Miller2 Posted March 21, 2017 Posted March 21, 2017 (edited) Hi there. I've been timetabling and doing cover for 10 years now and I think I already know the answer but thought I'd ask anyway. Our school regularly has an early lunch when events are on which means the times of lessons on cover, and the cover slips are wrong as it is not what is timetabled on a normal day Our normal day is as follows period 4: 12:20 - 13:20 lunch: 13:20 - 14:00 period 5: 14:00 - 15:00 When we have an early lunch day it is as follows: lunch: 12:20 - 13:00 period 4: 13:00 - 14:00 period 5: 14:00 - 15:00 If I wanted to change these times as a one off, is the only way of doing this to change the cycle in Nova T6 and transfer the cycle, then the timetable to sims and then apply it and link it up with lesson monitor again (ie set the first day it applies etc)? Then change it all back again for the following day? I wish they could have an option in cover to change times. I'd only have to alter the period 4 times from 12:20 - 13:20 to 13:00 - 14:00. At the moment on Friday I need to cover people from 13:30. This is half way through period 4 since we are doing an early lunch that day, but on cover I have to do it starting at 12:50 as that is the time that halfway through period 4 is actually timetabled (if I did it from 13:30 - 14:00 it would come up with no cover as that is when lunch would normally fall). It's a pain when booking cover, plus all the cover slips print with the wrong times on for external supply staff and it just causes me a general headache. Am I right in thinking that there's bog all I can do about it unless I want to go faffing around with the cycle? I could do that but it's not worth the messing about for one day only. Edited March 21, 2017 by Miller2
RootsSchImp Posted March 22, 2017 Posted March 22, 2017 Hi, one solution is to create an extra period, so you have period 4 at 12:20 then period 4a at 13h. Then make all period 4 lessons into 2 singles 4a and 4 and tell lesson monitor to disregard 4a. However, be very careful if you make the change mid year as it could wipe all your period lesson attendance data
Miller2 Posted March 22, 2017 Author Posted March 22, 2017 That's way too much faff just for the sake of a one off period I think. I'll leave it and just manually write on all the cover slips the times etc.
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