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To aid in Course design, initially you may wish to allow students to select from lists of subjects as they wish. This function will analyse the combinations of subjects that students have chosen and display them in order of popularity. Using these subject combinations courses may be designed on the most popular selections.
Casual replacement teachers are a special case of normal staff data, but with two special reports. Enter the data as for other staff. Note that there is only one Active status and it is set so that casual teachers do not influence the production of timetables.
1. Casual replacement teacher availability.
This report will identify the casual replacement teachers that are available for a given
session and day of the week. You can then assign the appropriate teacher to the
session(s).
From within this report you can show the availability of the selected teacher.
2. Casual replacement teacher usage.
For a selected teacher this report will show the usage (assignments). The usage may be
exported to an ‘Excel’ spreadsheet.
You can enter as many sessions in a day as you wish. You are only restricted in that each day must have the same number of sessions. If you do not define a session on a particular day no classes will be allocated to that session. You can also define a session and make it available or unavailable as required.
Contiguous classes: It is often a requirement to ensure that a class occupies two or more adjacent sessions. The number of sessions per week must be a multiple of the number of contiguous sessions.
Number of sessions per week: This is the total number of sessions per week. The number of sessions per week must be a multiple of the number of contiguous sessions.
Session in the week: This enables you to force Timetable Genius to set a specific session for up to eight sessions in the week. If the number of sessions in the week is, for example 4, and the number of contiguous sessions is 2, then you would be able to set two start sessions.