flexibility for appointments between instructors and students.

While there’s no direct integration between FluentBooking and Tutor LMS at this moment, the team may also develop a powerful integration in the future. But for now, we’ll show you how you can create booking calendars and share your appointment link with students in your courses.

Creating an Appointment Booking Form with FluentBooking

Creating an appointment booking form doesn’t take much work. It starts by installing FluentBooking. This process is as simple as installing any other plugin on WordPress.

Go to Plugins > Add New Plugin and look up FluentBooking on the WordPress repository. Then install and activate it.

Once installed, FluentBooking will take you through its guided availability management calendar setup. As an instructor, you want to set up your availability calendar by choosing a meeting type and location here.

FluentBooking offers several meeting options such as one-on-one meetings, group meetings, round-robin meetings, etc. It’s also possible to set up both offline and online meetings via Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, etc.

Of course, you don’t want to meet at an inconvenient time when you’re using an appointment booking plugin. So you should also specify exactly when you’ll be available to meet your students.

Once you’ve completed the initial setup, you can further customize your calendar as you wish.

Customizing the Appointment Calendar

FluentBooking offers a wide range of meeting customization options so you can make the most out of your student appointments.

Below are some of the notable customization options:

• Ability to Create a Questionnaire: You can create a questionnaire to know the exact reason for meeting the students. You can make the most of this by customizing the form with fields like name, email, preferred topics, and meeting type (e.g., consultation, feedback session).

• Ability to Customize Appointment Notifications and Reminders: It’s also possible to create SMS and email notifications such as confirmation notifications, reminders, & cancellation notices. These will help you stay informed about upcoming appointments and cancellations and avoid no-shows.

• Ability to Offer Paid Lessons: If you want to charge your students for personalized consultation, it’s also possible to create paid appointments via Stripe, Paypal, and WooCommerce payment gateways (Pro).
• Automation Capabilities: FluentCRM also integrates with your calendars, CRM tools, forms, and many other tools to keep everything synced so that you can automate various appointment and eLearning tasks.

Once you’re done with all the necessary customizations, click Save Settings to create your appointment calendar.

Finally, click the Share button to get your appointment calendar shortcode. 

Alternatively, you can also get a calendar landing page URL or add the calendar directly to your site!

Adding an Appointment Form to the Tutor LMS Lesson Page

After the customizations comes the part where you’d want to start offering appointment slots to your students. For that, simply copy the shortcode and open any of your lessons. Then, paste the shortcode and Save the lesson.

That’s it! Now whenever your students take the lesson, they can book an appointment with you. They can reserve an available timeslot and start learning from you directly!

Start Meeting Your Students!

Honestly, instructor-student appointments go way beyond the meeting itself. It creates a sense of personal touch like nothing else and develops a relationship that may even translate into more word-of-mouth promotions.

With FluentBooking, you can give your Tutor LMS students an experience that they usually crave. If you want to go even further, you can try the following:

• You can Include appointment links in course materials or announcements so that students can easily book appointments
• If you use FluentCRM or similar automation tools, you can use Tutor LMS course completion triggers to offer one-on-one sessions as rewards.
• And, of course, you can highlight one-on-one options in course marketing materials to attract prospective students.

Overall, the Tutor LMS-FluentBooking combination comes with a lot of perks. Seeing the potential, the FluentBooking team also aims to integrate their plugin more tightly with Tutor LMS. In the meantime, we encourage you to take the first step by setting up an appointment system and linking it to your Tutor LMS instructor page!