Timetable, sorted

A rebuilt slice of ANU MyTimetable for one student’s Semester 2, 2026 enrolment. MyTT’s home page opens on a wall of notices. Your actual timetable sits behind a tab, and the calendar link sits at the bottom of the page. Here the home page is the timetable: your next class, what you still have to choose, and the week at a glance. Choosing a tutorial time is one page per course, with seats left and clashes shown before you commit. Everything is stored in SQLite, so it survives a reload and a redeploy.

What good looks like here

Quick to reach. The one thing asked for was quicker access to the timetable, so the app offers three routes, all on the home page:

• a saved “opens to” option (This week or Today), stored in the database so it holds on every device
• a web manifest, so Add to Home Screen opens it like an app
• a calendar feed (/calendar.ics) of every allocated class, weekly through the semester, skipping the 7–18 September teaching break and the Labour Day public holiday

A fourth shortcut goes to each course’s official summary on ANU Programs and Courses. It’s linked from the Quick access panel, every class’s details page, each course’s page and the course overview, and it opens in a new tab.

Optimised, measured. From the home page, choosing a tutorial is two clicks and a save. Clashes are named in words rather than implied by position, and a full class offers the wait list without costing you your current seat. At phone width the grid becomes a per-day list rather than a table that scrolls sideways.

Every class opens its full record. Click any class on the timetable, in Today, in the next-class card or on Choose times. A details page opens with MyTimetable’s own fields: type, group, activity, description, day, time, campus, location, staff, duration, dates and seats. It also lists every class date, with the next one marked, and shows the building on an OpenStreetMap map. The pin comes from ANU’s own campus map, with links to ANU’s page for that room or building and to walking directions. An activity in two parts, such as COMP3900 TutA/07 (a tutorial, then a drop-in), shows both parts.

A planner that proposes a fair week. The Planner page tries every combination of tutorial times and drops any with a clash, or a full class you don’t already hold. It ranks the rest by rules shown on the page:

• an even spread of class time across the week
• few gaps between classes
• your own preferences: no classes before or after a time, a day kept free
• fewer changes, to break ties

Lectures are read only, so they never move. Each plan shows hours per day, why it scored as it did, and which times it changes. “Use this plan” applies the whole plan or none of it. “Fair” means fair to your week. The planner can’t know other students’ needs, and alternative tutorial times are sample data, so plans that use them say so.

ANU’s real calendar. Semester 2, 2026 follows ANU’s official University Calendar 2026:

• Header: names the current period, such as “Teaching week 7”, the teaching break or the exam period.
• ANU dates: a card lists the next official dates, such as the Labour Day holiday and the last day to drop without failure, and links to all of them.
• Every week, first to last: the week view steps through all 14 weeks of the semester: 1–6, the two break weeks, then 7–12. Use the week buttons or Previous and Next. Each week shows only the classes your MyTimetable dates list for it, so week 1 has no COMP4020 or COMP3900 tutorials yet. The break weeks are empty and say so.
• Public holidays: no class runs on one, even inside a class’s date range. This applies on the grid, on the details pages and in the calendar feed.

The calendar doesn’t number weeks. Numbering 1–6 and 7–12 either side of the break follows ANU’s usual convention.

True where it claims to be. The eight allocated activities are the student’s real MyTimetable records, copied field for field on 23 September 2026. One correction: the export printed “O?Donoghue”, a lost apostrophe. ANU’s map names the building Lowitja O’Donoghue Cultural Centre. Each record’s own date list drives the week view and the calendar feed. So a Monday class disappears on 5 October, when MyTimetable doesn’t list it. Course codes, titles, class numbers and semester dates are checked against ANU Programs and Courses. Two things are sample data, hatched on the grid and labelled on their pages:

• COMP3500’s lecture, whose details weren’t provided
• the alternative tutorial times under “Choose times”, which MyTimetable only shows behind its login

COMP3500 appears in MyTT as “Computing Team Project”, but Programs and Courses 2026 calls it “Software Engineering Project”. The app uses the Programs and Courses title.

ANU’s own web style. Colours and type follow the ANU Web Style Guide. Everything is black and white, with ANU Gold #BE830E as a sparing highlight and Gold tint #F5EDDE for panels. Text is black, with Unigrey #333333 for muted lines. The typeface is Public Sans, self-hosted. The guide has no status or secondary colours, so courses are told apart by their codes and state is carried by words and weight. An event’s left edge marks a lecture (black) or a tutorial (gold). The header follows ANU’s own sites: the official ANU logo (taken unmodified from webstyle.anu.edu.au) on a white masthead, above a black navigation bar. Beside the logo, the header says this is a student prototype and not an ANU service. The footer repeats it.

Not built: sign-in and more than one student, swapping with another student, sessional (X1–X4) courses, and any connection to the real MyTT.