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Creating a complex course
To create a complex course, you need to group several courses together in a single block, in order to guarantee the succession or alignment of these courses on the timetable grid.
The courses that make up a complex course are called class meetings. To create a complex course, you first create a simple course in which you combine the various resources from all the class meetings. Then, in a second step, you specify the links between these resources (who teaches what to whom and where) and between the class meetings themselves (switching groups halfway through the class meeting and/or every other week, switching teachers, etc.).
Numerous complex course configurations are available, covering all the scenarios encountered by your institution.
The courses that make up a complex course are called class meetings. To create a complex course, you first create a simple course in which you combine the various resources from all the class meetings. Then, in a second step, you specify the links between these resources (who teaches what to whom and where) and between the class meetings themselves (switching groups halfway through the class meeting and/or every other week, switching teachers, etc.).
Numerous complex course configurations are available, covering all the scenarios encountered by your institution.
Step 1: create a new course
- Go to the display Timetable > Course >
List. - In the menu Edit, choose New course or use the shortcut Ctrl + N.
- In the pop-up window, enter the course duration, period and frequency.
- Add the resources of the various courses to be grouped (for example: 4 classes of _th grade, 3 FL2 teachers, 1 teaching assistant, 3 rooms).
Usually, the courses grouped together in a complex course are not of the same subject. In this case, create a generic subject applicable to all of them for example, FL2) or add Subject not designated (the subject of each course can be specified later). - Click on the button Create: the course is added to the list.
Step 2: specify the complex courses
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Select the course in the list, right-click with your mouse and activate the command Specify: a window Specify the complex courses appears.
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Double-click in the column Subject to specify the subject for each class meeting (if you have entered the teacher's preferential subject, it will be added automatically).
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Double-click in the column Class to specify the distribution of classes in each class meeting: in the pop-up window, tick or un-tick the classes/class parts attending the course.
If some class meetings do not take place as a whole class and/or if several classes have courses together, the groups (and the class parts that make them up) are automatically generated by the software; you can find them in the display Timetable > Groups > List.
- Then choose a distribution mode. This determines how the class meetings are linked together. There are 6 standard distribution modes, plus 3 modes that take the periods into account.
- Mode 1: a class meeting per teacher
- Mode 2: a class meeting per teacher for each fortnight
- Mode 3: teachers change group half-way through the course
- Mode 4: teachers change groups halfway through the course, alternating every fortnight
- Mode 5: teachers change classes every fortnight
- Mode 6: three groups for two classes
- Mode 7: a class meeting per teacher, students depend on the period
- Mode 8: teachers change groups every period
- Mode 9: a unique group changes teacher every period
- Mode 1: a class meeting per teacher
- Preview the resulting configuration and customize it as required. In particular, you can:
- Delete a class meeting
- Duplicate a class meeting
- Empty a class meeting
- Allocate remaining resources
- Add additional resources
- Delete a class meeting
- Click on Close.
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