Timetable Maintenance - Timetable Group tab

Code

Code for the timetable group. This allows you to have more than one active timetable. For example, different timetables for the junior and senior school.

Description

Description of the timetable group.

Cycle Days

Number of days in the timetable cycle. For example, your organisation might have a:

• weekly rotating timetable of 5 cycle days (Monday to Friday)
• fortnightly rotating timetable of 10 cycle days (Monday to Friday, Monday to Friday)
• rotating timetable of 7 cycle days (Monday to Tuesday the following week, restarting on Wednesday to Thursday the following week and so on).

Actual Days in Week

Number of teaching days in the week. For example, a timetable that teaches Monday to Friday has 5 teaching days.

Note: This field counts the number of days in a week, not a cycle. For example, fortnightly timetables usually have 5 days in a week. However, organisations that teach classes on Saturdays would have 6 days in a week, and organisations that do not teach classes on Fridays would have 4.

Periods

Number of periods in a day. For example, 6 periods.

Max Load

Maximum number of lessons that staff can be allocated per timetable cycle. For example, 25.
Used for determining staff substitution in SynWeb.

Create Absence Events

Select to enable the creation of absence events when marking nonattendances on the Attendance window. See Attendance window in the Attendance and absence events manual.
Clear to disable the creation of absence events when marking nonattendances for certain classes. For example, when marking non-compulsory sporting events there is no need for an absence event to be created that requires follow up.