Adding a (Registration) Period

If you wish to include a Registration period (or Break, Lunch, Assembly periods) on your timetable, there is more than one way of doing it.

You can have periods included in your day, which represent these things.  Or (for break & lunch) you can just include your teaching periods, but assign markers between your teaching periods to say "there's a break here, lunch here".   If you decide to have actual periods, you can include them from the start, or (usually better) just add them at the end of scheduling.

In choosing the best Style for you, you should consider:
-- If it's for a Printout, whether you want the Registration period to be explicit or not,
-- If it's for exporting to an MIS, whether your MIS requires the Registration period to be explicit or not explicit,
-- whether you have some Double-period lessons that you don't want to go across a Break and/or Lunch (if you do, then the break- and lunch-markers ... combined with whether you mark your Double as D or d or 2 ... control where your Double lessons can go [see the Manual, or ask us].

The 5 main Printout Styles are explained in detail in this PDF which you can download.

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Note also:

  1.   Adding registration to just some of the days     (during scheduling)

To add a period into 2 out of the 5 days, if you have started scheduling then:

• Go to "Check & Tidy" and select "Add a period"
• Follow the on-screen instructions to add the new period.
• On the "School Structure -> Shape" screen, exclude the period from the days when it isn't required (those periods will change red).

Then:

• Go to "Schedule -> Make a Global change to the Schedule" and select "Change some Blocked periods".
• Highlight your Schedule, and follow the instructions.

This will exclude those periods on your chosen schedule.  If labelling of the periods is now mis-aligned then you can correct this from "Check & Tidy -> Edit day & Period labels".

  2.   Is there another way of excluding these periods from my printouts ?

Go to “Customize -> Day & Period labels” … and select “Period labels” at the top.
At the bottom of that screen, it explains how you can use a label of “*D” to omit/hide a period.

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See also the article in this KnowledgeBase titled 'How do I include a PSHE or Registration period ?'.