Thoughts on the class scheduling System in the Academic Affairs System

Thinking about the class scheduling system in the academic affairs system

Combining the current situation of the academic affairs scheduling system of higher vocational colleges in our country, this paper proposes an intelligent scheduling system on the basis of in-depth analysis of the existing scheduling processes, characteristics and difficulties of ordinary higher vocational colleges, which makes it very convenient for colleges and universities to realize the online management and query of courses. Informationization has brought huge challenges to the traditional class scheduling system and provided unlimited conditions and opportunities for innovation. With the widespread application of modern technology and the generation of a large number of electronic documents, it is the general trend to make full use of information technology and information equipment to inform the course arrangement process.

Information scheduling system, vocational colleges and universities

The curriculum arrangement of the academic affairs system is a typical optimization problem of multiple resource combinations. It is a comprehensive and effective plan to achieve the best teaching goals for limited teachers, teaching places and teaching time resources.

Generally speaking, arrange appropriate classrooms and teachers to complete all teaching tasks in the school at the right time.

Generally speaking, under the premise of determining the number of classes and courses for teachers to teach courses, the course arrangement must meet the following basic requirements: the teaching place should meet the requirements of the teaching task; the same teaching place and the teacher can only be arranged once at the same time.

In addition, the curriculum must also follow the objective laws of education and teaching to make all teaching tasks as scientific as possible.

Therefore, the curriculum must be optimized according to the following factors: each course is arranged at the most appropriate teaching time; the teaching time interval of the same course must be reasonable; the overall curriculum density of each class, teacher and even school should be as average as possible.

Due to the current lack of joint classes, elective courses, and teaching resources in many colleges and universities, the issue of curriculum arrangement has become more complicated.

If the schedule is generated manually, then the workload of the scheduling staff is huge, so we must find a way to automatically generate the schedule according to the rules and constraints.

Modern information technology characterized by computers and modern network technologies has greatly promoted the development of colleges and universities. The existing educational models and methods are facing unprecedented challenges. As a new form of academic management, the online curriculum has important practical significance and broad development prospects. It provides great convenience for teachers and students to obtain the latest information through the Internet.

The class scheduling problem of vocational schools has the following characteristics: courses can be taught in small classes or combined classes of different majors.；

The same teacher can teach multiple different courses; each teaching session is 2 or 3 consecutive sessions; the classroom where students are in class is not fixed, and the class scheduling stage is basically divided into：

Stage 1: Release the teaching plan：The school publishes the teaching plan to each major, and the published data is course information and the planned number of students.

Stage 2: Implement teaching tasks：Each major determines the list of teachers and the opening of courses based on its own resources and the situation of teachers. The class here is not an administrative class, but a set of students separated according to factors such as majors and courses. After the end of stage 2, the college will return to the school (course teacher class) information.

Stage 3: Arrange class time：At this stage, only the class time of the course is arranged, regardless of the location. After this stage is over, a recommended schedule for each major will be generated. The recommended schedule is the following information**: (Course teacher class time).

Stage 4: Arrange the class location：The teaching locations of all courses are uniformly arranged by the school. The purpose of the separation of stages 3 and 4 is to make full and rational use of classroom resources. Compared with other constraints, the available classroom resources can usually be considered sufficient.

The constraints that need to be met in the arrangement process include two aspects：

Hardware constraints must first be met

Second, try to meet the soft constraints as much as possible to make the course more user-friendly

Based on the experience of class scheduling and the actual situation of colleges and universities, it is assumed to simplify the problem of class scheduling：

As one of the functional modules of the new technology of network science, the computer class scheduling system should meet the following basic conditions：

Since this is an automatic computer-based arrangement system, in addition to realizing the basic functions of arrangement and query, attention should also be paid to the security of the system to avoid human attacks and damage.

Computer class scheduling enables the system to automatically call the information collected by the database, and then use the set constraints and algorithms to schedule classes.

Automatic computer generation is the main form of the entire curriculum generation process, supplemented by manual adjustment. The issue of curriculum arrangement is essentially a conflict between the five-dimensional relationship between curriculum, classroom, classroom, teacher and time.

To solve this problem reasonably, it is necessary to combine some of the above basic principles and some basic requirements. Since the curriculum arrangement administrator cannot fully understand the actual situation of each teacher, the scheduled classroom time conflicts with the teacher's personal time in study or life, resulting in frequent classroom adjustment operations in the future. Increased workload.

Therefore, an information interface can be designed to make the entire system more user-friendly.

 With the expansion of the scale of various schools and the continuous changes in various soft and hard facilities, the curriculum of schools has become more and more complex. Manual curriculum arrangements cannot adapt to the development of schools, and modern computer technology has made the original cumbersome and complex curriculum arrangements simple and convenient.

This article discusses the requirements and difficulties of curriculum issues in vocational colleges. On the basis of analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of various class scheduling algorithms and basic process requirements, a computer class scheduling plan is proposed to adapt to the further development of vocational colleges and universities.