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Scheduling
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The Mac School Scheduler - The Master Timetable Builder!
The Scheduler will generate a Conflict Matrix and build a Master Timetable for you. The system will schedule a maximum of 4,000 students in up to 8 terms at a time into a maximum of 1,500 classes. The maximum number of periods in a day is 42, the maximum number of blocks in a cycle is 192 and the maximum number of days in the cycle is 14. The user can define for each course how many times per cycle it must be taught, which rooms it can be taught in and when it cannot be taught.
Teacher room and course preferences can be set. All prerequisites and co-requisites are taken into account - historical information for each student is read to make sure each student has successfully met his/her requested course prerequisites.
Student course requests (linked and global alternates can be assigned) can be either manually entered, optically scanned or imported via an ASCII file.
The multi-user system now allows for editing of multiple students’ course requests and timetables. Each counselor can edit student timetables for different students at the same time and the system will automatically update class rosters.
Once the master timetable has been built, new students can be either manually or automatically scheduled according to their student course requests.
Mac School Scheduler allows the user to save multiple scheduling runs, as well as create an alternate database to be used for scheduling for the following year without harming the existing schedule.
Reporting options are comprehensive and include the following reports:
