Classroom Scheduling Software: How To Build Own

Written by stevenn.hansen | Published 2017/05/24
Tech Story Tags: productivity | machine-learning | scheduling-software | schedule | build-your-own

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Enjoy The Ease With A Classroom Scheduling Software

Tired with the manual preparation of timetables and doing modifications time to time? If you are an educator, then you are very well aware of this system. Thankfully, with the advent of technologies, and with the introduction of classroom scheduling software, management became very easy. With its help one can very well schedule timetable very effectively and efficiently, thus providing great benefits to the student as well as to the institutions.

How To Create?

Creating software is pretty easy. To develop a classroom scheduling system, you just need to contact a developer to do the work for you. However, Python is a very great example of programming language to code in and can easily make a classroom scheduling system in just a few hours. Since it has an open source license, this feature makes it very user-friendly and perfect for commercial use and can be developed at a low cost too.

What Makes This Software A Great Tool?

In universities, where there is a need to create various course patterns, classroom programs, and even academic reports, doing it manually is a very daunting task. So, taking help of the technology not only provides relief but also help in managing the schedules of the students in an economic and simple way. Let us see how it helps

  1. Eliminate Paper-Based Process: Manually preparing involves plenty of paper works which is very tedious and at the same time can even lead to some form of mistakes during entry. As a result of this, it can affect the productivity of the institution. College course scheduling software can help you in this matter.
  2. Intuitive And User-Friendly: Course scheduling software is very easy to use and as such no technical knowledge is required to operate it.
  3. Automatic Classroom Scheduling: The uses of software make a classroom scheduling system very easy. Without much hassle, one can easily create timetables for each class and subjects.
  4. Generate Multiple Timetables: Apart from creating multiple timetables at the same time, the software also helps in managing the different timetable databases along with customizable notifications and alerts.
  5. Customization And Flexibility: This software can be easily customized as and when required, thereby any modification regarding the time table or course structure can be easily updated.
  6. Secure: With role-based permissions, it provides restricted access to users, thereby protecting information very strictly and confidentially.
  7. Easy Integration: With its help, one can easily send email notifications, SMS alerts and even reminders regarding any change.
  8. Localized support: The software’s are designed to offer multilingual support, which ensures a fast and smooth process.

So, in short, it can be concluded that using these software’s can effectively help in improving efficiency at the same time reducing cost. So, what needs to be done now is build a classroom scheduling system and very conveniently carry out the work process.

Features

The software’s are loaded with features which make the entire process very easy. Let us take a look at these features.

  1. Quick And Easy Scheduling: One can easily add, edit, relocate and move events simply with a mouse click. With quick resource relocation, it saves your time and makes updating the events very easy.
  2. Workload Schedule: This software can help you in scheduling multiple group resources in one single frame. So you can track any form of activities or simply plan your staffs, clients, equipment, tasks and records.
  3. Unlimited Event And Task History: Anytime you want to view reports, you can always find it there. Any activity of your staff or client if a plan is also available.
  4. Integrate: With the help of the software you can receive reminders, updates_, and alerts and if required you can also schedule with any other software or services that you have used before._
  5. Reports And Data: One can easily find statistical information and get reports on any of the resources or events.
  6. Access From Anywhere: Some of the desktop software’s allows access to the web and even in mobile. That helps in viewing in other tools also.

Advantages

The complete solution comes in a package and anybody can opt for this to make things better and fast at the same time. The software’s provide you with so many advantages, which gives an array of options for use in use schools, colleges, and universities. Its various advantages and uses are mentioned below.

  • Automated Timetable: To automatically create time table of the students, the use of software makes the process very smooth. An automated timetable helps the school with a real life view of the classroom, courses, and faculties.
  • Managing Student’s Waitlist: The names of the waitlisted students are automatically registered and the students are easily notified via different online modes such as emails or texts.
  • Manage Substitutions: Automatically reports can be generated and in the case of any absence, substitutions of the faculties absent or present, both can be managed.
  • Locking Options: With this process, institutions can lock the timetable during different periods like ongoing registration for an allotted and fixed period of time.
  • Allocate Students And Classes: Scheduling software helps in allocating students to different schedules based on course selection. At the same time, it also auto-assign classrooms, course, and instructors for different periods.
  • Mobile Scheduling: With the help of the scheduling software, one can also store all the examination timetable and schedules and the students and staffs can browse through the information on Android and iPhone.
  • User-Friendly Interface: The hybrid, centralized and distributed strategies helps in properly scheduling the information. The software has an intuitive and user-friendly interface for effectively managing college and school timetable or course scheduling system.
  • Easy Work Allotment: It effectively manages the complete course system and helps in minimizing student’s course conflict. Even while handling complex timetables, there is zero chance of any form of error.
  • Simple And Economical: With multi-user access to data, it avoids delay and do not give any scope for confusion, making it simple and easy to use.

Published by HackerNoon on 2017/05/24