What is the best way to insert a lunch period? Should I add it as a break time or an activity? The answer to this may depend on the answer to my next (related) question.
Is there a way to have FET schedule teachers to work during break times? Once or twice a week each teacher is required to work 'break duty,' which involves them standing outside with the students during break so they don't kill each other. It would be nice for us if FET could schedule these and include them in statistics.
Our breaks are 10 minutes in duration, and only occur three times a day. We also have the aforementioned lunch period, which is 50 minutes in duration.
In a break there are definitely no activities. So you need to do this with activities.
Do you care about students' gaps? If so, you need to make the students not available during break FET-hours/activities. Also, if you care about teachers' gaps, you need to add dummy activities for all the breaks for all teachers, with preferred times in the real-life break slots. Only one or two of these will have the subject "supervision".
But there is really a problem with the duration, if you cannot specify the duration of each activity from the start.
OK thanks.
I'm pretty sure I understand your explanation of adding teacher break duty to the timetable. Am I correct though that you have explained how to have FET display break duty for each teacher on the timetable? I am looking more for FET to carry out assigning each teacher one or two random days on which to perform break duty. Does FET have that functionality?
>> But there is really a problem with the duration, if you cannot specify the duration of each activity from the start.
Are you referring here solely to my other issue about primary/secondary schedule differences? Or are you speaking her about a more general, more serious issue I have with my timetable in terms of period duration?
Quote from: panyadee on March 19, 2016, 03:57:27 PM
OK thanks.
I'm pretty sure I understand your explanation of adding teacher break duty to the timetable. Am I correct though that you have explained how to have FET display break duty for each teacher on the timetable? I am looking more for FET to carry out assigning each teacher one or two random days on which to perform break duty. Does FET have that functionality?
You need to specify for each teacher the exact number of times he is having break, as activities (one or two activities per week).
Or, you could use the constraint activities max simultaneous in selected time slots. All activities, all time slots of the week, n_teachers-1. So each slot will have at least a free teacher for you to choose. But you might need to choose three or more times the same teacher per week.
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>> But there is really a problem with the duration, if you cannot specify the duration of each activity from the start.
Are you referring here solely to my other issue about primary/secondary schedule differences? Or are you speaking her about a more general, more serious issue I have with my timetable in terms of period duration?
I hope this problem will be solved, as I posted here: http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/forum/index.php?topic=2379.msg12926#msg12926