Despite common belief, however, Student Services is really not trying to torture and manipulate you. They are doing the best they can. However, conventional planning of exam schedules can only go so far. No matter what the administration does to create a fair, easy to work with schedule, there are going to be unforeseen consequences. These consequences may not be apparent to the planner, but they are all top real to the students who take the exams.

Obviously, a tool, which could help these planners visualize, the problems with a proposed schedule would be of enormous use to them. If this tool was able to detect conflicts before a schedule is set in stone, ample effort can be diverted to solving these specific problems, leading to a much better final exam schedule.

The aim of this project is to design and build a program for Student Services to visually analyze different final exam schedules to minimize conflicts of overlapping, close and clustered exams and provide a solution to the problem.

Moreover, the product can be expand by adding more information about the room and building where the exams take place and optimize the schedule automatically. In addition all the time slots, courses and other parameters can be made customizable in order the product to be used by other colleges as well.

By Ronald Pasko

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