Section: Rooms

Optimisation of room allocation

Via the 'Room Weight' field under 'Rooms | Master data' you define how important a room is for a lesson. A room without specific equipment can easily be replaced by another room (enter 0), a PE lesson only makes sense when the sports hall is available (enter 4).

The 'Optimisation of room allocation' weighting controls the level of importance of the entered room weighting.

Warning:

If the weighting slider is set to 5 ('extremely important') or 4 ('very important') and if, in addition, the room weighting of the subject room is set to 4, the lesson will not be scheduled unless a suitable subject room can be found.

Optimisation of the off-site rooms

- Controls the level of compliance with the specified walking times required to reach off-site buildings (e.g. external sites). Please refer to chapter 'User tips | Off-site rooms' for further details.

Take room capacity into consideration

As a rule, the optimisation tool and the room optimisation function attempt to allocate a room with a room capacity appropriate for the number of students in the class. If this presents a problem, the programme searches for a room that is slightly larger than required. In extreme cases, the software may allocate a room that is slightly smaller than required.