1-Entering your Basic Data

• Compare your timetable with your MIS

  Overview: There may be occasions when you wish to compare the timetable in TimeTabler with the one in your MIS (eg: Arbor or iSAMS).   Note: if you are wanting to compare TimeTabler with Nova-T, rathe...

• Import Basic Data from Nova-T into TimeTabler

  If you have your Basic Data (ie. Teachers, Subjects & Rooms) in Nova-T, and wish to import them into TimeTabler (for example, to give you a 'head-start' in moving-to / using TimeTabler) then there are...

• Timetable Migration / Transfer Service

  Service to move a timetable written in (say) Nova-T, into TimeTabler: If you need to move your timetable into TimeTabler this timetabling season, but don't think you will have time to learn TimeTabler...

• Using TimeTabler & Options with your MIS

  Linking to your MIS / Admin System TimeTabler & Options have links (and been Partners with) all the main MIS in the UK, and several others around the World.   Some of these relationships have been in ...

• Arbor and TimeTabler

  TimeTabler & Arbor have been Partners for over 10 years, and most Arbor schools use TimeTabler. We interact in a variety of ways (see below) and you can use some or all of them, according to your scho...

• Specialist Rooms

  Specialist Room Types       The problem: Most schools have specialist rooms (eg: Science Labs).   Certain lessons will require a specialist room, but they may not mind which precise room they have.   ...

• Part-timers : Employing and Timetabling them

  Employing and Timetabling Part-time staff: We were chosen to run a year-long Project on this topic for the Department for Education (DfE) in England, and many TimeTabler schools used the Project to in...

• Using Pools

  Using Teacher (or Room) Pools Pools can be used to group together similar Teachers (or for Special Resources, or for Rooms).   They are useful for subjects (or years) where you don't mind which teache...

• Scheduling a timetable with Unstaffed activities

  Unstaffed Activities Your final timetable will, of course, need to be fully staffed. However, during testing / while seeing whether your timetable will schedule, you may wish to leave some or all of y...

• Our day is based on times rather than periods

  Period Timings - an Overview: Most school days are arranged around an agreed number of 'periods'. However, if your school day does not fit neatly into periods, and uses different length lessons for di...