Mimosa Scheduling Software 4.13.1

Mimosa Scheduling Software 4.13.1 is a program used to schedule and  plan course in school and university, which can also help you to schedule for conferences, work-shifts and other tasks in business and industry environments where complex combination of limited resources must be efficiently assigned to timetables.

The application is fast, flexible, user-friendly and has an extremely large capacity. It has a very rich set of efficient optimization and interactive tools for all kind of scheduling tasks, and there are altogether 600 menu selections available, although you normally use only a very small fraction of them. Mimosa has become very popular and spread fast through the Internet to several schools and businesses in over 60 countries and on all continents.

The technical side of Mimosa has been kept as simple and as self-contained as possible and operates smoothly in the face of scheduling difficulties with which schools are often confronted when creating their timetables. The application is extremely versatile and robust.

Mimosa is an excellent choice for those schools or other educational institutions that find their old applications outdated, restricted or inflexible to the growing demands of their increased scheduling requirements. 

Major Benefits:

1. User-friendliness prevents you from making common mistakes; instead you receive useful hints, answers to what-if questions and you also have the context-sensitive help or access the tutorial on publisher's Openness of the software allows you to move data easily to and from other applications via numerous Clipboard selections and the text file conversion tools. Use your spreadsheet software to input data and create own reports and layouts from Mimosa data, if the numerous options of reports do not suit all your purposes. It is easy to add your own notes and data for administrative needs and also hide them from published reports.
2. Flexible architecture enables Mimosa to fit for all types of users, very easily. It supports all school and university or other academic institutions, organizations and companies, since you can easily configure the application for your special scheduling needs or apply the included templates and sample files. You can define the needed resource types and calendar schema according to the special requirements. You can also set bookings to slots and terms, lock selected courses and set protection to terms in order prevent unwanted mistakes.
3. Professional approach will ensure that you can always find the right means for every task among its 600 menu selections, including also the efficient timetable optimization tools, which enable you to create a good initial solution, minimize the gaps in an existing solution or optimize students' course selections, just to name few. Mimosa has been used to schedule timetables by thousands of institutions over several years.
4. Enormous capacity of Mimosa allows you to manage up to 300,000 timetables, 30 slots in a day of a 7-day week, 255 terms and over 8000 codes in a single small file. No third-party databases or additional software is used with Mimosa in order to guarantee maximum performance, reliability and easy maintenance, combined with low end-user price.
5. Several departments can use Mimosa simultaneously and automatically merge their files over a network, expanding its capacity even larger. The network extension is not based on any specific network architectures, and it takes into account the dynamic nature of Mimosa data files and does not block the files while others are working.

Major Features:

1. Mimosa is suitable for
   • All school types
   • Colleges
   • Conferences and trade fairs
   • Companies
   • Employee scheduling
   • Military units
   • Organizations
   • Resource management
   • Room scheduling
   • Specialized schools
   • Universities
   • User-definable resources
   • Work shift scheduling
2. Data transfer options
   • Automatic backup of files
   • Clipboard support to import & export all data
   • MS Outlook compatible
   • Text file support to import & export all data
   • Split of master file into disjoint files
   • Synchronizing files of several simultaneous users
3. General features
   • Automatic conflict checking and prevention
   • Blocking of previously assigned weeks
   • Bookings of timetable slots by all resources
   • Bookings of weeks and terms by courses
   • Calendar synchronized terms
   • Colors configurable for each course and resource
   • Combining of courses
   • Context-sensitive help
   • Course structures can be modified at each stage
   • Displaying of available resources
   • Duplicating of courses and components
   • Fonts fully configurable
   • Free course structures
   • Group and personalized timetables
   • Hidden and visible comments
   • Imitating of previous solutions and room selections
   • Language change on the fly
   • Locking of courses
   • Manually selectable rooms for each slot separately
   • Memo box allows to adding notes to each item
   • Multi-term timetabling with variable term lengths
   • Preference storing and changing on the fly
   • Protecting of weeks and terms
   • Room capacity indicators and comparison
   • Splitting of courses
   • Tree view browsing of courses
   • User interface and screen colors configurable
4. Optimization tools
   • Automatic allocating of lectures to weeks
   • Course selection optimization
   • Efficient timetable compacting optimization
   • Fixing of courses with several criteria
   • Initial assignment creation
   • Room usage optimization
   • Weighted minimization of timetable gaps
5. Reports
   • HTML versions of all reports
   • Nine report categories with tenths of variations
   • Clipboard versions of timetables and statistics
   • Timetable cells can be annotated
   • Vocabulary in reports fully customizable
6. Timetabling
   • Automatic view of all linked timetables
   • Block default length selectable
   • Book-marking and backtracking of timetable changes
   • Copying of timetables across terms and weeks
   • Fully interactive timetabling environment
   • Hints displayed for optimal assignments
   • Move of blocks (single-click, manual & automatic)
   • Redo up to last 1000 actions
   • Swap of blocks (single-click, manual & automatic)
   • Undo up to last 1000 actions
   • What if? tool when inserting lectures into timetables
7. Other tools
   • Automatic conversion from class to personalized timetables
   • Block scheduling schema
   • Capacity bottleneck locator
   • Cloning of solutions across terms
   • Cycling timetables schema
   • Intake scheduling schema
   • Slot timetables schema
   • Student selection schema
8. Maximum capacity
   • Classes, teachers, rooms, students, equipment: 8191
   • Clipboard formats to transfer data: 40
   • Code lengths: 15 characters
   • Courses: 8191
   • Days in each week: 7
   • Keyboard shortcuts: 50
   • Menu selections: 600
   • Name lengths: 63 characters
   • Resources combined in each course: 240
   • Simultaneous users from several workstations: 255
   • Slots in each day: 30
   • Sorting criteria for course and resource data: 32
   • Buttons: 250
   • Terms in a school year: 255
   • Timetables in each file: 300,000 (approx.)
9. Compatibility
   • Windows XP
   • Windows Vista (all versions)
   • Windows 2000
   • Windows 98
   • Windows ME
   • Windows 7 (beta)

Enhancements: Minor improvements

Requirements: 6 MB on disk

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