How Do I Library: inline help for ofCourse
Last month I talked about the Scheduling Assistant. This month I want to talk about another helpful tool you have…
Scheduler checklist, aka Troy-in-a-Bottle
One of the best and worst facets of the scheduling life cycle is that it only happens once a year.…
Footnotes for annotating public schedules
As anyone who has ever made anything knows, it is not the typical, expected, cooperative parts of something that makes…
Year in review: Product updates in 2016
Read about features we added in 2016, including footnotes, new public views, historical reporting, and more granular start times.
Classes with special designations: no classroom, online-only, weekend
In a simple and conflict-free world, every class would have a straightforward and traditional course configuration. Every Monday and Wednesday…
Our earliest system prototypes did not include a way for people who were not administrative users of the system to…
Our goal: make you, the schedule maker, look awesome
Replicate a polished schedule. Change start times, change rooms, or move classes online. Experiment. See if a new strategy will work.
I was the technology director at an empirical research center. I loved my job, like quite a bit. Everything we…