Terms and time limitations

Terms and time limitations

When the timetable is changed during the school year, in many cases it is recommended to open a new term and to carry out the changes in this term. In this respect, the calculation method changed for Untis 2019, which will be explained in the following segment.

Note

The calculation method described in the following is not valid for Austrian Federal schools (österreichische Bundesschulen ('UPIS-Schulen')).

Teacher balance in a term

A lesson taking place over the entire time of the term counts fully in this respective term so that the teacher balance of the this term can be calculated.

Example: Lesson

There are two terms in a 42-week long school year. Term 1 ends on 1 January and lasts for 20 weeks. Term 2 starts on 2 January and lasts for 22 weeks.

Teacher Fre has a target/week of 12.00 value units in term 1.

Teacher Fre teaches PE (L-No. 21) the entire term 1, the value of this lesson therefore is 1.00. the same is true for lessons 5-8 which are 100% included in the value calculation.

Lesson number 10, which is limited to 11 December, accounts for 0.90 value units with regards to the actual value of the respective teacher. This calculation is new and follows the logic that this lesson takes place only in 18 of 20 possible weeks, the calculation of the factor therefore follows the principle

(number of active weeks of the term)/(numbers of weeks of the term), i.e.

18/20 = 0.90

The 'old' value, which was shown in this place up to Untis 2018 and which is a result of (number of active weeks of the term)/(number of weeks of the school year ), i.e. 18/42=0.43, is shown in the 'yearly average' column:

If we take the same lesson in term 2, where it is not taught, you see that its value is 0.00 for this term in the value calculation. The yearly average, however, remains unchanged.

Lesson no. 21 has a value of 1.00 in term 1 in the value calculation as mentioned above. In term 2, it is not available and therefore it is no longer relevant for the value of the teacher.

In total, the value of teacher Fre’s given lessons in term 1 is 11.90 value units. The example above also describes why no sum total is shown in the totals row of the yearly average column: the sum total of the individual rows in the picture above does not result in the actual yearly average of 10.90, and would therefore only be confusing. The correct yearly average (lesson + reduction – for more information, please read the next section) is always shown in the 'Teacher' master data window.

Reduction example

In addition to teacher Fre’s discussed lesson, other activities such as reductions are included in the calculation of his lesson balance. He only teaches the respective lesson in term 1, this is why in Untis 2019, the value of 1.00 is shown for term 1, and 0.00 in term 2 since this is a limited lesson. Limited reductions behave the same way in the counting as limited lessons.

This is a novelty in Untis 2019. Up to Untis 2018, the mean value of 0.48 was displayed. This value is exclusively shown in the form view of the reduction window. This new display mode makes it possible to independently create actual-planned balances of the teacher for term 1 and term 2.

Teacher balance for term and school year

The balance is to be activated in the page layout of the lesson window.

In the first row the balance for the current term is shown. In the example above this therefore is 11.90 value units from the lesson plus 1.00 units from the reduction, which is a sum total of 12.90 value units.

The second row shows the balance of the entire school year and across all terms. In this example, teacher Fre therefore has a balance of + 0.90 for term 1 and a balance of +0.43 for the entire school year. Any limitations and any relevant changes of the target value of this term are taken into account.

Term 2 shows a balance of 0.00 for teacher Fre, the balance row for the entire school year, however, always is the same regardless of the term.

Value correction

The sum total of value corrections of a term can now also be displayed in the master data of the teacher.

Please note that

1.only value corrections '+' and '-' are taken into account,

2.the sum total of value corrections is shown according to the respective term and that

3.the sum total of value corrections are included only in the yearly average .

The value correction of '20' in the example above contributes to the yearly average with the value '0.5' in 40 school weeks.