Why do you need course scheduling tools for your institution?

Course scheduling is an integral part of curriculum design which involves a series of tasks for the course administration. The content and context of the Course Learning and Outcomes are achieved through designing the learning, teaching and assessment strategy in an appropriate, relevant and integrated manner. The depth and breadth of the course content have to be planned as an integrated flow of sessions. Then the planned session flow has to be grouped based on the expectation of the outcome and allotted to all students or student groups

The institution delivering multiple programs and courses always has challenges in effectively managing the staff members, and infrastructure effectively to avoid overlapping schedules, misallocation of infrastructure, inability to communicate to students and staff during changes of schedule or infrastructure or staff, etc. Existing scheduling systems used in SIS, ERP and other tools are not able to solve the problems because of their innate inability to handle disciplined regulated delivery of the curriculum. 

DigiClass helps the institution to schedule sessions without overlap and ensure the infrastructures are used efficiently. 

The increased use of DigiClass course scheduling tools has reduced the workload and burden of administrators and faculties in deciding the sessions for a whole semester. Now the teachers can concentrate on content delivery and focus on student engagement using improved class activities. 

DigiClass provide automated course scheduling for each semester to enhance student performance, and department and faculty efficiency. With automated timetables, the institution can view the faculty availability, classroom availability and course outcomes aligned with the student learning outcomes. 

When classes are scheduled in an automated manner, it becomes easier to incorporate any changes that happen on the go. Sudden shifts and adjustments can also be added to the software, which then alters the schedule accordingly. 

Here are some of the pointers that show the functions of having a course scheduling tool:

• Create a course template
• Customise curriculum based on the needs of the institution
• Automated timetable for each subject
• View classroom and lab availability for the day’s session
• Send personalised notifications to the enrolled students on the upcoming sessions
• Auto-schedule faculty based on availability
• Reschedule or cancel sessions
• Review the past events and track the upcoming ones
• Data analytics and reports for students and teachers
• Flexibility in scheduling to cater to student needs
• Optimising faculty work so they can focus on enhancing teaching methods. 

Automated course scheduling is what will help your teachers and students to focus on the important aspects of learning without wasting time on planning classes. With tools like these teachers won't lose much time from their one-hour session and can use the time effectively for content delivery and student engagement. DigiClass also provides face ID entry of students and teachers to a session, which again saves you time.

So ensure you adopt the features and tools that cater to the needs of your institution and help the overall development of the learners. Blended learning and incorporating the most suitable learning tools is the need of the hour. So does your institution check the above pointers and keep up with the latest educational technology trends?