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Hi Everyone Hopefully posting this in the right place - looked around and it seemed most appropriate, apologies if I've erred. My school uses Timetabler and this works fantastic for us in regards to timetabling all of our lines, periods, and classes as they are all consistent and have equal share. This then syncs via Synergetic across to Schoolbox where everyone reads their timetable. We do now have a problem. We've introduced some specialist classes that run at different times, for a different length of time, and a different number of times per week. Our school timetable admin (who as great as he is, is not a technically minded person at all, and often hesitant to jump in and try new things) is adament that Timetabler simply cannot do this. As a result, we have a large number of people scrambling to try to come up with a different solution and for weeks we've come up short. Now, those classes are just not being scheduled and we're giving those teachers and students paper timetables and doing paper rolls, and I feel like I'm back at school in the 90s. Does anyone know how we can do what we're achieving to do - is it possible? Are we missing something very striaght forward?

Hello We have a 7 form entry in the to be year 7. One Band has 4 class the other 3. I have set it up as X having 3 and Y 4. Would it be a simple case of changing x to y on the Model process or do I have to do something more drastic ?

Morning everyone, I wonder if anyone can advise me, we are using timetabler for the first time this year (along with Arbor). I wanted to get started on populating our students and their classes for the next academic year as all the blocks/classes are built in Timetabler, the only thing we still need to do is finalise teaching staff and rooms. Can anyone let me know if we can import what we have so far from timetabler into Arbor and then import again at a later date when the teachers etc are in ? We previously used Nova and Sims and were able to do this. Just I am sat here with my students and classes ready to go, but am thinking I am going to have to wait until our timetable is completely finalised, which isn't until July and then this doesn't give me much time. Many thanks

Hi All I am new to timetabling this year, first time through (and my first post on here). I am in the middle of scheduling a normal timetable (secondary with 6th form) on Nova for September. It is likely that it will be difficult to have all students on site at the same time so normal timetable is unlikely to apply in the new academic year! I would be really interested to hear what others are doing to create what some are referring to as a Covid timetable for September. I have seen some some suggestions about splitting the population from 2 into 4 to reduce numbers on site but have not seen much more than that. Be great to hear your thoughts.

Dear all, help please before I start smoking again! I've just 'inherited' the TT job (if you know what I mean). One department has asked for a 'lesson' to be created allowing for a small minority of Y7 and 8 students to study one extra humanities lesson a week per term (1 term of history then change to extra geography then RE term 3). I've set this up as an alternative curriculum and called it Hu. This is for our Y7 and Y8 who are both split into 2, 7x/7y/8x. The new lessons are to be called 7p/7q/8p retrospectively. I've managed to create these new classes using the alternative curriculum, assigning teachers and rooms. However, when I come to transfer to SQL, I get a message stating that these lessons are 'not linked' and I have scary orange exclamation marks next to each of the classes I've allocated (such as 7p Mon period 2, 8p Tues period 3). There are 18 lessons in all, all with this 'not linked' warning. Can anyone please shed some light on this? 1. Does the alt curric need to be linked, or should I just export it into into SIMS and then allocate students to the class? 2. If it does need to be linked, how would one go about doing this? Thank you for taking the time to read this, and for your time Best wishes Damien

Hi, I'm currently working on next year's timetable. This is now the second timetable I have produced and the first time I've done it on my own. I've been thinking a lot about how the auto-scheduler works and how to optimise for it and I cant find any info to answer some of my ponderings. For example, obviously, a computer with a faster processor will be able to try more solutions in less time but what about multi core processors? Is Nova T programmed to take advantage of multiple cores? Does it work particularly better with any other hardware configurations than others that people are aware of? Thanks...

Hi, looking to get feedback from users on the following two timetabling products: gp-untis (Untis Timetable Software - School Scheduling Software- Timetabling for Universities) aSc Timetables (aSc TimeTables - School Scheduling. Best timetable software to create school timetable.) I read some feedback that although aSc has a user friendly interface, gp-untis was more suited for large schools with 1,000+ students. Also electives management is a key area I'd like feedback on. Anybody currently using these products, and if not can you recommend alternatives. Thanks, DB

New Timetabler here. I have noticed a Cluster Session Mismatch when I ran an all plan report. How do I or perhaps where do I correct this?

Hi in KS4 we have some students taking BTEC PE as a qualification, and the rest of the students are doing general PE (no qualification at the end of it). When creating class lists, how do I force Integris to give me the BTEC PE group information, over the General PE class info? Am hoping there's a way to do this in Integris, rather than getting my colleague to rewrite the timetable to separate it into two subjects. Thanks Kirstie