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

• Visual Classroom Scheduler,
• FET,
• Wise TimeTable,
• UniTime,
• Lantiv TimeTabler,
• CyberMatrix Class Schedule

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

1. more choices for ways to display information;
2. more user-friendly so that administrators can easily figure out how to use it;
3. more options for constraints such as specific equipment, accessibility access, etc.

The goals for the Scheduler Tool 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:

• Visual Classroom Scheduler review
• FET review
• Wise Timetable review
• UniTime review
• Lantiv TimeTabler review
• CyberMatrix Class Schedule review