How to Schedule a Business Advising Appointment *If you do not receive a confirmation email then you have not made an appointment. If you have any problems please call our main office number 865-974-5096. If you need to cancel your appointment or would like to access the documents and notes from your advising appointment, please see the end of these instructions. Log in to MyUTK and go down to the bottom of your main page. In the section Academic Resources you will see a link for Grades First. Click that link and it will take you to your home page in the GradesFirst system. On your home page you will see a button on the right-hand side that says Appointments for Advising or Other Academic Help. Click this button.
On the next page you will be prompted to select a reason for your advising appointment. Please choose Business Advising. Next you will be given another set of options. Choose Business Major Advising. o If you choose Business Major Advising and do not get a location after clicking Next, please click Back and choose To Business. Once you have selected both of these options a Next button will appear for you to move to the next step.
The location dropdown will be automatically filled in. Choose from the advisors listed in the dropdown box or click Next if you don t have a preference. You can choose multiple advisors. However, we strongly encourage you to only choose one name at a time because it can take a long time to load the availabilities for multiple advisors. You can always use the Back button to go back and choose a different advisor if the times don t work for the first one. Once you click Next you will see a grid with that advisor s available appointments. If you don t see any appointment times click the Next Week arrow. Click on the box for the morning or afternoon of the day you are interested in to see the available times. You can use the arrows to move to the next week. Important: Most advisors to not have availabilities more than 2 weeks from the current date.
Once you can see the available appointment times click on the one you want to schedule and then click Next. The details of your appointment will appear on the screen as shown below. If you would like to receive an email reminder click on that button. This email will go to your UTK email address. If you would like to receive a text reminder click on that button as well. If your cell phone number is not in the system you will be prompted to enter it. If it is in the system you will be prompted to confirm it. Please enter the phone number with the area code. We recommend you choose a least one reminder type before saving your appointment.
Once you have entered this information and confirmed that the date and time of the appointment are the ones you would like, click Confirm Appointment to schedule the appointment. *If you do not receive a confirmation email then you have not made an appointment. Cancelling an Appointment Go to your Grades First home page and click on either link to your Calendar at the top. Find your appointment on the calendar and click on it.
Then click Cancel My Attendance at the bottom of the box that appears. Choose a reason, write a comment (optional), and then click Mark as Cancelled.
Appointment Notes and Documents Go to your Grades First home page and click on Reports link at the top. The notes your advisor made during your appointment will be under the Advisor Reports section. To see the complete note just hover your cursor above the information in the summary column. The academic and degree plans that were created as part of your appointment will be under the Notes About Student section. The file names in the Attachments column are links that you can use to access these document so that you can save or print them.
Important Information Nickname Name in GradesFirst Location in GradesFirst Check In Location Amy Amy Anderson CBA Undergraduate Programs HBB 338 Nayasha Nayasha Farrior CBA Undergraduate Programs HBB 338 Brian Brian Francis CBA Undergraduate Programs HBB 338 Sidi Conny Kazungu CBA Undergraduate Programs HBB 338 Krista Krista Loken CBA Undergraduate Programs HBB 338 Matthew Matthew McCarthy CBA Undergraduate Programs HBB 338 Jake Jacob Roberts CBA Undergraduate Programs HBB 338 Laura Laura Trainer CBA Undergraduate Programs HBB 338 Penny Penelope Beasley ** HBB 342 Betsy Elizabeth Gullett ** HBB 338 Andrew Andrew Seidler ** HBB 342 Mark Mark Willoughby ** HBB 338 Tammi Tammi Brown ** HBB 342 George George Drinnon ** HBB 342 **To schedule an appointment with Penny, please email her at pbeasley@utk.edu. To schedule an appointment with Betsy, please email Brenda Perry at bperry13@utk.edu. To schedule an appointment with Andrew, please email him at aseidler@utk.edu. To schedule an appointment with Mark, please email Ian Barry at ibarry@utk.edu. To schedule an appointment with Tammi or George, please call 865-974-5096.