That's the main concept behind TimeDesign. There are an assortment of other features available to make your timetabling as quick, simple and as painless as possible.
Some of the newer features are listed below:
| A Reworked Solving Engine. | On average about a 10% improvement over the old engine. |
| Autosave | You can decide how many saves & how often. |
| Recover | Menu option to Recover an autosaved file. |
| Undo Option | Up to 30 levels of undo on most actions taken. |
| Colours | Ability to change the colours on the timetables to suite your requirements. |
| Teacher Substitution | Simply load your working timetable, choose the teachers that are absent & select your current day. You can then either choose if you want one teacher to babysit all he classes eg. in the hall, or a teacher for each group that has a missing teacher. |
| Text File Loading. | Speed up the initial data capture by loading your Educators, Classes, Rooms and Subjects directly from text files. |
| Conflict Chart | This gives you an indication of how the groups interact with each other. |
| Combing Chart | This gives you an indication of how easily you data will fit into your timetable. |
| XML Export | You have the ability to export your timetable in XML format making it easier for Third Party School Administration Programs to import the information. |
| Coming in the very near future. | |
| Direct Printing | You will have the ability to print directly from the program if you don't still want to personalise any timetable information. |
| HTML Export | You will have the ability to export all information directly to HTML Format for direct publishing on your Institution's Web Site. |
| Multiple Languages | You will have the ability to modify terminology to suit you. i.e.. calling a group a tie or combination instead.You could even translate the entire program into your own language. Export and import of languages. |
| Pooling of Rooms | Allow a Group to take any room that may be available. |