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Detailed Feature Breakdown
Create Multiple Timetable Versions
• Functionality: For projects that require a timetable, a new version can easily be created using the same project entities.
• Benefits: All entities are contained within a project, enabling the same data to be used for variations of the timetable. A new timetable can be added for the same project with a different period structure.
Relationships Page
• Functionality: Allows users to add staff and rooms to subjects to form relationships.
• Benefits: Subject controls relationships on the curriculum, and staff can be added to their main subjects. Rooms can be added to subjects, and multiple staff can be assigned to “share” a room.
Subject Information Page
• Functionality: Enables users to add the number of periods/classes by subject and year group. Creates a preview for each Year Group to identify total staffing/rooming requirements.
• Benefits: Allows for pre-planning of staff requirements using subjects, periods, and the number of classes. Enables comparison of total periods by year group added against the period cycle count.
Staffing Page
• Functionality: Enables adjustment of overall contact time, allows allocation of staff contact time to year groups by subject, and provides a contact time summary.
• Benefits: Enables users to review available contact time for subjects/ departments/staff and compare against subject information requirements by year group. It improves conflict identification processes.
Review Page
• Functionality: Allows users to identify understaffed year groups, create a band distribution for classes, and generate blocks for the curriculum plan.
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• Benefits: Users can test selected elements of the timetable scheduling before applying it, offering improvements where appropriate.
Timetable Promotion
• Functionality: Creates a new project using an existing project’s timetable and promotes selected year groups.
• Benefits: Easy update of entities for the next academic year with minimal effort, retaining previous relationships and staffing configurations.
• Benefits: Users can spot issues for staffing and subjects across all year groups before generating blocks. Blocks can be generated automatically and added to the curriculum plan for each year group.
Curriculum Plan
• Functionality: Displays blocks and bands by year group and tracks availability by staff/room subject, with conflict status managed according to type.
• Benefits: Filtering by Year Group refines entities for ease of use. Staff and Room side panels display availability visually, including real or advisory conflicts. Blocks in Curriculum mode enable easy editing.
Drag and Drop Functionality
• Functionality: Allows users to drag and drop entities from the side panel into the curriculum plan or blocks.
• Benefits: Users can easily manually assign subjects, staff, or rooms into blocks on the curriculum plan or scheduling page, resolving conflicts by dragging classes into free staff or room slots.
Flexible Auto Scheduling
• Functionality: Allows partial or full scheduling and provides suggestions for improving the schedule.
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