TAMS

Simitive TAMS is a unique platform to support the planning and management of teaching delivery to enhance the student experience whilst optimising the use of resources and complying with agreements.

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Manage ALL Teaching and Assessment

TAMS is configurable to support all of the different teaching and assessment delivery for the university, its faculties, schools, departments and subjects.

  • Support all of the variations of delivery and assessment within a single system
  • Allocate people and space to meet needs
  • Control at school, department and subject level
  • Fully supports shared, team, external or fractional delivery

Simplify and manage complexity

TAMS enables detailed activities to be grouped into activity sets and/or modules and/or courses

Activities

Create individual activities with the detail required, student numbers, required dates and times and space needs.

Activity Groups

Group Activity sets for analysis

Modules

Create modules from activities and plan delivery in calendar

Courses

Create courses from activities and modules and plan delivery in calendar

Conflict Alerts

Conflicts create alerts

Calendar Planning

TAMS enables detailed calendar planning of modules and courses clearly identifying issues.

  • Conflicts alerted in real time
  • Plan at module and/or course level
  • Manage closure days
  • Staff have defined working times
  • Easily see peaks and troughs in delivery and assessment loads

Compliance Management and Reporting

TAMS provides reporting and dashboards to facilitate compliance reporting at week and year level.

  • Tolerances for delivery hours can be set at university and individual level
  • Dashboards and reports provide evidence for statutory reporting
  • Heat maps show those approaching tolerances

Planning

TAMS planning support multiple potential scenarios supporting the identification of optimal approaches.

  • Multiple versions of a year or semester allow different approaches and scenarios to be modelled
  • Impact on teaching and assessment load is easily viewed
  • Changes in delivery approach easily modelled and visualised
  • High points identifiable to facilitate balancing of student and staff load

Analytics

Built-in real-time analytics dashboards provide graphical views of progress and outcomes.

  • Display weekly load at university school, department levels
  • Allow comparative views across schools, departments and subject areas
  • See work remaining to allocate at activity, module and course level
  • See breakdown of courses by staff, activity type, load and individual activities

Data for Timetabling and WAMS

TAMS provides robust and accurate data for timetablers and workload.

  • TAMS standard Open standard APIs provide automated integration with timetabling systems
  • Provides robust, accurate, approved data for timetables.
  • Simplifies timetabling tasks as data is already consolidated and agreed
  • Allows multiple update points in the year in any direction between TAMS, WAMS and timetabling

TAMS is a very exciting step forward as a teaching allocation management solution and will address some of the key issues that are plaguing the sector”

There may be acute pressure points during the year which will make our staff’s normal workload untenable during that period. TAMS maps and forecasts these intolerable levels so we can make targeted interventions and allocate them differently.

There are some very real points in time when everything could otherwise come crashing together. This is now visible and forecastable, and we can change workloads accordingly.

Implementation and Support

Whatever stage you are at and whatever challenges you face the Simitive Team are available to help.

If you don’t know where to start talk to us about the Resource Planning Maturity Model which provides a clear pathway and milestones to meeting your needs and ambitions.

TAMS is available as a service

If you are worried about time and internal resources Simitive can administer, manage or completely outsource your TAMS management.

TAMS as a service allows you to realise the benefits quickly, even if you don’t have the resource or expertise immediately available.

All Simitive Products

Integration

Integrate with your existing systems, including HR, Finance, Student Records, Research

Support

Include Best in class support from our Team of highly experienced Team

Maintenance

Include all fixes, updates and new versions of the software

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Certified ISO 27001:2022, Cyber Essentials

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