E10 - Speciality rooms

Modified on Thu, 14 Aug at 12:59 AM

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preamble
Rooms > Speciality rooms
Speciality room exemptions
Auto - rooming
Speciality room violations

Preamble

Speciality rooms can be set up to accommodate students with special education requirements e.g., students using a hearing device might need rooms with hearing loops or student using a wheelchair might require ground level rooms or rooms with ramp access. As Edval better understands which rooms are suitable for students with special education requirements, the auto - room algorithm will work more effectively, by assigning their classes to the appropriate rooms.

Rooms > Speciality rooms

Entries required for each field:

Field	Entry required
Description	Enter the special feature / capability of the room e.g., Hearing Loop, Ground Level or Wheelchair Ramp.
Rooms	Double click in the cell to select the appropriate room/s satisfying the special education requirement.
Students	Enter the name of the student/s who requires the specific feature / capability of the rooms listed. Enter only one student per cell.

Speciality room exemptions

In some cases, not all classes need a speciality room. To specify which classes do require the speciality rooming or to exempt other classes, open the right hand side slide-in and enter the required class codes. Note that a wildcard string may be used. Use 'not' to exempt classes from speciality rooming, e,g, 'not *PDHPE*. This wildcard string will exempt all classes that include PDHPE in the code. Use the * only to make speciality rooming apply to all class-codes.

Auto - rooming

The auto - room algorithm considers these requirements via the weight for 'Adhere to Special Needs'.

See the 'Rooming quality' via Rooms > Room allocations > Rooming quality.

Speciality room violations

Any violations of special education requirements are highlighted in the timetable display with a yellow '(N)'.