The goal of research is to develop an automated system forming the volume of educational work for university departments. Problems of research: to consider the design stages of automated system of forming the volume of educational work for departments at institution of higher education. The object of research is a processes automation in the institution of higher education. The subject of research is an automation of the documentation preparation processes in educational department. In this paper was conducted analyze, generalization and systematization of studies on automating the process of forming the volume of educational work for departments at institution of higher education. The results of the study is an automated system of forming the volume of educational work for departments at institution of higher education. The developed system can be used as special purpose software.