Teaching Allocation Management
Plan and manage teaching delivery, optimised and compliant.
Simitive TAMS is a unique platform to support the planning and management of teaching delivery, enhancing the student experience while 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.
02
Simplify and manage complexity
TAMS enables detailed activities to be grouped into activity sets and modules and courses.
Activities
Create individual activities with 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 in real time.
03
Analytics
Built-in real-time analytics dashboards provide graphical views of progress and outcomes.
- Display weekly load at university, school and 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.
04
Data for timetabling and WAMS
TAMS provides robust and accurate data for timetablers and workload.
- 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 between TAMS, WAMS and timetabling.
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Calendar planning
TAMS enables detailed calendar planning of modules and courses, clearly identifying issues.
- Conflicts alerted in real time.
- Plan at module and course level.
- Manage closure days.
- Staff have defined working times.
- Easily see peaks and troughs in delivery and assessment loads.
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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.
In their words
What universities tell us about TAMS.
There may be acute pressure points during the year which will make our staff's normal workload untenable. 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.
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.
Implementation
Get up and running with confidence.
Implementation and support
Whatever stage you are at and whatever challenges you face, the Simitive team is 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.
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