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Timetabling

General Timetabling, Timetable Construction, Timetable Extras, Rotations in Timetabling, Teachers & Timetabling, Rooming & Room Pools, Live Timetable Editing

42 articles in this collection
Written by Emmanuel McCormack, Sinead, and David McKeon

Viewing the Timetable after publishing - Who can view it? You decide.

Will staff be able to immediately view the timetable after it is published
Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago
General Timetabling

Timetabling Principles in 2nd Level Schools

Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago

What is meant by Spread in VSware?

Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago

Teacher Allocation and the Grid

Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago

What does Co-Scheduling mean in VSware?

Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago

What happens 'behind the scenes' when a New Timetable file is created in Timetable Construction?

The changes that are made to teaching groups when a New Timetable file is created
Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago
Timetable Construction

Enabling Access to Timetable Construction

Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago

Step 1) Setup

Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago

Step 2) Grid

Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago

Step 3) Teacher Data

Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago

Step 4) Teacher Sets

Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago

Step 5) Class Data

Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago

Step 6) Teacher

Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago

Full Timetable User Guide PDF

Timetable Construction user guide steps 1-8
Written by Sinead
Updated over a week ago

Timetable Construction User Guide Steps 1 - 6 (PDF)

Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago
Timetable Extras

Adding Meetings to Timetables

How to enter Meetings so that they will be an integral part of your timetable.
Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago

Adding an Extra Base Class

How do I add an extra base class for my increase in pupil numbers
Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago

An alternative Method to 'Fixing' Lessons on the Grid

Say where you don't want a lesson instead of telling the solver where you do want a lesson - being less restrictive with a restriction rule
Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago

Feasibility Testing

Our software tests to see if your curriculum is Infeasible
Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago

Fixing Lessons on the Grid

Fix lessons on the grid before construction
Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago

Filtered Scheduling

During analysis, we can ask the software to remove a teacher(s), room(s) or room pools(s) from selected teaching groups
Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago

Restricting Transition Year

How to prevent Transition Year from having lessons on Mondays as they are on Work Experience
Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago

Stacking Lessons - Stacked Blocks

To allow lessons with different spread requests to be part of the same block when scheduling
Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago

Teacher Statistics

A statistical breakdown of teacher assignment in relation to blocked teaching groups
Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago

Teacher Team Clashes

An analysis tool allowing you to compare the teams of teachers between any two years.
Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago

What is Teacher Allocation?

Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago
Rotations in Timetabling

Rotations Video and Guide

Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago

What are Rotations?

Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago
Teachers & Timetabling

How do I add or remove a teacher listed in the Timetable Construction file?

Remove Teacher from Timetable Construction file
Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago

Teacher Restrictions

Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago
Rooming and Room Pools

The Order in Rooming

When is rooming carried out and in what order
Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago

Rooming a Timetable

Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago

Room Pools - What are they used for?

Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago

Creating Room Pools

Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago

Adding & Removing Rooms

Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago

Preferred & Specialist Rooms

Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago
Live Timetable Editing

Manually Edit a Teacher's Timetable (during a school year)

Manually Editing a teacher timetable after publication
Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago

Make Editable v2 - Special Tuition Classes

Adding Special Tuition Classes manually to the live timetable
Written by David McKeon
Updated over a week ago

Make Editable - Adding Team Teaching

Add Team Teaching to teaching groups in the live timetable
Written by David McKeon
Updated over a week ago

Make Editable V2 - Room Changes

How to change a room in the live timetable
Written by David McKeon
Updated over a week ago

Make Editable V2 - Swap Teacher

Moving teaching groups periods to a different teacher
Written by David McKeon
Updated over a week ago
Publishing the Timetable

Publish Timetable

Publishing your completed timetable from Timetable Construction so that it can be viewed in VSware
Written by Emmanuel McCormack
Updated over a week ago