School Scheduling Software: what are you using?

[space-time]

for those involved in making the schedule for schools, what are you guys using? My dad just retired this year but he still makes the schedule for his former school, as a favour, since no one figured out how to use a software package to create a school schedule

he's using aSc TimeTables http://www.asctimetables.com/, before that several years ago he did it all pencil/paper

is there a Macintosh package that does similar things like aSc Time Tables?

[Mac1337]

What is a school schedule? For whom?

[beagledave]

http://www.pearsonschoolsystems.com/

[haikuman]

Dakota wrote:
What is a school schedule? For whom?

This was a question for intelligent individuals not trolls *(:>* no need to excrete your nonsense *(:>*

Dakuta *(:>*

[Ombligo]

As a teacher dealing with the idiocy of IT, just don't do what what our district did - Get Integrade Pro to handle classroom grades but not attendance or report cards; then get Crosspoint to handle those two tasks. Insure the programs do not share data so that teachers must input everything twice. Then the designers of Crosspoint limited class input size for attendance to 12 students per screen and does not save data between screens.

I've seen better designed Freeware than those two pieces of garbage.

Thanks for letting me vent, it felt good.

[sekker]

All I can say is that my son's high school would be better off WITHOUT a computer. Their system is phenomenally terrible.

I used to work at a university with over 65,000 students enrolled each semester. Believe it or not, you could generally figure out what classes were full in real time. Sometimes there were glitches, but nothing horrible.

It takes this high school over 2 WEEKS to make a scheduling change because NOTHING works in real time. NOTHING.

[Markintosh]

We use PowerSchool. I actually helped pioneer it in our district back when PowerSchool was owned by Apple.

It's not quite the same now that it is owned by Pearson. They moved it from a stable 4D database platform to Oracle. This made it quite crash prone. We finally relented this year and have let Pearson host the data on their servers so they can deal with crashes.