UniTime 4.8 Documentation

General

• Homepage: http://www.unitime.org/

• Online Demo: https://demo.unitime.org/

• UniTime Highlights: PDF 

Manuals

• Administrative User Manual: link

• Course Timetabling Data Entry Manual: link (with Banner notes link)

• Course Timetabling Solver Manual: link

• Event Management Manual: link

• Event Manager Administrative Tasks: link

• Scheduling Assistant Manual: link (Purdue specific link)

• Scheduling Assistant Dashboard: link (Purdue specific link)

• Instructor Scheduling Manual: link

• Managing Student Group Reservations: link

Page Documentation

• Individual pages: help.unitime.org (UniTime 4.5 or later)

  • /page-name for an individual page -- spaces are replaced by underscores, e.g., /instructional-offerings for Instructional Offerings page

• Course Timetabling

  • Solution Properties, Solver Warnings, Class Properties, Solver Status, Distribution Preferences Types and Structure, Additional Distribution Constraints

Webinars

• Introducing UniTime https://youtu.be/anUOP14l1QE [slides]

• Course Timetabling with UniTime https://youtu.be/k3FAhKa3HOA [slides]

• Examination Timetabling in UniTime https://youtu.be/x3xQcXwKhn4 [slides]

• Student Scheduling in UniTime https://youtu.be/5zKP-uEI6fQ [slides]

• Event Management in UniTime https://youtu.be/jH_YQmMKj8M [slides]

Presentations

• UniTime Best Practices: link

• For other presentations see http://www.unitime.org/presentations.php

Administrator Documentation

• Installation: help.unitime.org/installation (FAQ, Linux, Windows, Mac)

• Branding: help.unitime.org/customizations

• LDAP Authentication / Lookup: help.unitime.org/LDAP

• CAS Authentication: help.unitime.org/CAS

• Exam Naming Convention: help.unitime.org/exam-naming-convention

• XML Interfaces: www.unitime.org/uct_interfaces.php

• UniTime 4.8 APIs: link

• UniTime 4.8 Exports: link

Distribution

• Latest Release: https://github.com/UniTime/unitime/releases/latest

• Nightly Builds: http://builds.unitime.org/#UniTime48

• Release Notes: builds.unitime.org/UniTime4.8/Release-Notes.xml

Development Documentation

• GitHub: https://github.com/UniTime/unitime (master branch)

• Hibernate Configuration Files: link (*.hbm.xml, data model)

• Using Eclipse: https://help.unitime.org/eclipse

• Constraint solver:

  • GitHub: https://github.com/UniTime/cpsolver

  • JavaDoc: www.unitime.org/api/cpsolver-1.3

  • Examples: www.unitime.org/cpsolver_examples.php (including brief description of the course timetabling, examination timetabling, and student sectioning problems, XML data format, configuration, and data benchmarks)

  • PhD thesis: www.unitime.org/papers/phd05.pdf (especially sections 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 6.3, and appendix A)

  • Timetabling competition: ITC2007, ITC2019

Research Publications

• www.unitime.org/publications.php

• Most interesting:

  • Complex university course timetabling (course timetabling)

  • Real-life examination timetabling (examination timetabling)

  • Comprehensive approach to student sectioning (student sectioning)

  • Minimal perturbation problem in course timetabling

  • Real-life curriculum-based timetabling with elective courses and course sections

UniTime Banner Interface

• UniTime Side: https://github.com/UniTime/unitime-addons (build Instructions: link)

• Banner Side: https://ecommunities.ellucian.com/thread/75380

• UniTime Configuration for Student Scheduling

User Contributed Documentation

• Purdue University

  • Event Management Instructions: PDF

  • UniTime Data Entry Manual: PDF

  • Student Scheduling Assistant: link

  • Course Requests: link

• Masaryk University (in Czech)

  • Nastavení vstupních dat: link

  • Překódování předmětů v UniTime skrze Sdružené předměty: link

  • Kontrola vstupních dat v UniTime pomocí řešiče: link 

  • Kontrola hotového rozvrhu: link