E10 - How To: Set up Home Rooms for Teachers or Students

Modified on Thu, 14 Aug at 12:55 AM

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Preamble
Home Rooms for Teachers
Home rooms for student groups

Preamble

It will depend on the room capacity and the school's policy if you need to give teachers their own Home room or that you need to schedule the majority of the classes for particular groups in Home rooms. This document is about how to set this up to include this information in the Auto-room function. Using this feature can result in slightly more efficient teacher timetables due to slightly reduced travel time in some cases.

Home Rooms for Teachers

Navigate to Rooms > Room data (F5), enter a teacher code in the Homeroom of column.

In Rooms > Subject rooms (SHIFT-F5), enter the room in the set for every subject associated with the particular teacher.

In this example, FONS has homeroom C3. FONS takes 8HIS.D, 11MHI1 and 11MHI2.

After auto-rooming 8HIS.D is in C3 but 11MHI1 and 11MHI2 are not, as C3 was not included in the Subject Rooms set for 11,12:MHI.

After adding C3 to the Subject room set for 11,12:MHI, the room set also appeared in the SubjectRooms column in Room data (F5).

After auto-rooming all classes are allocated to C3. Rooms > Timetables.

Home rooms for student groups

In Rooms > Room data (F5), enter the group (letter or number) in the HomeGroup column.

In Rooms > Subject rooms (SHIFT-F5), enter the HomeGroup room in the set for every subject associated with the particular group classes.

In this example, 7A wants R01 as a Home room.

R01 is included in the room set for each subject associated with the Group 7A classes.

Room weights and priorities can be adjusted in Rooms > Room allocations (CTRL-R) > Actionbar: Auto room; 'Lesson not in teacher's home room' and 'Lesson not in home-group's home room'.