Event Management Systems is a popular tool that is available for all kinds of event scheduling needs. Their Campus product is used by over 1,000 colleges and universities to help with the scheduling needs of 2.5 million registered users.

Good Features:

• provides scheduling assistance for courses and final examinations
• is able to fully utilize rooms by putting classes, club meetings and other events into the same database for scheduling
• integrating with both commercial and custom student information systems
• filtering tool can show available or reserved classrooms on request
• web browser integration so that scheduling information is available at any time
• calendar view of schedules
• algorithm to generate multiple schedule possibilities

Bad Features:

• has event-related finance features that are unnecessary and puts unnecessary personalized information on a feature used by all students
• the integrated emailing system is only compatible with Microsoft Outlook
• pricing information is only available upon request, indicating that it is probably expensive
• the tool tries to do too many things at once, causing unnecessarily complicated use and excess features
• teacher room and time preferences are not accounted for, classes are just put into time slots without preferences being accounted for

Missing Features:

• an open-source data format
• drag and drop classes inside of calendar feature to edit schedules
• teacher room and class preference input option
• ability to roll an existing schedule from a previous quarter forward
• ability to export schedules to excel, .cvs or .pdf files