NOVA T - Creating an extra period for one year group only

[SandraJ]

Hi all, I am very new to timetabling having just completed the training. I need to schedule 2 subjects in Year 12 in an after school session. Effectively I need to create a Period 6 (currently 5 period, 10 day cycle). I cannot see how to do this for year12 only. Any help would be appreciated! Many thanks.

[RootsSchImp]

Hi Sandra,

 

Periods exist independent of what goes in them, so you basically have to make p6 for everyone.

 

Obviously you then have to take steps to make sure you don't put any other years lessons there. You can do this by right clicking on the period in the cycle screen, giving it a period type of 1 then right clicking on the y12 block in model and giving that the same period type.

 

That's a bit of faff tho, so i would recommend finishing the timetable except the after school lessons, then adding the extra period and scheduling the left over classes.

 

Don't forget you need to export the timetable cycle before you can export the timetable if you've added periods.

 

Good luck

 

Ed

[Cache]

We do this for lunch and after school lessons, there's a special type of block you can create which is for Blanking Codes.

 

We create a blanking code for all year groups and then schedule those blanking codes into the lessons that aren't applicable for all the other year groups and lock them with a hard lock. We then schedule the extra lesson and lock that in a hard lock too, if you are extending the block for that subject to accommodate the extra lesson don't forget that within that block you will need to blank and lock the extra cells within the block when you build it so that your timetable doesn't try to move any other lessons into that afterschool lesson too (normally only applicable when you come to schedule the timetable when it's being written)