classroombookings is an open-source web-based room booking system for schools, independently designed and developed by me, Craig Rodway. The cloud service is provided through my sole trader business entity, onHover.
It started life in 2006 as a response to the lack of easy-to-use and cost-effective room booking systems designed specifically for UK schools. The software available at the time was limited in flexibility, prohibitively expensive, difficult to set up and configure, or just awkward and confusing to use.
Over time, a number of other projects on the market have been improved and new systems have been launched by other companies.
But classroombookings has always taken a straightforward approach to solving the problem of centralised room booking for staff in schools making it as easy as possible.
The core design aspect of classroombookings are timetable weeks, which is ideal for the common two-week alternating timetable method used by many schools. Each week in the academic year can be assigned to a timetable week, so you have full control over how calendar weeks are mapped to your timetable.
Each day is divided up into periods or lesson times, instead of time blocks of regular intervals, so that bookings follow your school day exactly.
The bookings page can be configured to use one of two display types; either on a single day or a whole week.
To help support ongoing developments and updates, I launched the cloud service in 2018. This is aimed at organisations who don't have the skills, knowledge or desire to host web-based systems themselves but would like to use classroombookings.
I want to continue adding functionality and improving it, because it is something I care a lot about.
With the support of and thanks to loyal, paying customers, I can continue to add those new features and provide updates to the software that I created and have supported for over fifteen years.