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Work steps



→ Weekly structure

At this stage, you design the structure of the timetable, inserting the number of weekly working days and the maximum number of periods per day, and other preference parameters.

→ Groups or Grades or Terms

Groups or grades or terms are defined with description (3A, 4B , Grade 11,...), number of weekly periods.

→Teachers

Are entered name and number of periods per week, can be associated subjects.

→Lessons or courses

In this step you define the lessons or courses, primarily by combining the teacher and the group or grade ore term, it is possible, but not required, to enter the subject, you can also enter a second teacher (co-teacher), you can define lessons or courses with durations longer than 1 period.

→Constraints

There are three types of constraints: teacher's constraints, group's constraints or grade's constraints, global constraints, all assignable with Graphic User Interface.

→Automatic generation

After finishing the above steps, you can start the timetable automatic generation that will find the right time-slot for the lessons or courses, that satisfies all the constraints and minimize the teacher's idle periods (gaps) and optimize other variables such as the duration of the workday of teachers.

→Timetable manual editing and constraints

The lessons or courses assigned to the group or grades can be manually moved and changed using a graphical interface with drag&drop capability, the application is the same as that allows the entry / modification of the constraints and of the teachers / groups or grades

→Save/Load files

The data relating to teachers, groups or grades, lessons or courses, constraints, schedules generated, are always stored online automatically, but if you want to keep a copy to reload after editing, then you can use the save function.
The files are stored on the web servers, therefore are always available regardless of the computer used.
Save and load function are NOT available for the users with the only basic registration.

→Pdf prints

You have several options for printing the schedule of the teachers and the schedule of groups or grades.
The printing functions are NOT available for the users with the only basic registration.