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Timetable Plus Exam — Main features

Timetable Plus Exam is standalone software that automates and manages examination timetables from each student's enrolment, for accurate scheduling, efficient use of rooms and staff, and a smooth examination process.

  • Clash-free by student
  • Rooms & overflow
  • Invigilators & positions
  • Seating
Cover of the Timetable Plus Exam Main Features document, December 2025

Every feature, page by page

The whole Timetable Plus Exam Main Features document. Choose a section, and click any page to see it full size.

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Introduction

Exams generated per student enrolment and checked for clashes; rooms with overflow to the nearest venues; lecturers and other staff as invigilators, by workload and student ratio; positions and seating.

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Main interface

The menu bar and toolbar, the Timetable Explorer with your timetable folders and files, and the Section Status Summary.

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Create a new file

A file holds an exam timetable's data and settings, and can be duplicated for the next semester so existing data carries over.

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Database

Import from CSV, Timetable Plus E-Campus or your Student Management System, then add, edit, export and manage the data.

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Raw data

Student enrolments turned into exam data, lecturers and their courses for invigilation, and non-academic staff who also invigilate.

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Similar courses

Group courses that should be examined at the same time, so the system runs them together.

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Analysis of processed data

Review the processed data in the Constraints Tree: set constraints, edit, and include or exclude courses.

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Timetable structure

Set the exam dates, start and end times, slot length and breaks, add the rooms, and see the structure in the timetable output.

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Room grouping

Group rooms by building, faculty or campus, and set the distance between room groups.

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Generate course timetable

Set how rooms are used and large courses are split across rooms, arrange courses in folders, include or exclude them, and auto-generate the exam timetable.

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Failure report

The courses that could not be assigned, each with its reason, so they can be fixed.

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Manual allocation

Move a course to any free slot by hand, clear of the courses it clashes with.

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Invigilator grouping

Act on groups of invigilators at once: lock their slots, or allow or stop them invigilating.

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Invigilator assignment

Auto-assign invigilators with minimum and maximum workloads and a student-to-invigilator ratio, or assign them by hand.

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Invigilator positions

Create positions, limit them to groups of invigilators, distribute them automatically, and change them by hand.

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Report analysis

Full reports by invigilator, student, course-student, lecturer-course and course-lecturer, filtered by venue, date, time and course.

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Output

The exam timetable by course, invigilator or student, then online in Timetable Plus E-Campus: schedule summaries, student exam slips and public viewing.

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