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3-Scheduling your timetable

  • Quality Report

    There is usually more than one timetable that you could create, for any given curriculum / starting point.  But they will not all be of the same Quality. At any time during scheduling, and certainly a...

  • Double-booked Rooms

    A 'double-booked room' is one that has 2 (or more) teachers in it, in the same period. Sometimes you may want/mean a room to be double-booked (eg: 2 PE teachers are both in the Gym, looking after Year...

  • 'Multi-Access' or 'Multi-User'

    'Multi-Access' and 'Multi-User' We find that occasionally confusion can arise between these two terms - and some third-party HelpDesks may confuse/conflate them. The first is easily possible; the seco...

  • Student Experience Report

    Student Experience The Student Experience Report allows you to review a year of students, and see how many different teachers and rooms, etc, the students are likely to see in a given week. This can b...

  • Clearing Excluded / Blocked periods

    An excluded (or blocked) period is one you have marked as not being able to contain any lessons.   Q    I am in the middle of scheduling**, but I want to clear periods that I blanked off / excluded / ...

  • How can I find the best time for a meeting ?

    How can I find the best time in the week for a Meeting? On the Staff Timetable Screen (see section F12 in your Manual), click on the Teachers button (at the bottom of the screen). A sub-screen appears...

  • Timetabling for Social Distancing

    During the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic, if you want some hints & tips about how to timetable for social distancing, see the special PDF we have prepared, at: https://www.timetabler.com/covid-19/  At...

  • 'Edit' button at scheduling

    How to use the Edit button to edit the selected outstanding Activity (on the Visual Builder screen) Question: I want to change an activity while I am scheduling.  ie. after I have loaded the batch int...

  • Reasons for 'Red error report' when you close a Schedule

    When you Close a Schedule you will sometimes be shown a Report which may contain Red, Blue and Green messages. Possible Reasons: The usual reason for the Red error messages is one (or more) of the fol...

  • How can I Clone a Schedule in TimeTabler ?

    The advantages of cloning, and the way of doing it, are described in Section H27 in your Manual. Here is a summary of the steps: To make a Clone, go to the List of Schedules Screen. At the bottom of t...