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Configure the time grid
Once you've set up the grid structure, define the times for your institution. The configuration of your institution's times is carried out in three steps via the command Parameters > Institution > Time grid. To reduce the risk of error, we strongly advise you to enter each section 1/2/3 in the recommended order.
Section 1: Setting the mid-day
- Select the option 2 half-days separated by a break, then optionally move the green bars in order to indicate the end of morning and beginning of afternoon.
- If necessary, modify the non-working half-days (by default, on Wednesday afternoon): a click on a hatched half-day allows to open it; a click on a standard half-day makes it non-working.
Section 2: Define the recesses
Note
By default, a morning recess and an afternoon recess are created by EDT, but you can enter as many recesses as you need and assign them to the classes concerned. The definition of the recesses has little influence on the calculations performed by the software, and is not mandatory. It is primarily a visual marking on the grid. When you create courses, it is on this marking that the command Activate recess compliance, which prevents a course from being positioned on previously defined recesses.
By default, a morning recess and an afternoon recess are created by EDT, but you can enter as many recesses as you need and assign them to the classes concerned. The definition of the recesses has little influence on the calculations performed by the software, and is not mandatory. It is primarily a visual marking on the grid. When you create courses, it is on this marking that the command Activate recess compliance, which prevents a course from being positioned on previously defined recesses.
- To create a new recess, click on Add a recess, enter the designation, then validate by pressing the key Enter on your keyboard.
- To activate/deactivate recesses, double-click in the column to the left of each designation: each recess corresponds to a bar in the grid on the right side of the window.
- To modify the time of a recess, select it and then manually move the green bar.
- To modify the classes affected by a recess, double-click in the column Classes, then select the concerned levels and/or classes.
Section 3: Define the time designations
In this last step, you will configure the times as you wish them to appear on the software's grid and on the printed timetables.
- First of all, enter the first time of the grid and the actual duration of the sequences, allowing for an interclass duration if necessary (for example, 55 minutes of course time, followed by 5 minutes of interclass time for a 60-minute sequence).
- The times of the midday were defined in section 1. If the times you want to appear on the timetables differ from the times previously defined (due in particular to a lack of precision in the time steps) modify the designation in the field provided.
- Proceed in the same way for the recess settings, then click on the button Generate the times. In the right-hand pane, you can view the time designations as they will appear on the software grid and on the printed timetables.
- If you're not completely satisfied with the result, click on the button Customize the times below the preview grid: In the pop-up window, you can manually modify all the designations (and differentiate between those on the software grid and those on the printed timetables).
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