Course
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A course is a combination of a teaching group and a subject which contains one or more lessons for the selected academic term. Teacher(s) and duration (number of consecutive periods) are specified separately for each lesson in the course.
For example, if the teaching group "3.B" is required to have four lessons of English a week, create a course "3.B English" and within it four individual lessons.
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Preferences
Preferred rooms
The course can have a room preference, just as a subject or a class group. It's important to realize that these preferences all mix together to form the actual preference for each lesson.Inherited required rooms
When the course's subject requires a room and the course's class group requires a different room, this creates an impossible situation - the lessons cannot be placed into a room without breaking one of the requirements and the timetable cannot be created. In that case, the room requirements for all parties have to reexamined and settled, so that they can be met.The same can happen when teachers are taken into account - if the lesson teacher requires a room, but the lesson itself inherits a different requirement from the subject, course or class group, the situation must be remedied before timetable creation.
Advanced settings
Lesson spread
The lesson spread allows specifying the number of lessons to be taught on each particular day.This is an advanced and easily overused tool. It is usually not necessary to specify the spread manually, because the balanced lesson distribution is ensured by other means. Please use the course spreads only for special or rigorous distributions of lessons.
The controlling constraint is Course: Spread.
Lessons
List of lessons in this course. You can create new lessons here.Optimisation settings
Lesson placement
Place lessons of this course to a specific position in the class groups' day schedule. This setting overrides the subject's lesson placement if active.The controlling constraint is Subgroup: Lesson placement.