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Free Period
In NYC teachers are not allowed to teach more than 3 periods in a row. I know you can set this in the parameters but I need to put “free” or what we call preparation periods in teachers schedule but the program still counts it as a period and flags it. Additionally it would be great if the program could insert a “prep” period after 3 teaching periods. This pas year I had to do it myself and the program flagged it as too many periods in a row.
6 votesHere is a solution for a free period:
- Choose ‘Owl > Manage > Subjects’, select ‘Prep’ subject and click Edit
- Expand More and check Exclude from the generator and notifications
- Click EditNon-teaching activities (teacher meeting, preparation, duty, lunch, etc.) shouldn’t affect teacher/class load, e.g. max. activities in a row, max./min. activities per day, etc., so you might consider ignoring related notifications. It’s recommended to forbid the time slots where ignored cards are placed, so the generator won’t use them for regular cards or count them as gaps.
Ignored subjects and related activities are underlined, while the ignored cards are transparent/italic. More in the user guide: https://primetimetable.com/help/#subject
Thank you all for creating an idea for improvement and voting for it!
Best regards,
Danijel Stulic, co-founder of Prime Timetable -
Custom ordering of unscheduled cards.
I would love to be able to custom order unscheduled cards for a class.
For example all the maths lessons together, all the English lessons together. IN that way I can keep track of the activities I created in a more efficient way. Thanks!6 votesThank you for adding your suggestion for improvement. Unscheduled cards are now grouped by subjects (and sorted by subject position) and further sorted by card length (longer cards go first). In that way, unscheduled cards follow ordering of subjects which can be controlled using up and down arrows in the bottom right corner of the grid.
The ordering can be changed while dragging unscheduled cards and if you want to reorder/group them again just refresh the view by selecting the same view in the view picker.
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5 votes
Check out new Save as → Html Document with single views.
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Ability to schedule shared resources (teachers and rooms) across multiple timetables (i.e. MS, HS)
Our elementary and secondary schools have different bell schedules and number of periods; however, multiple teachers are shared between the two schools. It would be nice to be able to schedule both schools while respecting the teacher availability constraints.
Alternatively, allow for multiple bell schedules (periods) in a single schedule.
This would need some requirements gathering work to be done...
5 votesRefer to this blog post: Custom periods for classes, subjects, teachers and rooms: http://www.primetimetable.com/blog/index.php/custom-periods-for-classes-subjects-teachers-and-rooms/
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5 votes
Classes, teachers, rooms and subjects statistics can be exported in tab separated values file which you can copy/paste to spreadsheet app for adjusting/printing etc.
More in the user guide: https://primetimetable.com/help/#export-stats
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csv export
Concerning exportation of a csv file...
I would like to see three more features for the export...
1 the first column should be an id number (the number of the record)
2... when exporting a double period you export the double as a repetition of the first period but do not change the period number.
This could be addressed in one of two ways: have a size field (this would be preferable) indicating how many periods the entry actually spans. Or have the second period starting on the next period (right now it indicates that it starts on the period…
5 votesThank you very much for your valuable feedback! #2 is implemented, just refresh the webpage with Ctrl + F5 to get the latest version: http://www.wikihow.com/Force-Refresh-in-Your-Internet-Browser
We are planning to add CSV customization window in the future and another class column so that class and groups have separate columns if there are enough interests. Customization window will enable #1 and #3. Currently, #1 can be done by adding numbers in any Spreadsheet app like Excel or Google Sheets and #3 you can add column names manually because others require that the columns are not displayed in the output
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Ability to have different period configerations each day
I would like to insert Assemblies on particular days and adjust period lengths on those days.
4 votesRefer to this blog post: Custom periods for classes, subjects, teachers and rooms: http://www.primetimetable.com/blog/index.php/custom-periods-for-classes-subjects-teachers-and-rooms/
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Add lesson names (or comments) on lesson cards
Add the ability to place individual lesson names (or comments) on lesson cards that will also print in different calendar views is selected.
4 votesThank you for sharing your idea on improving Prime Timetable. I am happy to inform you that from now on you can set any custom text in the card. In order to add custom text:
- Right mouse click selected card(s) and choose Customize
- Choose ‘Set custom text’ option to enter custom text to the selected card(s) that will be displayed in individual views and custom short text that will be displayed in master views.Click “Use default” button if you changed your mind and want to remove custom text and use default instead.
Note that you can multi-select more cards and apply custom text to more cards at once. Also, you can use html tags inside any textual fields in Prime Timetable. In that way you can freely change any text but also the style of the text, e.g. make text bolder, change font-size or color, etc.
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Ability to group staff and then assign groups
Create groups of teachers/staff and then assign a group to an activity. For example, we have an upper school assembly that should be attended by all upper school staff. It would be great to have an "Upper School Faculty" staff group and then assign that group to the activity, rather than individual teachers
4 votesThank you for adding suggestion for improvement. Tags are added for teachers, rooms, classes and subjects so you can quickly filter specific teachers, rooms, classes or subjects, e.g. when assigning an activity, copying constraints to specific resources or creating a view. Multiple tags should be separated with comma, e.g. “lab, 1st floor”. More in the user guide: https://primetimetable.com/help/#tags&q
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3 votes
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3 votes
Conflicted cards are rotated, now. Check blog for more: http://www.primetimetable.com/blog/index.php/3d-school-timetable/
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3 votes
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3 votes
Use Help → Options → Show period intervals instead of numbers
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3 votes
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Check blog post for more details: http://www.primetimetable.com/blog/index.php/online-and-offline-timetabling/
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3 votes
Check blog post for more details: http://www.primetimetable.com/blog/index.php/browsing-timetables-using-back-and-forward/
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3 votes
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3 votes
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