Timetabler DCU
Streamline your production process
Timetabler DCU is a browser-based Data Collection Utility that establishes a collaborative environment between academic departments and the central scheduling office to streamline your course scheduling production process. With Timetabler DCU you eliminate standard loading sheets and collect course scheduling data at the source to ensure data integrity and enforce scheduling policies.
You also have the ability to better control production timelines by granting access to the Timetabler DCU’s personalized web forms at key points during your production schedule. When departments contribute efficiently to the course scheduling production process, the central scheduling office is able to focus on the creation of the master course schedule as opposed to only processing information.
With Timetabler DCU you can:
- Establish a collaborative scheduling environment
- Support departments in course planning
- Use personalized web forms to collect course scheduling data from academic departments
- Ensure data integrity
- Control production timeline
Support departments with their course planning
Departments can better plan their course offering with the Timetabler DCU by dynamically interacting with the central scheduling database. Departments can create or modify the courses offered, the number of sections, the size of each section, faculty’s assignment, time and space requirements as well as managed cross-listed courses, create or modify course combinations with full conflict-checking validation, and even generate reports. With the Timetabler DCU you give the departments the tool they need to plan their course offerings efficiently while freeing up the central scheduling staff to focus on the task of creating the course schedule.
Ensure data integrity and completeness
Control the interface of the Timetabler DCU and ensure data integrity and completeness by limiting department entry to chosen fields, enforcing completeness by making certain fields required, and ensuring accuracy by configuring acceptable data. Data managed at the department level is securely entered at the source through the intuitive Timetabler DCU, with complete validation, to ensure that your central scheduling staff works with accurate and complete data in the creation of your course schedule.
Control your production timeline and increase efficiencies
You can establish and easily enforce critical production timeline by opening and closing the Timetabler DCU on specific dates of each of your scheduling cycle. With Timetabler DCU you facilitate your departments’ data entry, adopt best business practices by collecting information at the source, control the quality of the data you collect, and limit time-consuming back and forth adjustments caused by inaccurate, late or incomplete loading sheets or the unintentional introduction of conflicts.
