Anne Johnson wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I did a short survey last March about timetabling, and would like to
> follow up on this (at the time, a lot of colleagues were in the
> process of changing what they do e.g. planning to put their timetable
> on the web within the next 12 months, etc.)
>
> Please could you could send responses directly to me
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> by *Friday 2nd March* and I shall collate them and send a summary to
> the list. Thank you.
>
> 1. How do you organise the construction of your teaching timetable?
> (a) Centralised timetabling section [ ]
> (b) Devolved to faculty/dept level [ ]
> (c) Other (please state)
We have a block timetable which is done centrally, then
departments do their own within its framework.
>
> 2. How do you organise your timetabling?
> (a) Timetable constructed from actual student course choices [ ]
> (b) Pre-blocked time slots, *before* students make choices [ ]
> (c) Mixture (e.g. core courses pre-blocked, options flexible) [X]
> (d) Other (please state)
>
> 3. What timetabling software do you use? And how long have you used
> it?
> (a) Syllabus Plus [ ]
> (b) Facility CMIS [ ]
> (c) Other commercial product (please state) [ ]
> (d) In-house system [ ]
> (e) Manual timetabling [ X]
>
> 4. Do you publish the teaching timetable on the web?
> (a) Yes, whole teaching timetable is published on the web [ ]
> (b) Yes, but practice varies; some depts do, some don't [ ]
> (c) Yes, other (please state)
> (d) No, not available on the web at all [X ]
>
> 5. Please could you tell me the URL of your timetabling website (if
> applicable)
>
> Thank you for your time.
>
> Anne Johnson, Assistant Registrar
> Student Systems Office, Sussex House,
> University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9RH
> Telephone (01273) 678761; Fax (01273) 877389
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> http://www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/sso/
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Keele University
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