Reporting
Timetable reports for university management
The timetable is a dataset about how your institution uses staff time and floor space. Most institutions build it, publish it, and never ask it a question.
The reports that get asked for
- Room utilisation by room, building, campus and time of day — the number capital planning committees want before approving a new building.
- Lecturer workload distribution by individual and department, which is what every annual load argument is nominally about.
- Unallocated sessions and the constraints blocking them, which turns a complaint into a specific decision.
- Student contact hours per cohort, and the quality of their timetable in terms of gaps and spread.
- Free and occupied capacity at any point in the week.
- Booking activity and approval throughput, showing whether the approval workflow is a control or a bottleneck.
Why generating them from the live timetable matters
The alternative is a manual utilisation survey: expensive, disruptive, sampled rather than complete, and out of date the moment it is finished. A report generated from the live timetable is none of those things and can be reproduced whenever anyone questions it.
It also means management decisions rest on actual scheduling data rather than on what a department believes about itself, which is usually the more contentious and more valuable contribution.
Want to see this working?
Book a 45-minute online presentation and we will walk through it against your institution's own scheduling problem.