Example: step 5

Click on <Start Room Optimisation>. Click on the button again when the room optimisation run finishes.

As you can see, the room optimisation tool has allocated the home room (R1a) for most of the lessons of class 1a and the designated subject room (PE and Design) for some of the lessons.

Please note the situation for classes without a designated room. Before room optimisation, class 3b was scheduled to have lessons in room R1a on Tuesday, periods 4 and 5. Class 4 was scheduled for room R1a on Saturday, period 4. The room optimisation tool moved both classes to another room since the placement violated the rule that a class must not be displaced from its home room.

After the room optimisation run, the situation is very different. Class 1a is back in its home room on Tuesday, period 4 and 5, and on Saturday, period 4. Instead, class 3b occupies room R1a on Monday, period 4, when class 1a is scheduled to have a PE lesson in the sports hall. Class 4 is scheduled in R1a on Saturday, period 5, because again, the room is not required by class 1a .

Any periods not yet allocated to a suitable room (as is often the case for classes without a designated room) can be assigned manually using the scheduling dialogue.