Importing your timetable

Your timetable is the foundation. Shared free time, course feeds and syllabus analysis all depend on it.

Steps

1. Export an .ics file from your school’s schedule system.

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   Where to export .ics in the school's schedule system

2. Open the Timetable page in RUFREE, pick the term, and upload the file.

   Picking the right term matters: RUFREE keeps only the meetings that fall inside that term’s date range. If nothing matches you get “no meetings from this term were found”, which almost always means the wrong term was selected.

3. Review the differences.

   If the term already has a timetable, RUFREE shows you what is added, changed or gone before anything is saved.

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   The difference between the new file and your current timetable

4. Save, and choose whether to activate it.

   If you do not activate it, the version is archived and you can switch to it later.

Two things to check afterwards

Caution

• Time zone. Your account defaults to America/Toronto. If every class is off by the same few hours, fix the time zone in settings rather than editing classes.
• Repeats and exceptions. Recurring classes and exceptions such as cancellations are expanded into individual meetings. Spot-check a few weeks, especially around Reading Week.

How much fits in one import

A single version holds at most 5000 events. A normal term is nowhere near that, so hitting the limit usually means the export covered every term instead of one.

Events you add by hand

Manual events are stored separately from imported classes. Re-importing your timetable does not touch them, and they do not change when you switch versions.