E10 - Room areas

Modified on Thu, 14 Aug at 12:55 AM

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Preamble
Rooms > Room areas
Auto - rooming

Preamble

Room areas can be set up to minimise teacher and student movement. If E10 better understands where rooms are situated, the auto - room algorithm will work more effectively, by assigning classes to rooms in their own or a nearby areas.

Rooms > Room areas

Explanation of each field and entries required:

Field	Description / Entry required
Room area	An area might represent a building, a floor of a building or a cluster / block of rooms. Enter an appropriate description of the room area e.g. SeniorBlock / ArtStudios.
Rooms	Specify the rooms that are in each area by entering the room code or use wildcards to enter a group of rooms. You can list the rooms explicitly, with a space or comma as a separator, or use a wildcard to specify a group of rooms. For example, *"L"** represents all rooms starting with 'L', which might equate to Block L.
Nearby areas	Double click in the cell to open a pop up to select the nearby area/s for a specific room area, e.g., PE is a nearby area to BlockE and Hall.

Auto - rooming

The auto - room algorithm considers the room areas and nearby rooms stipulated via the weights for 'Proximity to main room' and 'Teacher movement' as set in Rooms > Room allocations > Rooming parameters to assign rooms more effectively.

See the 'Scoring Details' via Rooms > Room allocations > Improve.

The auto - room algorithm does consider student movement as it interacts with the nearby areas.

Nearby areas are also used by the Master grid, and the rooming algorithm interacts with these weights:

Movement of students and
Movement of teachers,

which encourages ease of movement for students and teachers when a penalty is set for students / teachers having to move across campuses or room areas in consecutive periods.