2-Entering your Activities in Batches

• Ways to staff a Lesson

  Possible ways to Staff a Lesson There are 4 ways of staffing a lesson (ie: telling TimeTabler which teacher will take this group/lesson):  1   With a specific teacher: select the specific teacher you ...

• How can I check my Batches, before scheduling?

  Checking your Activity Batches When you've typed your data for a Year-group into a Batch, you should Test it, to check that the data in the Batch is entered correctly, before you start using the Batch...

• How do I draw a Curriculum Diagram?

  The Curriculum Diagram The Curriculum Diagram is a very important part of planning your timetable.  It tells you (and anyone else studying it), exactly what subjects / teachers / lessons / groupings n...

• Contact Ratio

  Teacher Contact Ratio       Overview The (Teacher) Contact Ratio (CR or 'c') of a curriculum or timetable, is a measure of how much of all your teachers' time is spent teaching lessons.   It is define...

• Different Teaching Group styles

  My school uses 2 (or more) different styles of Teaching Group Name (TGN): If you have more than one ‘standard style’ of TGN in your school (eg. one style for years 7-11 and another for your sixth form...

• How many Batches should I use?

  Suggestions on how to set-up your Activity Batches       How many Batches should I create ?  Up to 20 activity batches can be loaded into any given schedule. But most people use only 6 to 9 Batches.  ...

• Zarraga's Rule

  Zarraga's Rule Zarraga's Rule can be employed on your Curriculum before you start scheduling, and is a complex but often useful analysis of how your teacher-teams interact between your 'Pure classes' ...

• Convert a Pure Activity to a Block

  Change 'Pure' to 'Block'   Q      How do I convert an existing “pure class” activity (one group/subject) into a “block” (2+ groups or subjects) ?   A     One way is to delete and enter again ... but a...

• Shared Resources (between schools)

  Sharing Resources If you are a MAT**, Consortium, Federation, or other Group of schools, you may share resources between schools. We have many MATs or School-Groups who use TimeTabler … so it is commo...

• Timetabling Triple Science

  Triple Science Triple Science (also known as 'Separate Sciences' or 'Single Sciences') is a popular choice for GCSE students in England and around the World.   When timetabling it, it is fairly common...