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The
Visual Scheduling System
is a proven, Windows PC
based, timesaving, easy-to-use, 3-D, timetable software
system for timetabling and scheduling, costing and resource
management for all Colleges and University Teaching Sections, Departments, K-12, High School and Campus management!
If you schedule or timetable more than 5-10 teaching staff in a department,
or have a tighter budget and more students,
or manage 3000 teaching staff across Campuses -
The Visual Classroom Scheduler can deliver more students in less facilities at lower cost!
"Tighter budget, More students?"
Email us for information on How to Save with VCS!
Click here for exciting news on the new High School and US College timetable software features
Click here for latest NSW TAFE release news with new Teaching award and Windows 7, and 64 bit computing
Click here for VSS Data Entry Services to get your old timetable up and going fast!
Click here for VSS sample Web-based Timetables so students and teaching staff can see their timetables - on a cell phone!!! Capacity increased to over 3000 schedules per week to suit the largest College and University timetable. Complies with latest Microsoft security patches.
Try VCS - You'll love it!!
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you need VCS!
The 3-D design is so much faster and easier to use, you can see what to do, and click-drag-and-drop!
Attach your timetable spreadsheet file and we'll send back your example VCS file - try before you buy!
Download the new demo VCS Timetable Software Release NOW - Free!!!
Just File, Print 'Web-HTML' files for your web-site.
Link to web course details and on-line enrolment!
Timetable and Schedule staff
VCS is a unique 3-D timetable software scheduling system not just a data collection or reporting system.
The integrated 3-D views or screens simplify management of Course groups, Teaching staff and Rooming.
Simply drag-and-drop classes on screen, to better manage staff or rooms to suit budgets and preferences.
You can visually optimise staff or rooming separately while VCS integrates behind the screen.
You know you are always in control with VCS and always improving your timetable schedule!
It helps you design the best timetable schedule on screen as you go, and allows swaps and fine tuning on the fly.
VCS accepts simple teaching salaries and room and subject costs to produce amazing cost information summaries.
VCS has a radical 3-D design that visually simplifies the complex and multi-dimensional timetabling problem.
The design concepts are brilliantly integrated, and clearly presented, so Class groups, Rooms and Teaching staff can be managed individually - to obtain the best result without compromising.
Clashes can be resolved without effort, and preferences of staff and students actioned with ease.
Make an 80% saving in timetable time and effort over manual systems and a 100% saving in frustration.
Produce a with a far better timetable result for staff, students and Campus management.
Campus Managers
VCS Campus timetable systems make big savings fast, as swaps can be easily made to optimise the schedule to achieve your plans. Be up and running in a couple of days!
Room resource usage improves immediately by 10-20% and the best computer facilities become better utilised and the worst can be disposed of saving upgrade costs.
You too, can visually see opportunities to timetable additional class groups in existing facilities. Point to the VCS screen and say "Why can't we do this?"
Your staff will sort out rooming issues between themselves.
Too easy!
Class group costs can be compared to allow for more informed educational decisions and then prompt to timetable more groups at similar cost.
Requests for additional rooms can be easily allocated.
College, School or University teaching budget and student targets are more readily achieved.
Timetable details can be posted on the internet.
Timetable software can be shared amongst staff.
VSS Services will oversee and help manage your timetabling and scheduling and resource management to maximise returns and meet teaching budget and targets.
Please call or email for further information.
Please send your comments and details to obtain pricing information to suit your Department, School,
College, Institute or University to:
VCS Customer Service
Download the VCS User Manual!
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Please send comments or suggestions for Web-site improvements or needed products and services to: Web Master at VSS.
Latest VCS Timetable Software Developments
V4.2 High School and US College Timetable
V4.2 NSW TAFE Award and Windows 7 and 64 bit computing
This week:
Hello and Welcome!
We're excited about the
VSS Internet timetables.
Students and staff can get them on their mobile phone!
Update them any week - or every week!
So convenient.
Add your own banner, cut from your web-site maybe.
NSW TAFE 2012 Semester Settings and
The new Visual Classroom Scheduler, V4.2,
The new V4.2 version has a
Old event semester start and end dates
Too easy!
The VSS V4.2 screen has a lot more clarity, with dates and times and semester weeks.
Enjoy!
VSS AUSTAFE Tea Break Sponsor
The new release Visual Scheduling System V4.1 is on the web-site for down-load!
Detects / installs a 32 or 64 bit Windows VSS.
Looking to purchase a Verisign SSL certficate.
One of the staff has a new baby daughter.
Just finished updates to the Schedule Settings
for Term Breaks and Public Holidays.
Also updates to the VSS timetable import.
Use the VSS, to File, Import, your timetable data
Imports a variety of spreadsheet timetable data
Made some posts on
VCS V3.5 News
Community College Week blog
Walk around any College and you'll find empty rooms.
Visual scheduling help utilise 20% more rooms.
Reduces pressure on facilities, parking etc
VSS helps reduce attrition before and after enrolment.
Calls from VSS timetabling and scheduling software clients are picking up too!
One of the largest Colleges has ordered again for another large number of teaching sections.
Visual Classroom Scheduler V3.6 for Universities and Colleges has been released.
Previously
VCS presented at the AUSTAFE Conference in Sydney, Australia
The VCS High School system is under Australian trials and looks very exciting.
It was a surprise to see how fast the larger (1000+ student) high school schedules were created
US Colleges are purchasing VSS and we have ongoing interest from
USA and Australian High School Timetabling.
Faculties in Sydney have ordered VCS, along with individual Teaching sections.
The new VCS optionally covers the new NSW TAFE Teaching Awards.
Development has extended the schedule date features.
Previously
Updates for the NSW TAFE Part-time Teacher DOTT after 10 hours per week and
changes for all these in the totals for Screen displays, Statistics and
Listing timetable, Teacher Summary and Budget Spreadsheet.
VCS4.0 and VCS3.55 includes Windows Vista and Windows 7 security changes.
Updated the VCS web-site also. Put up some links to the NSW TAFE Semester start dates
More interest from US Colleges - another buyer.
Completed tender for State Government. Potential!!
Previously again
K-12 is a market we have been able to service but not
Timetable software takes a little while to evaluate.
Put up some more VCS demo files.
The new Tool Tip Text is really cute!
Added some more tool tip text on dialog boxes also.
The VCS Campus Scheduling Procedures got an update too.
Been promoting the latest V4.0
software release with Web-site updates and seeking out College
University and High School software download sites.
Our existing clients in the US are keen to get the V4.0 timetable print changes with
the flexibility to print shorter classes + later evening classes.
The VCS ability to give students a day off a week is generating interest and so is the
Giving staff a day off a week is a new concept in some countries and schools.
Some teaching staff work 5 days of 6 hours with 19 hours on class,
when they could do 4 x 7.5 hour days and
have a long weekend off every week - or
VCS sales will need some creative approaches to "flick" the opportunity/reality switch and
Working with college timetable staff - scheduling experts,
and local High School timetable teams.
Local High School timetable season is well underway and US College timetabling too.
Next week we have some more interesting developments -
The new VSS V4.22 version has been released.
Packed with new features for 2012!
event Rollover
The 2012 NSW TAFE 2012 Semester Settings
are up on the VSS News web-site.
Try NSW TAFE 2012 semester settings.
supports Windows 7 in 32 or 64 bits.
NSW TAFE needs V4.2 upgrades now to match.
VSS upgrades are inexpensive and are packed with new features!
semester 'Rollover' feature to update
all current events to the next semester.
Just change the semester date settings and
VSS will offer to rollover all existing events.
will become new semester start/end dates.
Old events with shorter durations will be
re-started on that semester week.
Update/add/delete events for the new
semester, and save to a new filename.
VSS menus and options and help has been upgraded to make it easier.
VSS settings have been updated with simpler calendar icons and selections.
The Timetable report has been re-written to graphically show all small and large classes neatly.
The Timetable Listing report has been upgraded to show dates and times.
The Timetable HTML files look great on your web-site! Links to enrolment requests.
VSS can now Import a variety of data formats and options.
VSS has introduced a new data entry service to upload your existing/ proposed timetable
from spreadsheets or MS-Word etc. VSS will also create timetables from scratch -
Click here for VSS Data Entry Services
Canberra
Addressing TAFE delegates from all over Australia was a
good experience and opportunity to show case
the Visual Scheduling System.
Lot of interest was generated and looking forward
to meeting and working wth new clients.
Great for High Schools and USA Colleges.
Imports existing campus data for VSS display.
Reduces time to TT to a week or less - fast!
To give potential clients a bit more confidence.
been doing business on the web for 20 years,
so.. shouldn't have too many issues there eh!
Imogen Ann is very cute!
Much easier to use with more options!
Great to see your existing timetable data visually!
VSS will clearly display clashes and opportunities.
See spare class rooms and use them easily.
You can 'what-if' and drag-and-drop your classes!
Best to have details like Room, Subject, Teacher
but it no longer matters - VSS just makes defaults.
and substitutes missing data like days and times
Also handles multiple activity days, 1-3 Mon-Fri etc.
Colleges frustrated with lack of funds and access
Scheduling can help here - big time.
Up to 30% of empty class rooms in our surveys.
and check the number of students in occupied rooms.
Up to 50% available seats even in high demand courses.
and mid-term attrition wastes the budget big time!
Students lose out here too - time and money.
VSS click, drag-and-drop enables simple 3-D swaps
Swap rooms, class groups or teaching staff easily.
Utilise 20% more rooms each week.
Swap subjects times so groups have fewer days each week
Gives students a day of for part-time work
or just save them petrol and travelling time.
More later on this - or write for information
or see the blog on Community College Week
Lots of calls and last minute VSS orders from Colleges and Universities across the country.
Looking forward to supporting their VSS timetabling implementations and doing some VSS training.
Training is always a bit of fun, as we have lots of goodies to show!
Significant new features warranted a full scheduling system version upgrade..
Clients have already received the new VSS V3.6 and comments are very pleasing.
TAFE Institute and College directors and CEOs from all over Australia see the potential
and have scheduled further briefings and demonstrations.
Swapping classes on screen made it surpisingly easy to pack students into rooming.
Because we were scheduling multiple "Maths" or "English" and "Science" subjects,
there was far more flexibility in rooming and teacher allocations than expected.
More on this later - but we are looking at a few days to enter all the classes, and about
an hour or two to allocate, drag-and-drop, and optimise the teachers and rooming.
The new award includes 20 teaching hours per week and DE commencing after 6.30PM.
Use Edit Settings and enter 20 and DE will automatically accrue from 18.30 - or optionally
enter 19 hours per week and the previous award will be fsapplied.
Allows timetables that extend over long periods (years).
VCS DLL and Config files have been moved to the C:\VSS directory
and VCS imports from Excel ignore blank lines in the header.
See VCS V3.5 News for all the details!
Click here for dates and
Fees for NSW TAFE courses shown on the
NSW Tafe website to make budget calcs easy!
Try the VCS News for how to update
Old established College in Mid-west.
Looking forward to working with them - maybe visit!
Interesting approach - they are looking for new ideas..
Suits VCS to a tee!
Would like to see them looking for educational savings.
Especially when VCS helps students make better choices.
advertised effectively. Trying harder now.
Some of our web-site partners have been promoting V4.
Had some enquiries already from K-12, School and College timetable staff
K-12 is interesting and we'd really like to do well there.
Fortunately VSS is easy to understand off the bat.
Just needs the download and a review of the demos
Just mouse-over the on-screen display and menu items.
Demos for College, University and NSW clients.
Need a K-12 demo - need a sample from someone.
Would only take a short while to put one up in VCS.
Use the mouse on a menu and better information appears.
I'm sure this will encourage clients to use more features.
Using more features will save more time - and funds!
We're hoping for feedback from timetable staff on these.
We can easily improve or add more mouse-over text.
Needs more work here = there are a lot to review.
Prepared new and upgraded V4.0 documentation including:
"How to Save with VCS" that shows the many advantages of the VCS V4.0 scheduling approach.
Differences of scheduling vs timetabling are briefly explained but basically, it
comes down to preparation vs a scramble to organise students into classes.
VCS can organise and re-organise so fast that preparation of course groups in
advance of enrolment is not only possible but
that's where the savings and benefits are for everyone.
Integrates with V4.0 and fine tunes some aspects in semester timings.
It's now up on the web-site.
Means we compete with other timetable and schedule software
but that's OK. At least potential clients get the chance to
evaluate our free demo software and see the VCS advantages.
ability to give faculty staff a day off a week.
a Wednesday golf / yoga/ shopping / childcare day etc.
galvanise grass roots teacher support for this.
Better for teaching staff, students, congestion and parking.
Working with actual timetabling staff provides excellent feedback.
Looking forward to new clients and sharing the fun!
I'll keep you posted.
Click the image above to view an expanded shot of the Visual Scheduling System.
ABOUT TRUST ONLINE |
Download the VCS User Manual in Adobe PDF format! (3Mb)
Download the VCS User Manual in Adobe PDF format zipped! (2Mb)
Download the VCS Booking Sheet in MS-Excel!
Fill in the details ready for import direct into VSS no extra keying!
Send the Booking Sheet.xls to us and we will return a VSS data file for your demo!
Or use File Import and do it yourself.
Or - Send your schedule details to us in a spreadsheet, CSV or tab-delimited text format and we will upload it into VCS for you. Your downloaded VCS demo will reveal all - clashes, resource usage and opportunities, statistics.
Free full-screen video conversations with VSS Customer Service and Training staff are available using free Skype or Ms-Messenger software. Get on-line or email VCS Customer Service for details or appointments.
