5 ways to help faculty effectively manage teaching loads & schedules

One of the greatest problems for faculty members is to avoid high-level stress, fatigue, and burnout due to excess teaching loads in colleges and universities. Often in times of increased pressure, instructors may be firefighting to manage class schedules and find time for research, mentoring and other teaching events. 

Faculties face numerous complexities in teaching, scheduling and other academic responsibilities, resulting in having very little time for teaching, research, seminars and interaction with students. The quality of instruction in higher education decreases, leading to several repercussions on the community, in addition to demotivation of both faculties and students.

Technology reduces stress & increases student engagement 

Digital technology is a boon to educators and it is widely believed to address academic challenges. Incorporating instructional programs in the classroom with revolutionary online collaboration tools for managing courses & classrooms using videos, presentations, smartphones, tablets, and other high-tech tools can improve teaching and academic work. Faculty members can adapt to the changing college climate by effective management of schedules, evaluations, and workload using an automated timetable management system. This will improve academic quality and also instructors will have more time for reflection, reinvigoration, and interactions. 

1.  Automated Timetabling 

• Automated scheduling across multiple courses & faculties for reducing teaching loads
• Select a faculty to swap and reschedule the class to avoid student & instructor conflicts
• Move teaching events & substitute resources
• Add topics to the scheduled classes
• Cancel a scheduled class
• Assign a group of students to the scheduled classes

2.  Room Bookings

• Create custom groups and manage schedules to optimize room usage
• Allocate rooms for students and staff
• Recurring bookings and booking combined rooms with automatic email confirmation

3.  Find & Filter Schedules

• Filter schedules based on a course paper, room, faculty, session & topic
• View past, current and upcoming schedules
• View schedules on mobile devices

4.  Instant Notifications

Automatically notify users based on scheduled/rescheduled classes or events via email, SMS, and push messages from mobile devices 

5.  Custom Reports 

• Generate various types of reports
• Personalize look & behavior according to the needs
• Generate reports on modifications in planned schedules

Teaching is a continuous improvement process. Though teaching is stressful, find comfort in the awesome role of cutting-edge technologies to manage stress and loads in the lives of faculty and staff. Using a higher education management system manages pedagogical stressors positively and makes teaching schedules realistic with an easy-to-use class scheduling system.