3-Scheduling your timetable

• Doing a 'nine-and-a-half' timetable

  Starting the 2-year GCSE courses in the summer term of Year 9 (sometimes called a 'nine-and-a-half' timetable) Many schools wish to re-vamp the timetable from early June onwards, so that Year 9 can st...

• Commuting between sites

  Commuting / Travel In a split-site school or college, you need to allow time for staff and/or students to move between sites, and avoid any 'instant commuting'. Here are 4 common scenarios:  1    In o...

• How do I include a Registration or PSHE period on the timetable?

  Registration or PSHE   Q.    How can a Registration period [Tutor period, Form period] be included on the timetable ...when I don't know yet who the Tutors are going to be? Or how can I include a fixe...

• 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 t...

• 'What if...?' investigations using TimeTabler

  What if ...? If you or your colleagues are proposing a change to the school's curriculum or timetable structure then it is usually a good idea to do a What if....? trial run in TimeTabler. The propose...

• Why can't I put a lesson where I want it to go?

  There will be a very good reason for this. To see what the reason is, just click on any period in the 'dot row' (.) on the Class Timetable Strip or on the Staff Timetable Strip - here is an example: T...

• I'm scheduling and I'm stuck. What can I do?

  If you have a 'kickout' lesson (one that apparently doesn't fit anywhere on your timetable), see this article for the possible solutions.   ...