TimeTabler

TimeTabler is a fast and friendly computer program, based on many years of timetabling experience, carefully designed to help you to schedule your timetable quickly and accurately.

TimeTabler requires no knowledge of computers.   It is designed to allow you to sit at the keyboard controls and ‘drive’ your way through the timetable.   The easier way.

TimeTabler has been continuously developed and improved by our team of expert timetablers over a period of 40 years, using the many comments provided by a large number of users in a variety of situations.

Many hundreds of schools and colleges, in over 80 countries, now use TimeTabler to do the actual scheduling of their timetables on a computer.

Timetabling (scheduling) has a powerful effect on the life of a school or college, and if you are a timetabler you carry a heavy responsibility.

Modern software can relieve you of much of the donkey-work of timetabling, leaving you with more time to apply your skill and judgement where they are needed in order to produce a timetable of the highest quality.   This page gives you an introduction to our widely-used timetabling program called TimeTabler.
This extremely popular and proven computer software will schedule your timetable for you.
(Do not confuse this program (Keith Johnson’s TimeTabler) with other programs with similar names).

Options (electives)

Options is a well-known program for analysing and organising the subject Choices (electives) that students make in the optional part of their curriculum.

Unlike other Options software this program will automatically find the best solutions for you, without you having to guess.
You can download a free Tutorial version from this site.

Options is designed to help you streamline the annual business of arranging the subject Choices into an Options Pattern, ready for timetabling.
This process is often done for students about to enter Year/grade 10 and Year/grade 12.

It is important to:

• Get the highest satisfaction rate for the students, to let them study the subject choices they have chosen. This improves students’ motivation, and Exam results. And improves relations with parents.
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• Keep the cost of staffing the curriculum as low as possible. This is particularly important if the course lasts 2 or 3 years.

StaffCover

Staff Cover is a well-known and reliable computer program, widely used in schools and colleges.  You can download a trial version from this site.

StaffCover is designed to help you streamline the daily business of arranging and publishing Cover for absent staff or special events as effectively, quickly and fairly as possible.

StaffCover takes its data from the TimeTabler  program – you do not need to type in your timetable again !

The program is up-and-running within seconds of switching on your computer, and is designed to operate on the minimum number of key-presses.
All entries are error-checked to help you get fool-proof results (even if you are half-asleep or in a rush due to late phone-calls).