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 yo...
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 Batc...
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 ...
Adding an Activity to a Batch There are several types of Activity that you can add to a Batch, and these buttons (sometimes called the 'Activity Wizards') help you to add a particular type of Activit...
The SuperBatch In TimeTabler, you can create and maintain as many different Activity Batches as you like - this is useful in performing what if..? tests, in maintaining multiple timetable Schedules, ...
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 defin...
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 for...
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 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'...
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...