The Mission

Most scheduling tools are built for the administrators at the top. We build for the people who actually live with the timetable week to week, the coordinators and schedulers who feel every clash and every last-minute change. Our mission is to make their work faster, clearer, and a lot less painful, starting with one department and growing from there.

The Challenge

University course scheduling runs on spreadsheets, email threads, and the patience of a few people who hold the whole picture in their heads. Every change, like a swapped room, a sick lecturer, or a new cohort, sets off knock-on effects across hundreds of small details, and most of that work still happens by hand. The result is late conflicts, rooms that don't fit the group, confusion about which version is current, and schedulers spending the week putting out fires instead of planning ahead. The tools that already exist for this (Semestry, Untis, TimeEdit) are built for central administration. The people who live with the schedule week to week, like course coordinators, programme leads, and the schedulers themselves, are left with whatever the central tool allows. That is where the friction is, and that is the gap nobody serves well.

The solution

Zimunim is a web-based scheduling tool built with the people who do the work, not over their heads. It does two things. First, it produces a workable timetable from the rules (rooms, staff, cohorts, availability). Second, it gives the scheduling team a calendar they can read, edit, and test changes on without breaking anything. We are not replacing the central system. We are the layer the scheduling team actually uses day to day.