Features
Usability
· PC and Web based Clients
· Drag and drop timetabling editing (Within and between timetable grids)
· Unlimited number if resiurces (staff, rooms etc)
· Seven resource types (Modules, Rooms, Staff, Equipments, Groups, Students and Teams) and seven classification types (Courses, Departments, Event Categories, Faculties, Fixtures, Layouts, and Sites)
· Equipment Tracking
· Staff Team mambership
· Group/Student and Group/Subgroup mambership stucture - to any level
· Dynamic usage charts to quickly identify availability
· SMS communicate with staff and students
· Undo and Redo (up to 100 operations)
· Web access to timetables views and modify (web server supplied). No special browser controls required
· Resources booking for subsets of an event's weeks
· User defined terminology (E.g. change student to pupil)
· Inter site travel times
· Scheduling bank holidays and other global events
· Fixed and preferred resources for modules and groups
· Inventory of fixtures and fittings for each room assists in room selection
· Default and alternative seating layouts and capacities for each room
· Incompatible resource combinations
· Special needs of staff and students accommodated
· Resource and event notes and user defined tags
· Charges for room and equipment use
· Configurable grid axes
· Custom event creation (for unusual durations and start offsets)
· Event granularity of 1 minute
· Descriptive names for weeks and week spans
· Colour coded events (by Category, department and faculty)
· Import directly from timetabler V5 and other software systems
· Import using CSV
· Export using CSV
· Rollover wizard to create next year's timetable based on the current one
· Advisers offer advise on availablity and suitability of rooms, staff and times
· Statistics for resources at a glance
Security
· Comprehensive security with strong encryption
· LDAP support
· Comprehensive user and role based access rights from a global level to that of individual resources. Ability to assign multiple roles per user
· Multi user and network ready. Comprehensive logging of all activities
· Seperate Administrator application
· Administrator can enforce timetable option and preferences for selected user
Printing/Publishing/Reporting
· Comprehensive timetable grid and list printouts
· Adobe Acrobat PDF creation
· Automatic notification of timetable changes using SMS and e-mail
· Automatic update of staff/student calenders (interoperatorbility of Microsoft Exchange Server or Outlook)
· Send timetables or event confirmation by e-mail (in PDF)
· Automatic or manual publication of timetables to intranet or web using html and/or PDF
· Statistical analysis of resource use (including standard room utilization figure)
Clash Checking
· Clash check: Double booked resources, inadequate rooming, inefficient rooming, extensive room layout changes, inadequate fixtures in a room, incompatibilities between resources at the same time, insufficient break and lunch times, insufficient staff free days, insufficient travel time for staff/students or for setting up equipment, missed teaching targets, inadequate staff/student ratio, excessive staff/student ratio, incomplete events.
· Dynamic or retrospective clash checking
· Advisers help resolve clashes
Architecture
· Multi-tier architecture for ease of maintenance and scalability
· Industry standard SQL implementation and published data schema - easily integrate into your own systems
· Software integration plugins for bespoke integration of your MIS or other software systems
· Bespoke reporting available
· COM Library programming interface - create your own applications that read/write timetabler data