Outdated Indoor Maps
Indoor maps are great... until someone forgets to keep them updated.
Paul Briërley
Articles on technology, scheduling and higher education.
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Reports instead of travel tables
Travel Tables allow us to avoid staff and students having to make impossible journeys across campus, but they are time consuming to run. This article looks at how some simple reports can fulfil the role of travel tables when building a timetable.
Self Solving Timetables?
AI has potential for helping us construct timetables, but I was wondering if the simpler logic found in computer games might actually be sufficient to do the job.
Pathfinding with GameplayKit
A brief guide to how I finally got pathfinding to work using GameplayKit for a top down game using Swift.
Calculating Student Pathways in Excel
New functions added in Excel for Microsoft 365 make it easier than ever before for timetablers to calculate the numbers of students enrolled on specific combinations of courses units / modules.
Timetable Contact Tracing
During the pandemic it was critical to identify students who had been in contact with those who had tested positive for COVID-19. This article provides some resources for performing contact tracing on timetable data from Syllabus+.
Programme Pathway Combinations with Combo Counter
A conversation about how to illustrate the impact simple changes to a curriculum offering can have on the number of possible pathways through a degree programme resulted in me writing the Combo Counter app for iOS.