Using the platform

Availability

This page describes availability in the student workspace only. Availability is how you tell your department when you can work and what you prefer for a given year and term or break. Department administrators use your submission when they build the schedule.

What you submit

In the availability flow you can enter your preferences, including:

• Preferred hours per week. How many hours you aim to work in the period.
• Per shift. How many consecutive hours you aim to work per shift.
• Preferred desk. Which desk or station you prefer to work at. This is not always guaranteed as it is subject to your seniority and the department's needs.

You may also mark time slot choices (such as first and second choice blocks) where your department uses that model.

Changing availability until the deadline

You can update your availability any time before the deadline for submitting shifts (your department sets this date per period). Open edit, adjust your preferences, and save. After the deadline passes, the app will lock editing so planners can finalize schedules. If you still need a change, contact your department administrator.

After the deadline, assignments

Once submissions close, administrators assign shifts in the admin workspace using availability and department needs. Assignment is not done on this student screen; see Admin workspace for how departments run that side of the product.

After assignments are in place, you will be able to see your assigned desks or stations (and related shift details) in the student app for that period. Your final placements appear once scheduling is complete, not at the moment you save availability.

Viewing your submission

Below the form, tables list your submitted slots for the selected period, broken out by term or break logic so you can confirm what was recorded before the deadline.