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Use the following weighting settings to control the level of compliance with the specifications entered for fringe periods and optional subjects. These subjects are defined on the "Subject" tab under "Master Data | Subjects" (code "(F) Fringe period" or "(O) Optional subject").

 

Fringe periods and optional subjects are usually lessons not attended by all the students of a class. To avoid NTPs for the rest of the students, these subjects should preferentially be scheduled at the beginning or the end of a halfday.

 

Code (G) "Not a fringe period" has the opposite effect. A subject marked (G) should preferentially be scheduled in the middle of a half-day.

Optional subjects only in the last period of the half days

- Controls the scheduling of subjects marked "Optional subject" in the last periods of a half-day.

Opt. subjects in the 1st or last period of the half days

- Controls the scheduling of subjects marked "Optional subject" in the first or last periods of a half-day.

Fringe periods in the last period of the half days

- Controls the scheduling of subjects marked "Fringe period" in the last periods of a half-day.

Fringe periods in the 1st of last period of the half days

- Controls the scheduling of subjects marked "Fringe period" in the first or last periods of a half-day.

Lesson not to be held in fringe period is code = G

- Controls the scheduling of subjects marked (G) in the middle periods of a half-day.

 

The only differences between optional subjects and fringe period subjects are the different weighting settings specified by the timetabler.

 

For instance, if you have two subjects – Choir and Clarinet – both of which are attended by some of the students of the class. The subject Choir can take place either at the beginning or the end of a half-day, but you want the subject Clarinet to take place exclusively at the end of the day.

 

Meet both requirements by entering the code (O) for Choir and the code (F) for Clarinet and set the weightings accordingly.

 

If you want the subject Choir to be scheduled exclusively at the beginning of a half-day, simply block the last periods of the halfday by entering the time request -3 (under "Master Data | Subjects").

 

 

 

Hint!

You can also control the scheduling of fringe period subjects and optional subjects exclusively via the time request function. However, the optimisation tool will profit from a higher degree of flexibility when working with weighting settings rather than time requests.