College timetable software for electives, labs and shared faculty

Why a college timetable is a different problem

A school timetable is mostly one class in one room with a stream of teachers passing through it. A college timetable is the opposite: students move, groups form and dissolve, and the same sixty students are one audience in the morning and four elective groups in the afternoon. Software that only understands "class × period" cannot express that.

• Elective and option groups — four subjects running in the same slot, each with its own lecturer and room, with every student in exactly one of them.
• Combined lectures — two or three sections merged into a single lesson taught once, by one lecturer, in one hall — one lesson occupying several squares, not several duplicate lessons.
• Practicals and labs — continuous blocks that cannot be split by a bell, in rooms with a hard capacity limit.
• Visiting and part-time faculty — available Tuesdays and Thursdays only, and the timetable has to work around that rather than discover it later.
• Uneven period lengths — a fifty-minute lecture and a two-hour practical inside the same day.
• Departments sharing rooms — a seminar hall or a computer lab that three departments all want at eleven.

How WeekWise handles them

You describe the structure once, in a guided set of questions, and the engine solves the whole grid against it — every group, every room, every faculty member — instead of asking you to place lectures and then telling you what you broke.

• Option blocks — define the parallel group, name the subject and lecturer for each stream, and the block is placed as one slot across every group at once.
• Combined classes — merge sections into one lesson; it is a single lesson that appears in every merged section’s timetable, so editing it once edits it everywhere.
• Room kinds and capacity — mark a subject as needing a lab, computer room, library or sports facility, and it will only ever be placed where it can actually run.
• Faculty availability — block out the days and periods a lecturer is not on campus, and nothing will be scheduled into them.
• Workload caps — a weekly teaching-hours ceiling per faculty member, plus a limit on consecutive lectures.
• Free-period meetings — find a slot where an entire department is free — the query that otherwise takes an hour of comparing printouts.

What WeekWise is, and is not

WeekWise solves the weekly grid: who teaches what, to whom, where and when, for a repeating week or a rotating Day 1–N cycle. That covers junior colleges, degree colleges, coaching institutes, polytechnics and training centres that run a fixed weekly schedule.

It is not a student information system and it does not register students onto courses, hold attendance or publish results — a college running per-student enrolment across a semester will keep doing that in its existing ERP. If you want the wider school-administration side as well, that is a different TeachConnect product: Homeroom.

Exams and revision weeks

The same workspace builds dated exam timetables, keeps a pre-exam revision week as its own version alongside the normal one, and hands back the regular week when the exams end. See the exam timetable generator for how that works.