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I am optimistically creating September's TT for Y7-13 school. When building and scheduling option blocks for Y11 Nova-T is picking up the Y10 Option blocks. The model is correct and the classes/staff are correct for Y11 yet the label is Y10 . Slightly concerned if I progress I'm going to get a nasty shock a little further through the process. Has anyone else experienced this? We certainly haven't. Any advice? Many thanks

Hi all, First post, so thank you for welcoming me. I am a scheduler in a big International school that is running Nova T6 and Isams (i.e not Sims!). i have just finished the schedule (well that is what one always believes until the proverbial fan is being hit). I would like to get some custom data report that is not built in. I KNOW there must be a SQL or MYSQL database behind Nova... I just can’t figure out how I can access and query it. Is there any way to get any access to the backend? Again, this is a Nova T6 standalone installation on a Windows 10 VM and I do not have access to Sims. Any help appreciated, Alain

I'm looking at trying to streamline our process of scheduling parents evening. Currently we are receiving requests from parents then creating a schedule to distribute that can accomodate everyone and give as optimal evening as possible. Needless to say, although it has its benefits, there is a lot of time that has to be invested in a single evening and in a growing school (1000+ students in our Upper school) this isn't going to improve. I know a number of schools have been using online solutions allowing parents to directly book appointments themselves. It would be great to know what solutions schools have been using and could recommend (including feedback from parents and staff) but also how any pit-falls have been addressed. My main concerns would be the difficulties parents have to book appointments if they are one of the last to do so and also where teachers only have a few appointments how to prevent them from being spread out across the duration of the event.

Hello All, A colleague has presented me with an interesting problem. he is the Lab Technician responsible for prepping all the practical experiments for the Science teachers. They want to make a system that makes requests pop into a shared calendar so he can prep materials and see what is needed at a glance. The "cut-off" period for requesting practical materials is 48hrs before the practical takes place. However not all teachers adhere to this and sessions pop up in the shared calendar after the cut off time. He wants to make it that teachers can only book resources more than 48hrs in advance IE if they try to book resources after the deadline they get an automated response denying the request and they have to go and grovel to him in person. I know there is a way to limit how far in advance you can book a resource (180 days being the default) but I've looked for a "deadline" type setting with no success, even powershell to alter permissions doesn't seem like it will work. Any suggestions? Many thanks!

Hi I am new to timetabling this year. I work in a 11-18 school with approx 1700 students. I have scheduled KS5 (Y13 and Y12), KS4 (Y11, Y10, Y9) and almost year 7. I am trying to schedule the last block for this year group (Languages - 3 classes with 5 lessons). I have attempted to use the 'schedule' button in the blocks menu (effectively it attempts to autoschedule as far as im aware?!?). I have previously stopped this process after a while using the abort button and it has managed to schedule 3 or 4 of the 5 lessons. However, on this occasion it appears to have scheduled all 5 (i.e. all 5 have turned yellow) but the time is still rotating and i cannot select any other module to carry on. I did this earlier and when i clicked abort it 'lost' the final lesson and returned it to an 'unscheduled' state. Has anyone come across this before and does anyone have any suggestions. Thank you so much for taking the time to read this, i understand completely how busy people are at the minute. Take care Ed

Hi, I am new to Edugeek and to timetabling. I have successfully written and rolled out my first timetable. However, we have a few triple and double periods which I am struggling to assign. Errors that a frustrating me are Break "Overrun", and Clash Type: Period Mismatch I have unbuilt, unstaffed and unscheduled the block Changed the block structure from S4 to DSS in the session screen and clicked on Block, Update and Verify I have changed the breaks to soft and suspend 1pd rule I have tried to set different breaks on the cycle screen. I have played around with soft and hard, etc. I have tried to fathom previous implementations from my predecessors but am even more confused. I have tried all the help functions in SIMS and google searches but can't quite nail what I need. Double periods, which are not inturrupted by break or lunch are not a problem. So it must be the break type? Below is an example:

Hi, I need to create an Art class which contains Year 12 and Year 13 students taught by the same teacher. The class is in one of the option blocks. How do I do this without there appearing to be a clash when I try to schedule it? Thanks

Hi All Our SLT are looking at changing the way some of our MIS systems work One of the drawbacks we have is that many apps built for schools are procedural rather than event driven apps. What I mean by that is they depend on the user doing something e.g. running a report, entering data in a marksheet, entering behaviour / achievements In an event driven application it is the event that triggers a process e.g. A detention is created for a student, we might want the creation of that detention to trigger an email to the students head of house, rather than running a report at the end of the day saying "these are the detention students". The event here would be "detention created", trigger process to generate an email. If a student is registered as attended for period 3, but they have no mark 15 minutes into period 4, we might want to generate an alert to the Attendance Officer warning them that we have potential truants, rather than the attendance officer running a report manually. The event in this case would be "time to check for truants" and the process would be alert the attendance officer (using whatever way we wanted to...report / email / txt etc) We are looking to try and find an package that supports event driven processes and schedules, particularly in the areas of behaviour and attendance. We currently uses SIMS / SISRA analytics Many thanks Phil

Hi, I do the admin for a large sports school in Hong Kong. 40 different venues , 40 coaches and 20 age groups. I am looking for some software that can deal with our class timetabling. It also needs to track the hours coaches work. If it can do other stuff too, great, but if it can do timetabling and coach hours - that's my main headache. Standard school timetabling software has a number of problems in dealing with our situation. Our venues are not really like classrooms. They are like a remote building on a large campus with lots of classrooms with different age group classes running simultaneously within it. Venue is king in our world. We book slots (as per their standard time slots), and they are the most immovable part of the schedule. The coaches can be shuffled around if needed. A class of kids cant move venue either ... but they could easily move from 'room' to 'room' within a venue. Any suggestions would be really, really welcome!

Hi In Nova T6, I want a teacher to teach two classes in the same block at the same time Thanks

Hello, I'm involved with a group of Yoga studios with teachers that often go around to different schools and teach at different times. I'm requesting some help with modding the tables for MRBS. Plan on running LAMP, open to suggestions on the absolutely, easiest one click graphic distro setup for same on a cheap intel box. I really find MRBS brilliant especially in its simple relational design. What I want to do is mod it ( At least I think I have to mod it ) to serve as a reminder system for teachers, so it will email them a user-defined length of time before a class starts, reminding them when they should be where. The classes and locations have to be user defined, the times can be on the hour for now, I can fix that later. So the user sequence would be 1)Teacher goes to studiocollectivesomething.org 2) Create or login to account with email and PW 3) Go to config screen with list of rules 4) Rule consists of a) Week choice in month ( 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 1st and 3rd, 2nd and 4th) b) Number of weeks to repeat and/or end date c) Self defined label describing location ( Joe's Yoga) d) How long before class you want to be reminded , reminder #1 and #2 configurable. e) How long is the class 1-164 hours, limit one week 5) Then the system running cron or similar would check and send reminders out. Don't know if I'm allowed to offer money here, but I would be willing to hire someone to do the mods if interested. thanks to all.