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How do I setup Flexible Timetabling?

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Sentral Timetables supports what we call Flexible Timetables. This allows you to permit students in particular years to arrive later to school when they have free periods and leave early if they have finished their last class for the day.  Depending on how the timetable is structured, Timetables provides a range of options to configure any classes that should be ignored from a student's timetable, excluding them when determining which class is the first or last lesson for a day.
 

Prerequisites

Administrator level access to Sentral Timetables.
 

Instructions

To enable Flexible Timetables:
  1. From the Timetables module, select Setup and then choose Timetables Setup.
  2. Select Flexible Timetable.
  3. Under Availability Rules, select options to suit your school’s situation.
    1. Select the applicable year levels in the Allowed School Years list.
    2. Specify the rule for flexible timetabling.
    3. Specify the rule for flexible arrivals.
    4. Specify the rule for flexible departures
  4. Under Class Inclusions, specify the class period types to include.
  5. Under Class Exclusions, select options to suit your school’s situation. Classes with the selected period types will not have any roll marking impact when added to this option.
    1. Specify the period type to ignore.
    2. Specify the class type to ignore.
    3. Type class name patterns to ignore – separated by a comma.
  2. Under Messaging:
    1. Specify whether to skip sending notifications for students who are not later according to their flexible timetables.
    2. Select Save.
  3. Under Manage Student Flexible Timetable Permission, select whether to enable individual student selection.
  4. If you enabled this option, under Manage Student Flexible Timetable Permission, select View Manual Selections.
    1. Choose the Year.
    2. Select students with parental permission for flexible timetabling arrangements, and select Set Allowed.
    3. Select students who have not received parental permission for flexible timetabling arrangements and select Set Not Allowed.
    4. Repeat for applicable Years.
    5. Select Back to Flexible Timetabling.
    6. Select Save.
This Flexible Timetable setup then links to your student kiosk attendance menu, adding authorized late arrival / early departure reasons.
 

Additional Information

View our Timetables step by step guides to learn more.



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