mohyeddin abdulaziz: arizona law tim divito: rutgers school of law – camden phil bohl: pepperdine...

Why is there Hot Pizza in my classroom?

Room and Course Scheduling

Mohyeddin Abdulaziz: Arizona LawTim DiVito: Rutgers School of Law – Camden

Phil Bohl: Pepperdine School of Law

Welcome

What brings you here?

Course Scheduling

Room Scheduling

Curiosity about potential presence of food?

What are you in for?

Nuts and Bolts of Scheduling

Some Selected Tools available for Scheduling

But First …

Course Scheduling Defined *

• It is NOT assigning courses to rooms

• Rather it is selecting the BEST fit weighing many factors

Everything else is Room Scheduling

*For the purposes of this presentation

Nuts & Bolts

Who are your customers?

Who are your users?

What are your constraints?

What Tools can you use?

Customers

• Students• Faculty• Administrators• Event planners/Guests

Users• Dean• Dept Staff or Administrative Assistant• Technology Liaison• Faculty• Students• University Programs & Events office• Others?

Constraints• The Obvious

–Facility–Faculty–Academic Policies

• Not as Obvious–Subtleties of “The Scheduler”–Time–Random acts of “kindness”

Tools*

• EMS Campus by Dean Evans & Associates, Inc.

• ScheduleWhiz Academic by Thoughtimus • University of Arizona Law – in house

system• Paper/Whiteboard method with any room

scheduler package

*By no means an exhaustive list

EMS Campus

EMS

EMS

ScheduleWhiz

Course Groupings

ScheduleWhiz

ScheduleWhiz

ScheduleWhiz

University of Arizona Law

• Customized application suite• Built up over 10 years• Completely integrated• Course Management System• Course Scheduling/Room Reservations• And MUCH more

University of Arizona Law

Demo of University of Arizona Forums Site

Scheduling

• Course Scheduling

EMS Campushttp://www.dea.com

ScheduleWhizhttp://www.thoughtimus.com

University of Arizona Law Forumsabdulaziz@law.arizona.edu

Scheduling

• Room Scheduling

Resource Schedulerhttp://www.peoplecube.com

Outlook/Exchangehttp://www.microsoft.com

google “room scheduler” or “resource scheduler”

Making A Decision

• No single “right” way to meet this area• Consider your variables, your constraints• Build vs. Buy analysis• Shrink-wrapped vs. open source vs. implemented• TALK to people who have done what you’re

considering – not just sales people

Mo

abdulaziz@law.arizona.edu

Tim

tdivito@camlaw.rutgers.edu

Phil

pbohl@pepperdine.edu