preferred breaks for students

[matthb]

hiya,

my college doesnt have any global breaks in order to maximize room loading efficiency.

it is possible to create a rule that puts in a preferred break of 2 slots for each sub-group during a particular time period?

for example.

group Elec1A would prefer to have a half hour break (2 slots) somewhere between 11.30 and 13.30, but it doesnt matter where it is in that bracket.

many thanks

[Volker Dirr]

You can't use break in that case.

You can use:
a) dummy activities. so add an activity "lunch" each day with min n day constraint weight 100% and set preferred times for this activities.

b) maybe you can use max continuous hours per day for students. (depending on you dataset, maybe impossible)

c) maybe use the "a set of activities occupies max time slots". sadly you must set this yourself to each students set.

[matthb]

many thanks.. the dummy activity might be worth a shot. didnt think of that.

cheers for the quick reply