E10 - ADMIN Settings: Rooms

Modified on Thu, 14 Aug at 12:41 AM

Rooms

This screen shows all the rooms available at the school.

1. Prac Rooms to be shared fairly.

Each room at the school available for class is listed in this screen

During auto-rooming, E10 attempts to give a single room to a class for all its lessons. However, with certain specialised rooms, the preference may be to evenly ration rooms so that each class gets the same number of periods in an ordinary classroom. (These rooms also go to double-periods in preference to single periods).

2. Rooming Priorities

Schools may want to prioritise room allocation to certain groups above others, such as senior above junior above middle school. Behaviourally challenged or support classes may also need to be roomed as a higher priority than others. Auto - room assignment priority should be specified in a string format and priority is coded in the sequence of terms, where first term listed is highest priority, and last term is last priority. A string example is: "(7D, 8B, 9A, 10F), (12, 11), 7, 8, (9, 10), “PDHPE".

3. Over-crowd rooms by ‘x’ seats

This allows the 'room capacity' field to be regarded as slightly flexible. Overloading is penalised exponentially, for each student over the size limit, so most users set to at least '2' as a good guide, noting it would be rare to have this occur.