Here are the results of my timetabling survey of 22nd Feb. Thanks to all
those who responded; I had 20 responses in total.
1. ORGANISATION OF TIMETABLING
9 Central timetabling section
7 Devolve to faculty/dept level
4 Centrally allocate rooms, but devolve timetabling
2. CONSTRUCTION OF TIMETABLE
5 timetable from actual student course choices
6 have a pre-blocked timetable
9 have a mixture (e.g. core courses pre-blocked, options flexible)
3. TIMETABLING SOFTWARE
7 use Syllabus Plus
5 use Facility CMIS
4 use Celcat
4 timetable manually
4. PUBICATION ON WEBSITE (OR INTRANET)
8 publish the whole timetable on the web
3 publish part of it (e.g. just lectures)
9 don't publish on the web at all
Respondents and their timetabling website URLs [if provided]:
Bath http://www.bath.ac.uk/Admin/Student_Records/custom/index.htm
Birmingham http://www.ao.bham.ac.uk/facility/
Bristol
Brunel http://www.brunel.ac.uk/registry/timetabling/
Chester
Edge Hill http://www.edgehill.ac.uk/study/timetables/
Keele
Kent Institute
Loughborough
Northumbria http://information.unn.ac.uk/
Oxford http://www.admin.ox.ac.uk/pubs/lectures/
Reading
Ripon & York
Sheffield http://www-online.shef.ac.uk:3001/live/owa/web_tt.main
Southampton Institute
SOAS
St Marys
Sunderland
Sussex http://www.susx.ac.uk/Units/sso/ttable/
Thames Valley
I hope this summary is helpful; if you need further details please ask.
Anne.
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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