purplecabbage

Hi all, I hope you can help me. We currently use Nova T6 and SIMS and I’m having some timetabling problems; I think the issue may be SIMS-related. When I try to export a slightly updated timetable from Nova to SIMS, I’m getting a message in Nova that reads ‘Some existing classes clash with other existing timetabled classes (4 instances)’. I think this is SIMS-related because if I try to export an older version of the timetable (for instance one from September), I get the same message – suggesting this isn’t something new I’ve added, but rather something from the SIMS end. I wonder if anyone can suggest where I can look on SIMS (or in Nova) to see what could be blocking a transfer? I can't see anyone else having raised this problem … so I’m a bit stuck! Thanks!

I thought I'd send a belated reply to say that what I've done over the last few years (since originally posting this) is to build a five period day first, and then add in split periods once the essentials are all confirmed. In terms of JuliaS's question, I can then timetable lower school lunch as 4a and upper school lunch as 4b; upper school have lessons during 4a and lower school have lessons during 4b.

Hi everyone, I'm a long time beneficiary of edugeek and haven't posted before so firstly BIG THANKS! And secondly, please help! I am timetabling for next year and have come up with similar problems to the above. Our timetable has been five periods this year, but next year it will be split at several points - morning break and lunch - so that at two points in the day, younger students are at break whilst older students are in a lesson (and then vice versa). I can build and schedule blocks but can't make the timetable see that one of the potential break periods needs to be automatically protected. The only ways around I can see are (i) To create a seven period day and use blanking codes for the break. In 'Cycle', assign two of the morning periods as potential breaks and two as potential lunches, and then manually timetable in staff breaks - but this would require me to input their breaks whilst scheduling blocks which would be very inflexible and prevent blocks being moved easily. (ii) To create a five period day - but this then doesn't recognise when double lessons are permissible (they're at different times for the younger students to the older ones). Any help would be enormously gratefully received!