NOVA t6 - different cycles for different year groups

[Zcapw97]

Hi all,

 

my school has recently become a through school. The problem is that the primary school operates a completely different cycle to the secondary part, specifically that there are a different number of periods and that the period lengths are different.

 

Does anyone have a way of putting this into NOVA on a single timetable (the through school uses a single version of SIMs across the entire school). At present the primary timetable does not get added to SIMs but there is a strong desire for this to change.

 

The only ways that I can see to even get started on this are to ignore the lesson timings aspect and just build in extra periods to accommodate the different number of periods (using period types where necessary) but this has consequences for SIMs and how it reports and reads different parts.

 

Another would be to use a small time length as a period (i.e. 10min) and work from there but that will be a nightmare for allocations and reporting.

 

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!

 

Thanks

[bobsmith]

I'd love to say there's an easy way of doing this in Nova but there isn't.

 

SIMS do offer a fudge called SIMS Multiple Timetables - but we tried it and it didn't meet our requirements at all.

 

It may work better for you.

 

The solution which would work (100%) would be to change MIS and use one that doesn't work the way Nova does! Facility Scheduler happily runs different timetable timings for different years.

[Banjo]

I'd love to say there's an easy way of doing this in Nova but there isn't.

 

SIMS do offer a fudge called SIMS Multiple Timetables - but we tried it and it didn't meet our requirements at all.

 

It may work better for you.

 

The solution which would work (100%) would be to change MIS and use one that doesn't work the way Nova does! Facility Scheduler happily runs different timetable timings for different years.

 

LOL - I think you’re playing very loose and fast with the word 'happily' :-)

 

The easy answer is why are you TT the primary phase? 99.9% of primary schools don't go near any sort of timetabling software as most of it’s the curriculum is driven from the teachers medium term plans. You would have an unfeasible amount of rotations/carousels and changes, you wouldn't be able to keep up.

 

I would talk to the HOS for the primary phase. I think you (or someone) is creating a lot of unnecessary work.