Course Scheduling Overview
Institutions of higher education provide excellent learning opportunities through the judicious delivery of programs and courses. Academic offerings vary based on the history of each institution, their strengths, their role in the community, their mission, and the vision of their leaders. To ensure that students can proceed in a timely fashion towards degree completion, institutions must plan and schedule their course offering very carefully.
Ideally your course schedule will present conflict-free registration options to your students and meet your faculty’s requirements while optimizing the use of your space. During your course scheduling production process you therefore need to consider the requirements of your students and faculty while remaining mindful of your space capacity.
Institutions of higher education have historically approached the production of their course schedule in one of four main processes:
Each of these processes has different associated benefits and the choice of one process over another is primarily based on an institution's culture, space availability, or student registration and progression issues. Indeed, these different processes will generate vastly different result in terms of room utilization as well as student’s ability to access the course they need to progress towards the degree they are seeking in a timely fashion. The processes and their various associated benefits are outlined in the table below. A more detailed description can also be found in the benefits section.
Our course scheduling solution integrates all the resources and requirements associated with the production of your course schedule yet is flexible enough to support your preferred course scheduling production process.
Different modules within our family of applications support specific functions related to your chosen production process and institutional objectives. We invite you to learn about each of these modules and the benefits of the various approaches available to your institution in the sections below:
- Infosilem EnCampus™ - Timetabler
- Infosilem EnCampus™ - Timetabler DCU
- Infosilem EnCampus™ - Assigner
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- Multiple Production Methods
- Departmental Scheduling
- Room Scheduling
- Course Scheduling
- Student-Driven Scheduling
- SIS Integration
