1.5. Related Systems

Widely used commercial systems that provide functionality comparable to the Resource Scheduler include

• Miramosa Scheduling Software
• Lantiv Scheduling Studio 7
• Peoplecube Resource Scheduler
• Ureserve Online Scheduling Software
• Madrigal ResSched
• Office Tracker
• Cal Poly Pass

Each of these systems provides a wide variety of scheduling or organizing functionality. In terms of such functionality, the goal for the Resource Scheduler is to provide the important core features found in these tools, not the full range of features found in all of them. The Resource Scheduler does provide modest functional improvements in three areas, when compared to most commercially available tools. These improvements are:

1. Plug in based weighting/choose of schedules;
   • Ability for teachers to suggest/offer preferences of teaching days and times, and ability/desire to teach courses;
   • Ability for teachers to suggest/offer preferences of ability/desire to teach courses;
   • Ability to add new functionality through future plug-in development;
2. A more friendly, UI with drag & drop functionality;
3. Instant feedback of conflicts and changes to schedules weight caused by adjustments in the layout;

Here is a more complete breakdown of features

The goals for the Resource Scheduler relating to public domain source code and sound pedagogical development are not met by any of the above commercial systems.

A detailed review of each related tool follows in these subsections:

• 1.5.1. Mimosa
• 1.5.2. Lantiv
• 1.5.3. PeopleCube
• 1.5.4. UReserve
• 1.5.5. Madrigal
• 1.5.6. Office Tracker
• 1.5.7. Cal Poly Pass