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...
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' 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 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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...