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Student & Staff Timetable Experience
Transform raw timetable data into actionable insights with a comprehensive evaluation of student and staff scheduling experiences.
Student/Staff Timetable Experience Profile (STEP)
Our STEP tool assesses timetable fitness by quantifying diverse aspects of academic life into numerical metrics. These are used to generate a weighted and customisable experience score and grade, providing an objective, data-driven benchmark to diagnose performance gaps and drive equitable improvements across your institution.
STEP evaluates how schedules impact student/staff wellbeing and equity by measuring factors such as teaching day length, pedagogical variety and frequency of essential breaks and activity clashes. This moves you from simply filling rooms to actively designing a high-quality learning/teaching experience.
We apply automated metrics to every personal timetable, identifying precisely where experiences fall short. This granular data allows you to surface underlying issues and maintain scheduling fairness across all departments. Staff and student experience analysis provides a comprehensive evaluation of how timetables impact both the learner and the academic facilitator delivering the experience.
Use your results to respond to feedback and design robust policies. STEP can be linked to your timetabling software via API, enabling longitudinal historical reporting. By tracking fluctuations in scores, you gain deep insight into how specific schedule changes directly impact experience quality over time, providing a defensible basis for every scheduling decision.
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Project timeline
- Institution provides timetable & student data Escentral provides guidance on required fields/format
- Analysts process the data
- Results report Power BI format; accessible on Escentral's Datahub platform (no license required)
- Results presentation Optional
