Off-site rooms with graduated lesson starts

Instead of wasting an entire period to reach an off-site location, the start time of certain lessons can be adjusted slightly to suit the situation.

Using this method, the PE teacher from our example at the beginning of this chapter can be scheduled to teach periods 1, 2 and 5 in the main building and period 3 at the off-site sports track. The software schedules a free period for period 4 to allow the teacher sufficient time to return to the main building after period 3.

For off-site rooms with graduated lesson start enter the same (numerical) off-site code for all the rooms at an off-site location. Permitted values are between 1 and 9.

Two off-site locations

Let's assume that your school has two off-sitelocations. The first is a 15-minute walk away from the main building, the second a 10-minute walk away from the first off-site location. Enter a value for each off-site room as described above to enable Untis to schedule the teacher as follows:

Period 1 main building - Period 2 off-site location1 - Period 3 off-site location 2 .

Period 1 main building - Period 2 off-site location1 - Period 3 off-site location 2 .

Untis allocates one free period for the return from one of the off-site buildings to the main building or from off-site location 2 to off-site location 1.

Untis takes into account:

•The walking times for teachers and students to off-site subject rooms and classrooms

•The walking times for teachers and students from off-site subject rooms and classrooms back to the main building

Support by subject sequence for teachers

It is advisable to reduce the number of times teachers and students are obliged to move between main and off-site buildings to an absolute minimum. The following example shows how to do this:

For teachers who teach both in the main building and at off-site locations, enter the number '1' under Subject sequence - Teachers for lessons that take place in the main building, and the number '2' for lessons that take place in the off-site building.

Untis will then attempt to schedule as many periods as possible in the same building for the teacher.