RDS Regional Data Services, Inc.

products > master schedule builder

Screenshots

Master Schedule Builder General Information

Regional Data Services has developed a web based Master Schedule Builder that quickly and easily installs on your web server. This web based Master Schedule Builder is powerful and easy to use.

• Step-by-step scheduling process with comprehensive reports

• Automatic scheduling without eliminating the experience or intuitiveness of human scheduling

• Generate schedules for any number of schools

• For each school, create unlimited versions of schedules each with their own settings

• Generate and compare schedules with different settings

• Generate schedules for Semester or Trimester schools, with any type of grade period configuration

• Import courses, teachers, and student course requests from your existing Student

• Management system, eliminating the need for data entry

• Manually or automatically configure settings for each course

• Grade levels

• Ability levels

• Number of periods per day

• Prerequisites

• Days of the week the course can run

• Semesters in which the course can run

• Periods of the day which the course can run

• Minimum, maximum, and optimum seats

• Number of sections

• Restrict courses to one or more rooms

• Optionally combine courses so they are scheduled together

• Manually or automatically configure settings for each teacher

• Exclude the teacher from one or more specific periods

• Maximum number of unique courses

• Restrict the teacher to one or more courses and/or departments

• Maximum number of sections for each course

• Restrict teachers to one or more rooms

• Specify the number of open (plan) periods per day for each teacher

• Potential usage reports highlight the amount of staff available for each course and subject

• Generate schedules and room assignments with one click

• Evenly distributes plan periods and courses for a balanced schedule

• View teacher schedules in a convenient, printable grid

• Optionally view teacher schedules by department

• Simple drag and drop interface for manually modifying a schedule

• Manually add or remove course sections from a schedule

• View schedule summaries by department

• Upload completed schedules to your existing Student Management System

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. What other software is needed to run the RDS Master Schedule Builder?

A. Windows 2000 Server or Windows 2003 Server, including Internet Information Service (IIS) version 5.0, SQL Server 2000 or higher and a connection to the Internet with a Static IP address

Q. How much training is required?

A. Users can be trained in one day.