University timetabling problem refers to the scheduling of courses to proper rooms and available timeslots and assigning course to faculty with certain constraints. This is an important administrative task that has to be performed in an individual department every semester. For some departments in several universities with a large student population, a block scheduling is arranged. The goal is to help students choose correct combination of course schedules, to have a faster enrollment process and to logically group students into blocks or sections. This study has developed a system model to simultaneously process block scheduling and course-faculty assignment based on identified soft and hard constraints. Constraints were gathered from Computer Science, Languages and Literature and Psychology Departments of the University of San Carlos. The experimental results show a very satisfactory performance of the system model with 96.24% of courses assigned successfully.

course-faculty assignment, course scheduling, University timetabling, block scheduling, enrollment.