Timetabling Advice / NovaT / No Registration Groups

[Ghostdancing]

The Pastoral Team at my secondary school is considering removing 'Registration Groups'.

 

To replace this they have created a 'Coaching Group' setup, which is only timetabled once on a Monday Morning, where their AM registration mark will be collected.

 

The other four days of the week, students walk straight into Lesson One, where their AM registration mark will be collected.

 

Furthermore, these coaching groups will not be based on traditional tutor groups, but vertical groups consisting of students from year 7 up to 11.

 

Even more, to make matters slightly more complicated, we have already setup next years academic structure and promotions based on last year, as you would.

 

Sorry, we are throwing this out here for some advice and hopefully an open discussion on it's viability.

 

Screen shot below of a first steps from NovaT and SQL export.

 

[PotNoodleTech]

It is almost as if they have decided to run a bet on making the timetablers life as difficult and complicated as humanly possible!

[Linfit]

Looking at that cycle, is the Co lesson after school compulsory ?

If it is you have a basic 5 period day, with period 1 on a Mon as a coaching lesson rather than a "normal" lesson. If that is the case, then the basic cycle is not a problem. Its just a standard 5 period day.

If you want to have different numbers of lessons on different days of the cycle, that's slightly harder, but do-able - you add the extra period to each day but flag it as Set Exclusive, so no classes are scheduled in it.