March 12, 2001
Online calendar system approved
CruzTime, a new, online calendar service for faculty and staff, has been approved
for the UCSC campus. Users will be able to attend training and begin using the CruzTime
system by fall quarter. A registration process will be announced later this spring.
CruzTime will be operated by Communications and Technology Services (CATS) for campus
units. Using the CorporateTime product, CruzTime automates calendar management and
meeting scheduling, while helping departments manage and share resources such as
conference rooms and projectors.
CorporateTime was selected by a campus task force and approved by the campus Information Technology Committee as the product best suited to supporting scheduling of meetings.
It is compatible with Macintosh, Windows, and Unix desktops, and the web. CorporateTime is a full-featured calendaring system that provides users with security, task list management, contact management, group scheduling and more.
The campus calendaring project was created to develop a consensus on a personal
calendaring system at UCSC. Representatives from the four academic divisions and
three administrative divisions have worked over the last two years to assess and
recommend a standard software package for the campus.
Many UCSC departments now manage their office calendars using incompatible scheduling
systems. CruzTime provides a common infrastructure for calendar services available
to any units wishing to participate.
The focus of CruzTime is on personal calendars rather than
classroom scheduling or event scheduling, each of which has
support systems already in place.
Information about project implementation, costs, training and support, planning documents
and project history are available on the web.
