E10 - How to: Reserve multiple rooms for the one class

Modified on Thu, 14 Aug at 12:46 AM

Some practical classes often need access to both a practical and theory room in the one lesson:

Food Technology classes - Kitchen and theory room.
Drama classes - Theatre/Hall and theory room.

Set this up in Class data F6.

In View, select/tick Easy sub-class entry.

Right click on the class and select 'Manage sub-class'.
The first time this is selected in a session, a popup appears describing how this feature could be used.
Select 'Different rooms at once' and the number of sub-classes (components) required.
A new class (11DRA.1a) is created and appears in the row below the original class (11DRA1). It is set up as a sub-class that is linked to the main class, with no students and 'None' in TeacherPref. It exists just to hold a different room.
Specify the required room (or leave blank for subject roomset) in the RoomPref column.

Notes:
1) In this example, the 11DRA1 class wanted a second room, so we selected 2 components - original and 1 extra.
2) The new sub-class 11DRA.1a has the Subject and Link column entries hidden from view. These can be displayed if View Easy sub-class entry is unticked, but it is generally not necessary to see these.