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I can now create a better timetable in less time.Philip MoonHigh School of Glasgow, Scotland
Brilliant, easy to use, wonderfully supported by a highly knowledgeable team.Keith IrvineBishops’ Stortford College Herts
TimeTabler and Options have been fantastic tools.

John Ridley
Tanglin Trust,
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With TimeTabler, 3 days’ work can be carried out in minutes.Ian CrabbeMarlborough College, Wilts
I have been really impressed with the support that I have received.Anne HoldenPortland Central,Australia
I found TimeTabler much easier to use …Beth LedgerAmman Valley School,Wales
TimeTabler has continued to be great value for money.Danny KotelHenry Lawson High School,Australia
We thoroughly recommend all three products … they save us a great deal of time.Ted Fenton, David WilliamsCokethorpe School, Oxon
I can recommend TimeTabler and Options to anyone.John MackenzieDunalastair School,Chile
I thoroughly recommend TimeTabler to any school.Charles BrenanNewland House School,Middlesex

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TimeTabler

For scheduling your quality timetable …

Buy TimeTabler now      Download the Free Tutorial


  • Easy-to-use and intuitive
  • Well-established (over many years) and successful
  • School-led development through the ‘Wish-List’
  • Interactive, Semi- & Fully-automatic scheduling
  • Exports to Options and to StaffCover
  • Creates a timetable with an emphasis on Quality
  • Many Advanced Features when needed
  • Supported in 12 ways by an experienced Team
  • Customizable and flexible
  • Gold-Start, training, workshops, webinars, etc
  • Exports to all major MIS / Admin Systems
  • Exports to Web-pages, Excel, etc

Overview of TimeTabler

Timetabling (scheduling) has a powerful effect on the life of a school or college, and if you are a timetabler you carry a heavy responsibility.

Modern software can relieve you of much of the donkey-work of timetabling, leaving you with more time to apply your skill and judgement where they are needed in order to produce a timetable of the highest quality.   This page gives you an introduction to our widely-used timetabling program called TimeTabler.
This extremely popular and proven computer software will schedule your timetable for you.
(Do not confuse this program, Keith Johnson’s TimeTabler, with other programs with similar names).

Later you can download a copy of the software, with a Tutorial and some demonstration data.

On this page:

  • About TimeTabler,
  • What it looks like,
  • What it does.

About TimeTabler

Chris Johnson; Timetabling Software for Schools

TimeTabler is a fast and friendly computer program, based on many years of timetabling experience, carefully designed to help you to schedule your timetable quickly and accurately.

TimeTabler requires no knowledge of computers.   It is designed to allow you to sit at the keyboard controls and ‘drive’ your way through the timetable.   The easier way.

TimeTabler has been continuously developed and improved by our team of expert timetablers over a period of 40 years, using the many comments provided by a large number of users in a variety of situations.

Many hundreds of schools and colleges, in over 90 countries, now use TimeTabler to do the actual scheduling of their timetables on a computer.

Click here to see the Comments made by Timetablers who have used our software.


TimeTabler will cope easily with the largest school.   And yet it is friendly for small schools as well.


What TimeTabler looks like

Look how friendly the screens are:
MainMenu-BasicData+shadows; Timetabling Software for Schools

 It’s as straightforward as 1-2-3-4.  This is the screen for Step 1 : entering your Basic Data.
And every screen has a
Help button, to explain what each part does.
 You can see more examples of the screens by clicking here.

 

Click here to see a Video about the 4 steps in TimeTabler.    Timetabling Software for Schools

 

TimeTabler is based on long timetabling experience.   It’s friendly & intuitive.
You stay in full control and can over-ride the machine at every stage.
And it is supported by a 24/7 Support Centre and a team of experienced timetablers.  We are the experts.

It will run on any PC or laptop with Windows Vista, Win-7, Win-8, Win-10, Win-11 or later.  (‘Mac’ Users or Linux Users can run it by using ‘Parallels’ or similar.)


What TimeTabler does

TimeTabler will help you to deal efficiently with:Main Menu

  • the scheduling of part-time teachers,
  • option patterns, maths sets,
  • staggered lunch-breaks, variable days,
  • split-site schools, consortium days,
  • shared teaching in the ‘Sixth Form’,
  • ‘consistently-setted’ blocks,
  • etc. etc

TimeTabler can deal with ANY curricular structure, of ANY complexity.
No other timetabling program can claim this.
And you can use our HelpLine Support if you need help or advice with any aspect of your timetable.  We use a WishList system so our Users drive its future development.

 


TimeTabler is totally self-checking.   For example: it will never allow you to allocate by mistake any one teacher to two classes at the same time; and it will always warn you if you begin to put two classes in the same room; or if you decide to put two separate lessons of Maths on the same day, etc. etc.
This means that the timetable is guaranteed to work when the new term starts.

TimeTabler will automatically take care of all normal requirements like putting 5 periods of French on 5 different days (unless you tell it not to).


Design a Quality Timetable

Using the high speed of the computer, combined with efficient & proven timetabling algorithms, TimeTabler looks ahead and shows you at every stage a recommended list of Priorities for you to consider.

That is, it recommends which lesson you should place on the timetable, and where you should place it !
At every stage, you can follow the program’s advice  or  you can make your own decision.

In this way you get the very best result of the computer’s speed combined with your judgement & experience & your knowledge of your colleagues.  
This is the way to get a quality timetable.
  Other programs don’t do this for you!


But in addition to this mechanical checking and prioritzing, TimeTabler will do far more – it will do the actual scheduling of the timetable for you,

  • either interactively (you and the machine working together),
  • or automatically (you relax while the machine does the work),
  • or both (swap between them, whenever you wish).

There are more details shown on the next TimeTabler page.


AND  TimeTabler has a superb special feature called FIT.  

If a problem lesson will not fit into your timetable, then TimeTabler will quickly search through millions of complicated ‘musical chairs’ moves in order to find and show some solutions for you to choose from!

It’s fast and clever!   Wonderful!


  • Designed by timetablers, for timetablers
  • Works well for ‘Sixth-forms’
  • Your feedback and suggestions guide development
  • We are experts in this specialist field
  • Supports all UK-style curricula, IB, etc
  • Works well in Scotland
  • Immediate access to Support, at 5 levels
  • Regularly update yourself with ‘Check for Updates’

Users’ comments

Click here to see what other timetablers have said about us. quote by User  
See what experienced timetablers say.

FAQs – Frequently Asked Questions
Click here to see the Answers, or get an Order Form.


More details
Click here to move to the next page, for more details of how TimeTabler works.

Now with enhanced Gold-Start Support.


  • Buy TimeTabler Now     Get A Free Tutorial

If you have any queries, please e-mail them to: ask@timetabler.com.   We will answer any questions you may have about using the software with your particular curriculum.

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Basic Data

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This shows the Main Menu, and Step 1 : the Basic Data screen, with five big buttons.

Each button leads you to an entry screen.

To enter your data you would start at the left, and work your way across to the right.

Look how straightforward it is, compared to other programs !

And the fully-illustrated printed Manual explains each step, in detail.

 

Subjects Screen

subjects screen

This is the screen for saying which Subjects you will want to timetable.

You can return here at any time to edit / alter your data.

You can give each Subject a colour – this helps during scheduling, and for the printouts.

Visual Builder Screen

visual builder screen

This is the main screen on which you do the actual scheduling.
You can sit at this Visual Builder Screen and drag-and-drop to ‘drive’ through the timetable.
 
At first sight it looks very complicated.  To see what each part will do for you, please click on: www.timetabler.com/kb/UsingtheVisualBuilderScreen.pdf

Class Timetable Screen

 

visual builder screen

 

This shows you the Class Timetables, so you can see the pattern while you are scheduling lessons.
  
There are similar screens for the Staff Timetables and for the Room Timetables.
 
If you use dual monitors you can see these more easily and spread them out over the bigger area.

All the buttons, and the symbols, are explained when you click on the button.

The Printout Menu

This shows you some of the possibilities for the Printouts.
 
Within each of these, there are millions of ways of fine-tuning the exact design of the Printouts.

They can be printed on paper, or produced as web-pages, at the click of a button.

A professional result.
 

The 'master' Class Printout Screen

Class timetable printout screen

This shows you the Preview Screen , so you can design the ‘master’ Class printout, before printing it.
 
There are similar screens for the Staff Timetables and for the Room Timetables.
 
You have total control over the design, the font and the colour, the column widths, the labels, etc, etc.
 
All the buttons and the controls, are explained when you click on the button.