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Finnish Term Planning |
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Finnish term planning is also concerned with dividing the year up into several terms in which all subjects are taught with the same degree of intensity. As with term planning for the year, some subjects are not taught in every term.
The basis for creating the terms in this system is a finished timetable. Then, through appropriate allocation, each day of this timetable is transferred to a weekly timetable for a whole term.
For example, if you wish to divide the school year up into 5 terms you must start with a timetable for a 5-day week. The Monday timetable then forms the basis for the weekly timetable for the first term, Tuesday forms the basis for the timetable of the second term and so on. A lesson originally lasting just one period will only be taught in one term, but a subject that is taught every day in the initial timetable will be taught in every term.
You can determine the way in which the allocation of a day in the timetable is transformed into the timetable of a whole period.
| • | Open the ”Finnish Term Planning” window (via “Modules | Multiple Terms | Finnish Term Planning”). |
| • | Click in the left window pane, for example in the first free (white) cell of the Mo-1 line. |
The right window pane will display the (empty) timetable for the first term. (Reminder: the weekly timetable for the first term will be created from the Monday of the initial timetable.)
| • | By double-clicking in the right pane you can now schedule lessons from the initial timetable in Mo-1 at any desired position in the weekly timetable. |
For example, assigning the Mo-1 period in the initial timetable Mo-1, Tu-1, We-1 and Th-1 means that those periods scheduled for the first on Monday in the initial timetable will now be taught in the first period on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in the first term.
| • | Once you are satisfied with the allocation of the Mo-1 lesson to the first term, click on Mo-2 in the left pane and allocate this period to the timetable in the right pane. |
When you have scheduled all the periods of a day (left pane) to the timetable (right pane), the term is complete and you can begin work on the next term.
You can remove an allocated period by double-clicking on it.
Instead of a double-click, you can use the <Allocate> and <Delete allocation> toolbar icons.
The <Copy the allocation of a day> toolbar icon is used to copy one term timetable to another.
Clicking the <Create terms> icon results in the terms actually being created.
The initial timetable is deleted in this process. Please ensure that you have created a backup copy of the initial timetable before invoking this function.
