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Waiting Lines

In AccuCampus you to create “Wait-lines” for Locations, specific Services at a Location, specific Courses at a Location, and assign specific staff members at a Location. Additionally, those Wait-lines can be configured as “virtual,” which means that students can add themselves to a waiting line via the mobile App rather than sign in at the Location itself; this allows students to better manage their time and centers better manage their space. Before waiting lines can be created, you must first build locations, services, courses, and sign-in stations.

If a location does not have a waiting line associated with it, then users sign-in/out automatically

You can use Rules to create notifications for your waiting lines. This could include messages for virtual waiting lines providing an estimated wait time and Information when the Center is ready for the Student.

See the Rules module at Advanced Options–>Settings–>Rules

Create Line

Name - This is a unique name for the “Waiting Line.” The Name should include the Location or Center where the sessions will take place.

For example: “Tutoring Center Waiting-Line”

User is unknown - Use this option if you do not know who the Student was, but you need to create a Session Log (for headcount purposes).

Location - This is the Location you want this Waiting Line to be associated with.

Description - This is an optional field to add a “Description” or “Notes” about this “Waiting Line.”

Active - This option marks the Waiting Line as Active(checked) or Inactive(unchecked).

Tracking Information

You can set this line to have default values for Service, event, or staff member. Then, whenever attendees sign in, they move to the corresponding line based on what they select. This way, you can have multiple waiting lines at the same time in the exact location. If you want to have a single line in the specified location, leave the text fields empty.

Service - Use this option to set a default Service.

Course - Use this option to set a default Course.

Staff - Use this option to set a default Staff.

If you do not use default values, the User must select a value for that specific topic.



Remote_Access

  • Enable joining using the App - Use this option to enable/disable joining the Waiting-Line via the APP. As soon as you enable this option, a new set of 5 options will be shown; see below:

  1. Display Name - Select this option to name the Waiting list in the App.
  2. When joined, message- Select this option to show a message in the APP; by default, it will show the User Position and Wait time.
  • *When in position- Set a position number so that the system will trigger a message when the User reaches this number. - Message- This is the Message that the system will show when the User reached the position number shown above. - When signed-in, message- Set a custom message to show when the user signs in; by default, the system will show, “A staff member is waiting for you. Please come in.”: * SAVE - This option saves the Information. * CANCEL** - This option quits the page without saving.

see more Information here: https://desk.zoho.com/portal/engineerica/en/kb/articles/accucampus-how-to-join-a-waiting-line-from-the-app

For students to be able to Sign-in to “Waiting Lines” by themselves, they should have the proper permissions; please go to the Users “Role configuration,” select the role and make sure these features (“Waiting Line” (remote access)) is enabled.



How to manage a "Waiting-Line"

Click on the “Manage” button to the right of the “Waiting Line” name:

Here you can see who is waiting in the queue, who is already, and what staff is in the Center.



3.1-To see details from each entry in the waiting-queue click “View Details” to the right of the student name:
From the next screen, you can see the details and also “Sign-in” the Student, “Hide” the Student from the list or remove the Student altogether .

3.2-To remove the Student from the queue, click the option: “Remove” to the right of the student name:
This is useful if the Student is in line by mistake or if the Student changed his mind and did not want to stay in line waiting.

A confirmation message should appear; click OK to remove the student:

3.2 To Sign-in a Student to a session, click on “Sign-in” to the right of the student name, then select a Tutor that can help the student, or if you are using Zoom, you can choose the virtual meeting option and connect to your Zoom account to assist the student:

Now, as you can see, the Student moved from the “Waiting” section to the Students @ Center section:


3.3- To sign out, a student, please click the “Sign-Out” button to the right of the student name:


A confirmation message should appear; click “OK” to confirm:


Now the student name should disappear from the Waiting-Line (because the Student signed out):

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