The Multi-week timetable module has two important features:

First, you can manage lessons taking place irregularly in a timetable of otherwise regular lessons, e.g. a period of physical education taking place in the afternoon every second week or a photography workshop taking place once a month.

And you can also divide your timetable into different time ranges, i.e. terms. This is necessary whenever the timetable changes during the school year. If new teachers start teaching, for instance, at the beginning of a semester, you simply create a new term for this purpose. Within this term you can create a totally new timetable, although the existing timetable remains the same for the first half year.

One of the big administrative tasks when planning a new school year is the distribution of given tasks among the teachers. ‘Lesson planning’ supports you with many a tool, you can even automatically distribute the lessons among the teachers. You enter the teaching qualification and Untis does the rest for you.

If a teacher is absent, the open periods need to be distributed among the other teachers. The Substitution planning module provides you with solution suggestions with only one click to guarantee smooth operation even if a teacher is absent. You instantly see who among the teachers is available. Untis also shows you who among the teachers teaches the subject which needs to be substituted, and who already knows the class which needs substitution. Just one click and you see if other periods can be held earlier, and you of course also have the possibility to let Untis automatically schedule open substitution periods.

You specify where and in which break your students need to be supervised and Untis does all the work for you. Existing timetables are taken into account, as well as any specifications you have defined regarding how many break supervisions teachers are allowed to do. You can of course schedule individual or all supervisions manually, and Untis will support you with any information you need.

Break supervision can be displayed in many ways, e.g. in the teachers’ timetables.

The Break supervision module interacts with Untis’ ‘Substitution planning’ module. If a colleague reports themselves ill, you can quickly find a substitution for his/her break supervisions as well.

This module makes it possible to work with real yearly periods. They can be distributed randomly over the school year, and their position in the timetable can even vary completely each week. The ‘Untis Calendar and full year planning’ module can automatically distribute the yearly periods across the school year according to your specifications.

In many school systems, e.g. in Germany’s sixth form, students can select their lessons individually. This means that it is no longer the classes but the individual students who are the focus of the timetable planning. Since all students can select their courses individually, they have their own personal timetable.  

Course optimisation calculates clusters (lines) of lessons which can take place simultaneously. These clusters are then the basis of the algorithm calculating the timetable.  

In larger educational institutions, individual departments sometimes work decentrally on their timetable. Untis gives you the opportunity to separate the overall timetable of the school into files for individual departments. After having completed the department timetables individually, you can merge them into one overall timetable and, if necessary, optimise it once again. This way the timetables.