UniTime Documentation

General

Homepage: https://www.unitime.org/
Online Demo: https://demo.unitime.org/
UniTime Highlights: PDF

Manuals

Course Timetabling Data Entry (with Banner notes link)
Course Timetabling Solver
Event Management
Instructor Scheduling
Event Manager Administrative Tasks
Student Scheduling Assistant (Purdue specific link)
Student Scheduling Dashboard Manual (Purdue specific link)
Managing Student Group Reservations
Administrative User Manual

Page Documentation

Individual pages: help.unitime.org (UniTime 4.5 or later)
- /page-name for an individual page – spaces are replaced by underscores, e.g., /instructional-offerings for Instructional Offerings page
Course Timetabling
- Solution Properties, Solver Warnings, Class Properties, Solver Status, Distribution Preferences Types and Structure, Additional Distribution Constraints

Webinars

UniTime Overview https://youtu.be/cnJjKs2GxGk
Course Timetabling with UniTime https://youtu.be/k3FAhKa3HOA [slides]
Examination Timetabling in UniTime https://youtu.be/x3xQcXwKhn4 [slides]
Student Scheduling in UniTime https://youtu.be/5zKP-uEI6fQ [slides]
Event Management in UniTime https://youtu.be/jH_YQmMKj8M [slides]

Presentations

UniTime Best Practices: link
For other presentations see https://www.unitime.org/presentations.php

Frequently Asked Questions

Administrator Documentation

Installation: help.unitime.org/installation (FAQ, Linux, Windows, Mac)
Branding: help.unitime.org/customizations
LDAP Authentication / Lookup: help.unitime.org/LDAP
CAS Authentication: help.unitime.org/CAS
OAuth2 Authentication help.unitime.org/OAuth2
Exam Naming Convention: help.unitime.org/exam-naming-convention
XML Interfaces: www.unitime.org/uct_interfaces.php
UniTime APIs: help.unitime.org/manuals/api
UniTime Exports: help.unitime.org/manuals/exports

Distribution

Latest Release: https://github.com/UniTime/unitime/releases/latest
Nightly Builds: https://builds.unitime.org
Release Notes:
- UniTime 4.8 builds.unitime.org/UniTime4.8/Release-Notes.xml
- UniTime 4.9 builds.unitime.org/UniTime4.9/Release-Notes.xml

Development Documentation

GitHub: https://github.com/UniTime/unitime (master branch)
Hibernate Configuration Files: link (*.hbm.xml, data model)
Using Eclipse: https://help.unitime.org/eclipse
Constraint solver:
- GitHub: https://github.com/UniTime/cpsolver
- JavaDoc: www.unitime.org/api/cpsolver-1.3
- Examples: www.unitime.org/cpsolver_examples.php (including brief description of the course timetabling, examination timetabling, and student sectioning problems, XML data format, configuration, and data benchmarks)
- PhD thesis: www.unitime.org/papers/phd05.pdf (especially sections 4.2, 4.3, 5.1, 6.3, and appendix A)
- Timetabling competition: ITC2007, ITC2019

Research Publications

www.unitime.org/publications.php
Most interesting:
- Complex university course timetabling (course timetabling)
- Real-life examination timetabling (examination timetabling)
- Comprehensive approach to student sectioning (student sectioning)
- Minimal perturbation problem in course timetabling
- Real-life curriculum-based timetabling with elective courses and course sections

UniTime Side: https://github.com/UniTime/unitime-addons (build Instructions: link)
Banner Side: https://ecommunities.ellucian.com/thread/75380
UniTime Configuration for Student Scheduling

User Contributed Documentation

Purdue University
- Event Management Instructions: PDF
- UniTime Data Entry Manual: PDF
- Student Scheduling Assistant: PDF
- Scheduling Assistant Registration FAQ PDF
- Course Requests: link
Masaryk University (in Czech)
- Nastavení vstupních dat: link
- Překódování předmětů v UniTime skrze Sdružené předměty: link
- Kontrola vstupních dat v UniTime pomocí řešiče: link
- Kontrola hotového rozvrhu: link