Quick Start

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Cost: No charge

Room scheduler provided by Series25 is an All-in-One Solution for Scheduling, Calendaring and Reporting. It gives you a complete set of advanced tools for optimizing academic and event scheduling, space and resource management, web calendar publishing, and inventory management, as well as master planning and reporting

Benefits

Room Scheduler will facilitate the planning, publishing and maintenance of the University class schedule by providing sophisticated level of automated academic scheduling including enhanced self-service capability, modeling, and reporting. Room Scheduler will utilize university class inventory data, proprietary and Registrar managed room inventory data, and faculty data allowing schedulers to collaborate online to create, test-run, and compare different space optimization scenarios

Room Scheduling also supports University Events and Conferences needs.

Key Features

  • Provides automated classroom assignment of courses applied over multiple, co-existent, university calendar schedules.
  • Produces automated classroom assignment for courses via a hierarchical priority algorithm.
  • Enables manual room assignment of specialized academic spaces.
  • Automates the academic scheduling process and place course sections into the most appropriate (“best fit”) space available.
  • Provides for “preference settings” at a global and course section level to allow users to take into account the pedagogical needs for courses (location, seating types, technology required, etc.) and room attributes in order to maximize room and seat utilization.
  • Allow users to run “what if” scenarios, with preference settings, and view results before assigning rooms.
  • Provides capability to store and modify information about classrooms and their attributes (capacity, layout formats, in-room equipment).
  • Allows users to build events, requesting spaces and resources from space managers.

What to Expect

This service normally will be available 24 by 7 except for standard change windows, as described in IS&T’s standard policies, procedures, and schedules for making changes.

Requirements

A Room Scheduling Series25 account is required, see getting started below for details.

Getting Started

In order to get a Room Scheduling Series25 account, please email the appropriate contact: