CaterinaAnna

I know about this option and can access it, but it doesn't give me the option of 'printing' the timetable for a year/band or some other useful options that were in T4 (eg free staff, free rooms). Nor do I know how to print it straight to a spreadsheet from that window - I have to go through Acrobat or Document Writer, both of which keep the page formatting which I then need to unpick. Any suggestions welcome, because next year's timetable is not going to be swung across into T4, but please remember I'm not very clever nor am I the network manager. That means that, for example, Richie_OLSJ I'm afraid I'd need more support for steps 1 & 3 of your solution and would not be in a position to do steps 2 & 4.

We're having a few problems with how this and SIMs are communicating - they're not affecting many parents, but it is irritating. On the plus side, the parents that can get in think it's great. Staff do too - even though they can't see it and they do get pulled up about inconsistencies/gaps in their registers more often.

Thanks peeps. I know about how to get what I need in T4 and have the permissions - as I said I use that extensively atm - my concern is how to do what I do when it's gone. As for a satellite install of T6 Linfit, what you say suggests it would that have to be re-done every time there was a timetable change. Is that the case? Ours changes frequently so, while working this way might alleviate the timetabler's concerns, it may not make the network manager so happy. I'm therefore relieved to hear T4 will be hanging around for a while and looking forward to seeing what the new reporting engine looks like.

Over the last few years I've exported various timetables (All staff, All rooms, Free staff, Free rooms, Free teachers and the ones for each Year) from T4 into Excel using File/Copy to clipboard. These are jolly useful for a whole host of things and this year I've also used them as a basis for producing intelligible display timetables for offices and Year boards - with decent class names that apparently can't be put in in T6, teachers' preferred names and so on. But of course, T4 is to go and our timetabler is extremely resistant to allowing me to have access to T6 ('it's so easy to save changes you've made by mistake') so has anyone any idea about how else I can get these bulk timetables exported? I've ploughed through reports, but can see no way of getting them, and tried going through the 'print timetables' option which if I play with cell sizes, print to Acrobat, export to Word, then excel will do the trick. However it's a long and convoluted process, doesn't always come out right and goes through a T4 type screen anyway, so even that might go. I suspect if there's a standard role our SIMs administrator can give me limited access to T6 that would be acceptable.

Does anyone have any more information about this package? All I can find is the page on the SSAT website which doesn't say a lot about what sort of reports it can provide, or what inputs/models it uses for the predictions it generates, although there is also the OfSted bumf on the use of data which mentions it in a few paragraphs and explains that it gives answers you would prefer to recieve in certain cases. Is it worth investing in or am I as likely to be doing just as well already with FFT, SIMs & Excel?

No idea what the technicalities behind our system are (apart from running IE6), but I've often experienced the same problem in the classroom. It seemed to happen most often if students entered their password and then hit 'Enter' rather than clicking the 'login' button. Once it had happened the second try page was sometimes similarly unco-operative, so I send them back to the main page to put their details in again and warn them to click the 'Login' button - it usually does the trick, although it beats me as to why!

Thanks from a newbie. (I can't see a button for sending these so they count and appear at the bottom - one appeared after I'd sent a message like this before, but it's now vanished again. Can someone PM me to help me out???)