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The "Rooms" tab |
  
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The "Rooms" tab |
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Optimisation of room allocation
Use the "Room weighting" tab under "Master Data | Rooms" to assign a value between 0 and 4 to each room in the school. 0 indicates that the room is non-essential for the lesson allocated to it, i.e. it is unimportant if a lesson takes place in this room or in an alternative room (for instance because the lesson requires no special fixed teaching aids). 4 indicates a high priority, i.e. a lesson should be scheduled in this room (or its designated alternative room), if at all possible.
A Chemistry lesson where a number of experiments will be performed should only take place in the Chemistry lab. A PE lesson only makes sense when the sports hall is available.
Caution!
If the weighting slider is set to 5 (extremely important) or 4 (very important) and if, in addition, the room weighting of the subject room is set to 4, the lesson will not be scheduled unless a suitable subject room can be found.
Optimisation of the off-site rooms
- Controls the level of compliance with the specified walking times required to reach off-site buildings (external sites). Please see the chapter "Off-site rooms" for further details.
Take room capacity into consideration
As a rule, the optimisation tool and the room optimisation function attempt to allocate a room with a room capacity appropriate for the number of students in the class. If this presents a problem, the programme searches for a room that is slightly larger than required. In extreme cases, the software may allocate a room that is slightly smaller than required.