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MyLaw Help

This guide is designed to provide help using MyLaw to the UCLA School of Law community. If you need additional assistance, please email: mylaw@law.ucla.edu.
URL: https://libguides.law.ucla.edu/mylawhelp

General Information

In MyLaw, you have the option of posting office hours online and allowing students to make an appointment within the office hours time frame.  Office hours may be set up as "General Hours" for the term.  Alternatively, they may be set up as office hours for a specific course.  If you prefer not to use the reservation system, you may still post your hours of availability on MyLaw.  The office hours that you select will be linked on your course pages. Note: All office hours will be cleared at the end of each semester and will need to be created at the beginning of each term.

Creating or Editing Office Hours

Adding New Office Hours

There are two ways you can add new office hours.  If you are on your course page, click on "View Office Hours" under your instructor information.  Alternatively, if you are anywhere in MyLaw, click on "Appointments & Reservations" from the top banner and select "View/Manage My Office Hours".

Faculty will see:

Staff will see:

The default view is for your office hours.  If you are a faculty assistant, you won't see any office hours and will have to choose "All Instructor Hours" and then select a specific professor.

Click on "Add New Entry" at the top left of the screen  and then fill in the hours form.

There are three types of office hours:

  • General Office - this option allows you to generally put in days/times when you are available and will allow students to schedule appointments with you during those set time parameters.
  • By Course - if you select this option, you will see a list of the courses you are teaching for the term.  Select a specific course and enter the days/times you are available for office hours for that course.  This process may be repeated for each course you are teaching during the term.  Using this option also allows students to schedule appointments with you during the appointed office hours.
  • General Availability - this option allows you to enter text into a Description Field to communicate your availability to students.  This option does not allow students to schedule appointments with you online.

Editing Office Hours

Once you have created office hours in MyLaw, each time you access the office hours page, you will see a list of the hours you have set up.  To edit a set of office house, click on "Edit Hours" to the right of the hours listing.  Make the appropriate changes and click "Save"

To add an additional entry, click on "Add New Entry", select the type of office hours you would like to add and fill in the remaining form.

Managing Online Reservations

Managing New Reservations

When students make an online reservation during your office hours, you will receive an email with the details of their reservation (date, time, subject for the appointment if included and the students name and email address).  You will also see this information on your MyLaw home page under "My Reminders".

If you use an online calendar, there is a link to export the appointment to your online calendar. To view details about the appointment, click on the title "Appointment with Student" from your home page and this will take you detailed information about the reservation.

Cancelling Existing Reservations

If you need to cancel a reservation, this can be done directly through the system in MyLaw.  Go to the scheduled appointment (through the link in My Reminders or through "Appointments and Reservations").  Retrieve the reservation that should be cancelled by clicking on the reservation from My Reminders on your home page.  Delete the reservation.  This will automatically send the student an email from MyLaw indicating that you had to cancel the meeting.  Additionally, you may reschedule a meeting on behalf of the student by deleting an existing reservation and inputting a new reservation on behalf of that student.