A GENERAL EXAMINATION SCHEDULING SYSTEM

Scheduling examinations is a problem in virtually every high school, c ollege, and university. The basic challenge is to schedule examination s over a limited time period so as to avoid conflicts and to satisfy a number of side constraints. Over 10 years, we have developed EXAMINE, a robust and flexible examination scheduling system suited to the nee ds of most educational institutions. EXAMINE runs on a PC and is fast and user-friendly. It provides a choice of feasible schedules and solu tions in which examinations are well spread out for most students. It handles requirements regarding the proximity of a student's exams, roo m or time availability, and other factors. Over the past two years, th e University of Toronto's engineering faculty and Carleton University have collaborated with us to develop a software package, which has bee n implemented at both institutions.