The primary functionality of the Scheduler tool is for generating and viewing university course schedules. Individual instructors enter their time and course preferences through their user accounts in the system. Administrators are able to set global constraints and change the preferences of instructors. Administrators are also able to generate, view, and export schedules.

Following an overview of the Scheduler tool user interface, details of system use are presented for the following scenarios:

• a system administrator generating a schedule
• a system administrator viewing a generated schedule in a variety of ways
• a system administrator managing resources in a database
• an instructor setting their preferences
• a system administrator performing administrative functions
• details of file and edit commands