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Dear Keith I'd be interested in finding out more about your package as well. my email is [log in to unmask] Heather Griffiths ________________________________ From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. on behalf of A Velarde Sent: Thu 25/01/2007 11:11 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Scheduling of support staff/NMH At Kent, we created a program that can do this automatically linking the student data system (i.e. no need of imputing student details, courses, etc twice). After 3 years of long hours of cross departmental work, the system will be ready in the following months. Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bleasdale, Jo" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2007 10:44 AM Subject: Re: Scheduling of support staff/NMH Dear Keith Could you forward me the details as we currently are manually allocating the support workers! Thanks Jo -----Original Message----- From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Bowman-Burns, Lynn Sent: 25 January 2007 10:23 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Scheduling of support staff/NMH Dear Keith Your package sounds excellent and I would be very interested in looking at how it works and trying it out. Please could you sent me the login details ([log in to unmask]). Is it able to factor in subject specialisms of notetakers too? Lynn Lynn Bowman-Burns Disability Adviser Student Support Office University of Essex Tel: (01206) 873444 Email: [log in to unmask] We value your feedback: http://www2.essex.ac.uk/stdsup/news/survey.shtm Please note that this e-mail may contain sensitive personal data as defined by the Data Protection Act 1998. The Act defines sensitive data as that relating to an individual's physical or mental health, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, Trade Union activities, sexual life, or details of any criminal offences, where the individual can be identified. It is likely that any such information has been provided in confidence. Please be aware that the University is obliged to ensure that the information is held securely and only disclosed within the University to those that need it in order to carry out their duties; and that the individual concerned is at least aware should the information need to be disclosed to an individual or organisation outside the University -----Original Message----- From: Discussion list for disabled students and their support staff. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Keith Bremer Sent: 24 January 2007 22:21 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Scheduling of support staff/NMH Sheenagh, Pauline, I must admit that I was surprised when I discovered that most people did this by hand - it's the kind of job for which a computer is ideal. So I've written a package designed to provide basic student information along with its more important function of assisting with note taker allocation. I'm interested in whether people are willing to try it out. Once set up with University details (faculties, departments, courses, etc) and the details of note takers' availabilty and students' timetables, the system tries to match note taker availability with student timetable needs. It presents you with a graphical representation of the timetable & availability and you can either allocate individual sessions, all matched sessions or even allow the system to allocate semi-automatically. I've attached a screenshot of the critical part - you just click on the coloured timetable/availability rectangles to allocate/edit/etc.... A major feature is that matching is done on a best-fit basis, so the top selections for allocation are those that match most timetable slots for any given student. The system also provides for printing out allocation schedules for both the student and the note taker. The software will be free - using the GPL (General Public License - see http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html). I'm still working on documentation and online help, but if you feel brave you can try out a demo that I have running on my wife's website at http://www.educadus.co.uk/nta/index.php. If you want to try it out email me and I'll send you the login details (I'm reluctant to publish them here in case some rascal tries to kill the server with a DOS attack). Best Regards, Keith Bremer.