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This paper discusses our work on the development of an interactive multi-agent system that automates university course allocation. The system receives as input the courses to be offered in a particular semester, their respective credit units and appropriately allocate it to competent lecturers based on their teaching profile. The system is composed of two agent types-The administrator agent and the lecturer agents which were the final concrete artifacts of the system. Four roles (allocation handler, environment monitor, administrator assistant and lecturer assistant) were discovered in the analysis stage. However, the allocation handler and environment monitor were subsumed by the administrator and lecturer agents at the design stage. The elicitation, analysis, design to implementation were quite natural. This proves Agent-Based Software Engineering (ABSE) as a viable paradigm. We used GAIA methodology for analysis and design and Java Agent DEvelopment (JADE) framework for implementation.