Lecturer self-service
At several hundred academic staff, collecting availability by email stops being feasible. Open the booking system to them and generate against what they submit.
Solutions
Timetabling software for universities
Wise Timetable was built for a research university that had outgrown everything else available, and enterprise scale has stayed its design centre ever since. There is no practical ceiling on programmes, modules, rooms or staff.
- No entity limits
- Faculty autonomy with central oversight
- Under a minute to regenerate
The problem universities actually have
It is rarely the algorithm. It is that scheduling authority is distributed and resources are not.
Faculties want to schedule their own teaching, on their own judgement, to their own deadlines. Rooms, laboratories, shared modules and jointly appointed staff do not respect those boundaries. The registrar sits between the two, reconciling by hand, discovering collisions late, and absorbing the blame for both.
Wise Timetable handles this by letting faculties work independently within one system rather than in separate spreadsheets. Shared resources are visible to everyone who draws on them, and a clash is detected the moment it is created rather than in a reconciliation pass in late August.
Where faculties genuinely are independent — no shared rooms, no shared staff, separate publication — they can be licensed as separate timetables instead. The pricing model is built around exactly that distinction.
What universities lean on hardest
Constraint depth
Thousands of constraints, with hard rules and soft preferences handled separately so a solution actually exists.
Exam scheduling
Student-level clash checking across every module combination, with seating plans and invigilator assignment.
SIS integration
Scheduled synchronisation with your student records system, so the timetable is not a second source of truth.
Utilisation reporting
Room utilisation and workload figures for capital planning committees and heads of department.
Publishing at scale
Personalised timetables for tens of thousands of students across web, iOS, Android, signage and calendar feeds.
We came to Wise having assessed the other solutions out there, against a backdrop of clunky software and appalling service. I could not have been happier with the Wise solution — they delivered a product that works very well, doing all we ask of it.
Running it without expanding your IT department
We describe Wise Timetable as an IT-less system, and universities are where that claim earns its keep. Once implemented, core operations are handled by the server and by our support team. Administration staff make changes themselves — rooms, lecturers, programmes, individual sessions — with no deployment and no ticket.
For an institution where every internal IT hour is contested, a scheduling system that does not compete for those hours is worth more than a marginally better generation algorithm.
See Wise Timetable on your own data
Book a 45-minute online presentation. We will walk through your institution's scheduling problem, show how Wise Timetable handles it, and answer anything your team wants to test.