Program Overview

The Academic Scheduler is an application that allows the user to create, save, and export a semester schedule for an academic department. It uses multiple subwindow viewers of information of the schedule and a drag-and-drop interface to make course scheduling quicker and easier. There is certainly no possible way that this or any other program will be able to encompass all of the intricacies in scheduling for every department at every university but it is hoped that it will be sufficient and ease a significantly difficult task for the departmental leadership.

The subwindow views offered are as follows,

The program also offers several reporting options. Most reports have two ways to view them, either as a document or as a table. The document format is really an HTML webpage. Document format allows the user to print the report to a printer or to export it to a PDF file. The table format allows the user to copy the report to the system clipboard as a tab delimited string that can be pasted into nearly any spreadsheet. The reports offered are as follows,

The program also offers standard file saving and loading of schedules. The files that are saved contain all database information for the schedule. So when creating a new schedule, if one had been created previously, the user would open an old file and make the needed changes. These procedures and options will be discussed in other sections of this help system.