By default, if you have the Schedule tool in your site before you create a meeting in the Sign-up tool, the meeting will be added to the Schedule.  See How do I create a meeting? for more information on this default option.

If you create a meeting without the Schedule tool on the site, but add the Schedule tool later, you can edit the meeting to add it to the Schedule.  Below are instructions on how to edit an existing meeting to add it.

The Export option provides a spreadsheet containing information about a set of meetings or a single meeting, including the list of those who have signed up.

Choosing to Export a set of meetings generates a .xls file that can be opened in Excel or a similar spreadsheet application to show the following sheets:

• Attendees’ Schedules (available to instructors or site administrators only): A sheet with columns that show information about the attendees and events, including the names of attendees, appointment times, number of attendees in a given time slot, and duration of each appointment in minutes.
• Events Overview: A list of all meetings selected as they appear in the Meetings page.
• A sheet with the Title of each meeting, which includes the meeting details, list of participants, and any comments that participants entered when they signed up.
• An Attendance chart (available to instructors or site administrators only), if you have taken attendance for an event.

Creation of the Sign-up tool was motivated by requests from faculty who wanted to replace the "sign up sheets on the door" with an online alternative. Faculty needed a system that would allow students to sign up for office hours, meetings, review sessions and other events in one convenient place. This tool can also be used in collaboration sites to create meetings for the participants.

Various scheduling, participation, recurrence, and notification arrangements can be made.  An instructor can assign participants to timeslots or allow them to select their own choices.  If a timeslot is full, the instructor can allow participants to add themselves to a wait list, which automatically promotes a participant in the list when a slot becomes available and sends an email notification to the new participant.  The Sign-up tool gives instructors and site administrators the ability to set up meetings which are visible only to specific rosters or groups.

Note: For instructions on how to add this or any other tool to your site, see How do I add tools to my site?