UniTime Sample Support Packages
To provide a better idea how the services could be bundled, we offer these three sample packages. If you are interested in any of these packages, please, contact us for a price estimate. The price for a package can be discounted over our standard hourly rates.
Consultation Package
Target customer: An institution independently evaluating/implementing UniTime
Services offered:
  • Guidance for institutions who have downloaded and installed UniTime and would like to save time and other resources by receiving assistance from an experienced UniTime consultant
    • Up to about 40 hours of consultant’s work over a period of two to six months
    • The institution and the consultant would work together to decide which modules of UniTime are best suited to the institution’s needs, how to model the institution with UniTime, and how to best set up an academic session, input data, application properties and solver parameters
    • Most of the set-up and data entry would be done by the institution, the consultant would make recommendations based on his/her experience and expertise
Evaluation Package
Target customer: An institution that wants to evaluate UniTime
Services offered:
  • Recommendations as to which modules of UniTime would be best suited to the institution and how they would fit with existing business practices
  • Mapping institutional data with data required by UniTime
  • Setting up the UniTime system for the institution using our resources (unless the institution prefers to use their machine)
  • Setting up a new academic session, importing course timetabling data provided by the institution
  • Creating a first sample timetable for the institution
  • Fine tuning the input data, application properties and solver parameters to best fit the institution
Implementation Package
Target customer: An institution that has decided to use UniTime
Services offered:
  • Recommendations as to which modules of UniTime would be best suited to the institution and how they would fit with existing business practices
  • Mapping institutional data with data required by UniTime
  • Setting up the UniTime system for the institution using the institution’s resources
  • Setting up a new academic session, importing course timetabling data provided by the institution
  • Creating a first sample timetable for the institution
  • Fine tuning the input data, application properties and solver parameters to best fit the institution
  • Working with the institution up to the first production timetable
  • Knowledge transfer to a person at the institution, limited support for the next semester’s timetabling

If any work should be done on site, travel costs will be charged to the institution.