Download schedule viewer: a scheduling tool for ubc okanagan administration

 1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Motivation
Until now viewing and creating class schedules at UBC Okanagan has been unnecessarily difficult and tedious. The process required sifting through many separate spreadsheets and manually entering data multiple times. There was no easy way to check when a group of professors had free time for a meeting or to check for class conflicts within a program. Simple scheduling matters have taken far more time than necessary. Faculty and administrators have been requesting a solution to this problem for some time, yet nothing had been produced to meet these requirements until now. 1.2 Thesis Statement and Contributions
The Schedule Viewer system provides a much needed client application for UBC Okanagan administrators which gives them the ability to easily manage faculty schedules by providing intuitive controls in a visual interface. Administration at UBC Okanagan has been struggling with scheduling organization for some time and Schedule Viewer provides a solution for this problem. The client application is a Microsoft Outlook add‐in, which makes use of the existing visual interface. Faculty schedule information is stored in a database and accessed by the client through a server application. Administrators will be able to view multiple schedules by importing time blocks based on specific criteria and use Outlook to view these schedules in various levels of detail. This will greatly simplify schedule‐
planning at UBC Okanagan, making it easier and more efficient. 1