Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Re: Scheduling Software

These are both free and open source - so free as in speech - not as in
beer

There's Centre SIS - it has a scheduling component - but probably more
than you want because it's an entire student information system

There's also FET - it's pretty incredible - includes stuff like time to
go between buildings, preferred starting time and other rules. More
geared toward higher ed.

On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 08:35 -0500, Martha McMahon wrote:

> Hello all,
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> Does anyone have a good student scheduling program then can=20
> recommend? Here is our situation:
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> We currently use MacSchool as our scheduling software, which is no=20
> longer supported after 2010. I am looking into new options, and=20
> PowerSchool is very expensive and has a number of features we don't=20
> need. Basically, our main student information system is a FileMaker=20
> database with which we are all very happy. Each Spring, I export=20
> student requests from FileMaker (student ID's and course numbers),=20
> and import this information into MacSchool. There are two ladies=20
> that then work with the MacSchool Scheduler to get all of the courses=20
> assigned. Then I export the data from MacSchool back into FileMaker.
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> I am looking for a pretty user friendly scheduler that is not so=20
> expensive (PowerSchool is over $10,000), and can easily import and=20
> export data from excel or tab-delimited files.
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> Any help with this would be greatly appreciated!
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> Thanks,
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Matt Burkhardt, MSTM
President
Impari Systems, Inc.
=EF=BB=BF401 Rosemont Avenue
Frederick, MD 21701
mlb@imparisystems.com
www.imparisystems.com
(301) 644-3911

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