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Facility CMIS Advanced Techniques

Facility CMIS Advanced Techniques. Tim Purkiss. CMIS Advanced: General Information. Timing 10:00 - 13:00 (with Tea/Coffee Break) Toilets Basement level at the bottom of the stairs Ground floor just past reception on the right Fire Alarms Gathering place is Huntley Street

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Facility CMIS Advanced Techniques

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  1. Facility CMIS Advanced Techniques Tim Purkiss

  2. CMIS Advanced: General Information • Timing • 10:00 - 13:00 (with Tea/Coffee Break) • Toilets • Basement level at the bottom of the stairs • Ground floor just past reception on the right • Fire Alarms • Gathering place is Huntley Street • Out of the front of the building, turn left, first left

  3. CMIS Advanced: Course Aim To enable participants to create events for their departmental timetables and experience some of the advanced functionality that the Facility CMIS application (CMIS) offers.

  4. CMIS Advanced: Course Outline • Creating Events for Departmental Timetables • Creating events (revision) and applying the block structure • Bulk operations • Validation and Clash Checking • Checking Route structure • Student Allocations • Advanced filtering (demonstration) • Timetable views: • Master Timetable Views • Configuring Timetable Views

  5. CMIS Advanced: Introductions • Your Name • Your Department and your role • Your Experience • With creating timetables… • With CMIS or other timetabling software… • With the UCL Common Timetable Project… • Your Objectives • Reasons for attending the course

  6. CMIS Advanced: CMIS Databases at UCL • LIVE • Production database used for timetabling and room booking • Connection file is CMIS_LIVE_USER_V4.mis • TRAINING • Connection file is CMIS_TRAIN_USER_V4.mis • N:\demist\cmis

  7. CMIS Advanced: Datasets and Weeks • CMIS is organised in Datasets • LIVE-10-11 (dataset for previous academic year) • LIVE-11-12 (dataset for current academic year) • LIVE-12-13 (next year) • Timetables are based on Weeks (not dates) • Term 1: Weeks 6-10, 12-16 • Term 2: Weeks 20-24, 26-30

  8. CMIS Advanced: Terms • 10 week terms for undergraduate programmes Autumn and Spring terms • Induction week before start of Autumn term • 5 week teaching blocks separated by a reading week • Weeks 2, 3, 4, 5 of Summer term reserved for exams • 0.5 unit courses should be taught over 1 term only • 1.0 unit courses can be taught over 2 terms • Formal process for exceptions: “derogation”

  9. CMIS Advanced: Block Structure • 9 different block patterns available for undergraduate teaching each term • Teaching for each module should fall within a particular block • Teaching should not ‘span’ a block • Within a block placement of lectures, seminars etc is flexible • No undergraduate teaching on Wednesday afternoon • No undergraduate teaching during 13.00 – 14.00 lunch break

  10. CMIS Advanced: Support • Documentation • Introduction to Timetabling and Room Booking (DS-UG-15) • CMIS Advanced Functionality (DS-UG-16) • Timetabling Support and Tools • Web site: www.ucl.ac.uk/common-timetable • E-mail address: timetable-support@ucl.ac.uk • Tel: 30637

  11. CMIS Navigation: Course Evaluation Open a web browser • On Favourites/Bookmarks, select “Training Evaluation” • Or Navigate to ... www.ucl.ac.uk/isd-extra/staff/admin-systems/training/evaluation.shtml • Course title (from drop down list) is ... CMIS Advanced

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