Automatic entry of student groups

As of Untis 2018, the interface to WebUntis has been changed in so far that all Untis lessons showing the same SUBJECT-CLASS combination and which do not have any student groups are merged to one lesson in WebUntis.

For some schools where many (individual) meetings were booked under the subject title 'Meeting' for a (pseudo) class 'Meeting', this meant significantly more work since they needed to enter a student group in any case in order to be able to differentiate the individual meetings.

An example:

Two separate lessons shown in the above figure, U165 and U163, have the same subject and the same class in Untis but no entry in the field student group…

... which is the reason why the lessons are combined to one in WebUntis. As an undesired consequence, the line text which actually should show the meeting’s topic cannot be allocated to individual appointments anymore.

An additional option was created in order to facilitate the entry for schools which have many such lessons:

Settings > Miscellaneous > Customise

This additional option automatically adds a distinct student group to newly entered lessons.

When this option is activated, the following situation occurs when you enter a new lesson in Untis:

Due to the different student groups, the 6 teacher lines ...

... WebUntis interprets them as 6 different lessons and the allocation of the Untis line text works as expected.