ChrisWinter

Hi Bernie, Thanks for this comment. I think Optimise could be the key to achieving a good two week timetable. I like to manually schedule the whole of KS4 and KS3 core subjects (ensuring a good spread by design); then auto-schedule the 6th form, which has quite a lot of flexibility in the teacher teams, due to deliberate splitting of classes; then auto-schedule KS3 linear blocks. This approach has always worked really well in my school, but in the past I have used Timetabler, which does spread lessons evenly over two weeks. I think Optimise could provide the functionality I need. Do you actually schedule using Optimise (I believe this is possible), or schedule first and Optimise afterwards?

Hi Matt, Yes, I will be doing a significant amount of the timetable manually, but want to be sure that when I auto-schedule the last elements, mainly KS3 linear blocks, that it will spread the lessons sensibly. I would fully expect that any timetabling software should do this, but as I said in my original post the Capita trainer at copurse I recently attended seemed to suggest that Nova T6 might be somewhat limited in this respect and was pushing the use of Interleave (which I don't want to use). Unfortunately the course only involved creating a one week timetable, so I didn't get to explore this properly. As you suggest, probably the best thing would be to satisfy myself via a small experiment, but it would be great to hear from anyone who has used Nova T6 to do a two week timetable - there must be hundreds of people out there!

Hi, Though I have 7 timetables under my belt, I am new to using Nova T6. My school has a two week timetable, so I'm thinking about the best way to schedule this in Nova T6. Could someone advise whether Nova T6 will effectively spread the lessons of a class or block over a two week timetable when auto-scheduling. I'm not concerned that week 2 should exactly mirror week 1, just that, for example, my 8 periods of Y7 maths are split 4:4, or at worst 5:3 across weeks 1 and 2. The manual from my training course suggests that auto-scheduling within Nova T6 will evenly spread lessons across 2 weeks, but the trainer seemed to suggest that the only way to ensure this was by using Interleave. However, I can foresee some complexity/constraints that I would rather avoid using Interleave, so would rather just start with a basic two week timetable and schedule that. Can anyone confirm that Nova T6 will spread same subject lessons within a linear block and option blocks evenly across 2 weeks? Thanks for your time.