There are some checks which will ensure that the curriculum is complete before creating the timetable lessons from it.  You can check each part of the school separately (recommended) or the whole school together.  You must get all green ticks for each check before proceeding.  If you get a red cross, this indicates something which would prevent the timetable from being created, and must therefore be fixed.

Click on the message for the item(s) which is/are wrong, and a list will be displayed of the curriculum items which are not complete.

The example shows a pretty serious problem – the number of periods planned for the curriculum does not match the number available in the period set!

Check items with a yellow triangle are for information and warning.  In the example above, there are groups without teachers.  If decisions have not yet been made about who is teaching certain groups, you can proceed with creating the timetable and add the teachers later.

When all the checks are completed, you can press the Create Timetable button to create a complete list of every lesson required to deliver your curriculum.  In theory, all you need to add now are the periods and the rooms for each lesson.

To see this, select Timetable from the Main Forms menu:-

However, theory and fact can be far removed.  Here are things to look out for:

• It is quite probable that using the default room, you have ended up with Games in a Chemistry lab
• The system will have allocated the first teacher to teach all lessons
• You will have some occasions when you have two teachers team teaching a group but the system will only have generated one teacher per group per period.

All these problems are easily overcome.  You can duplicate, alter and delete any timetable lines as you, the timetabler, sees fit.  The system assumes you are the boss and will do, blindly what it is told.

If you wish to look at the timetable for a single year, group or teacher you can use the ‘Filter’ drop-down to select lessons for a particular teacher, room, teaching group or period.