How to Schedule a 30-minute Advising Appointment on Penji

Learn how to easily book a 30-minute one-on-one session with your College Advisor through the Penji platform. This guide walks you through the selection process and appointment finalization to ensure you get the academic support you need.

Kevin Estoque
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Open your Penji app or navigate to Penji on the web <https://web.penjiapp.com/schools/tulane> Make sure you are on the Student Homepage! If not, click the "Student Homepage" button. On the home page, you will see a host of options to choose from including your College Advisors, and options to book with the ALTC, The Writing Center and CAIDS.

Appointment Type

To book a 30-minute meeting with your College Advisor, click "Schedule a 30-minute 1-on-1 appointment (College Advisor, Transfer Credit, or Pre-Professional)" PLEASE NOTE that Transfer Credit and Pre-Professional meetings are no shorter than 30 minutes.

Next choose, what type of 30-minute meeting you would like. To meet with your College Advisor, click "Meet with \[YOUR ADVISOR NAME\] - Your College Advisor" Please note that you can also book a 30-minute meeting with a Pre-Professional Advisor and the transfer Credit Specialist from this same screen.

Time and Advisor

You will then see all the time blocks in which the advisor is available. PLEASE NOTE: you can view available appointment blocks for two weeks at a time. Click the next-week arrow (to the right of the date) if no appointments show in the first week.

Note the time you have selected. If correct, click "Select." If not, choose a better time.

Here, you should only see the name of the College Advisor assigned to you. Choose your advisor.

Please note any information displayed here. Click Select to choose your advisor.

Meeting Details

Next, you will specify where you would like to meet with your advisor. Choose "Mussafer Hall, Building #9 - 2nd or 3rd Floor Waiting Room-Specified Upon Check-In" to have an in-person meeting. Choose "Zoom Meeting - Online" to have a remote meeting via Zoom video conferencing system. PLEASE NOTE: if only one option shows up, that is the only option available for the time you have chosen. Some advisors only offer one location for a given time block. If this does not satisfy your needs, click the arrow back to choose a different time block.

Then, state what you would like to discuss in the meeting agenda field. Completing this step will help your advisor adequately prepare for your meeting.

Click "Next"

Confirmation: Meeting Overview

Review this summary of all your choices. If everything looks good, click "Complete" If any adjustments are needed, click the left arrow in the upper-left of the screen to make changes.

Click "Create"

And that's it! You will receive an Outlook invite email with the Zoom link and the same information shown on the Overview screen. Also, you will see your booked appointments in your Penji home screen. [Click to return to the NTC College Advising website.](https://advising.tulane.edu/penjihelp)