Class group
A class group is a set of students participating together in most lessons. Each student in the school belongs to exactly one class group. A class group can, but doesn't have to, be split into subgroups by means of so called divisions.
Tabs
Preferences
Timeslot availability
Change availability for timeslots in which lessons must not or should not be scheduled. Based on the percentage a slot is either fully available (100), undesired (90-10) or unavailable (0).The controlling constraint is Lesson: Class group availability. The overall penalty for using an undesired slot is a product of the constraint penalty and the slot availability percentage.
Preferred rooms
Add a preferred room to indicate lessons should (or must) be scheduled into that room. Increase weight for rooms with higher priority.If some rooms are required, they are the only allowed rooms and the lessons may not be placed into another room. The controlling constraint is Lesson: Class group preferred room.
Subgroups
Divisions
A division is a splitting of a class group into two or more subgroups, for example for languages and PE lessons.Subgroups
A subgroup is the smallest unit of teaching. Subgroups are assigned to teaching groups for which courses and eventually lessons are created.Advanced settings
Pairs of independent subgroups
These are pairs of subgroups from different divisions that are mutually exclusive, i.e. share no students between them. They can be used to model advanced relations within class groups with multiple divisions.For example, suppose a class group is divided by gender to 'Boys' and 'Girls' and further by language option to 'French' and 'Spanish'. Further suppose that French is only studied by a subset of girls and Spanish is studied by boys and the remaining girls. Then the 'Boys' and 'French' subgroups are independent and theoretically can be scheduled simultaneously to the same timeslot. However, the girls studying Spanish would be idle in that period, so for most schools, this setup is neither required nor allowed.
Students
List of students for the purpose of choosing optional subjects.Import
Students can be imported from a CSV file with three columns: First name, Last name and email. The header row should be included.Courses
List of courses involving this class group.Lessons
List of lessons involving this class group. Use this tab to create new lessons for the whole class group or any of the subgroups.Properties
Students
Enter the number of students in the class group. This is only necessary if you'd like Skolaris to check room capacity for you.Year group
Select a year group to inherit a class group configuration set from it.Active
Inactive objects do not appear in the system except at the end of the master lists and in old data. Deactivate objects you don't need anymore, but they are part of old timetables that you want to keep intact.Optimisation settings
Effective configuration set
The configuration set groups together settings that are likely to repeat for multiple class groups, such as maximum allowed periods per day etc. It is inherited from the term or year group, or can be set individually.See help for Class group configuration.