Space constraints for multiple course activities

[zblakley]

Greetings,

For some activities a Year level divides as A, B, C; but they mix differently for a particular subject.

For simple cases, I have scheduled this by creating a single activity including the entire year group and each teacher of the various classes (they would all be occurring at the same time). This works well until coming to space.

There are four preferred rooms for this activity, but FET knows it can't cram the whole year group into one of these rooms and halts the generation. There does not appear to be a way to give an activity multiple rooms.

I have seen a 'dummy class' solution with 'activities at the same time' constraints, but would like to know if there are other potential options for assigning rooms to these grouped class activities.

Thank you

[Liviu Lalescu]

Hello, Zack,

To add multiple rooms for an activity, you need to use a virtual room (or more). Please create a room, click "Make/edit virtual" and click "Help" to see how to use virtual rooms for your purpose. There is a discussion here on the forum in which we reached this solution: https://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/forum/index.php?topic=4249.0 , and some other post(s) about virtual rooms usage.

[Vangelis Karafillidis]

Hello! I think that you should "describe" in detail the real tree structure of your school. If you do this successfully, then you can add the real activities with the real formations of the new groups, which are formed of subgroups of the initial A, B and C groups. For example, if for this "particular subject" the A, B and C groups are mixed in another way, so that A1, B1 and C1 *subgroups of A, B and C) form a new "group" and A2, B2, and C2 (subgroups of A, B and C) another new "group", you should add these activities with these new "groups", i.e. A1+B1+C1 and A2+B2+C2.
Vangelis.

[zblakley]

Excellent,

Virtual rooms solved that beautifully!

Vangelis, Thank you for the suggestion, I would agree that year group divisions would have been a more explicit and precise solution (and I am using this for some of the classes); unfortunately the number of choices made a dizzying number of subgroups to assign and track, so in simple cases like this one, I just lumped them all together. Thanks to the Virtual Rooms, it will work out.

Once again, my gratitude,

Zack

[Liviu Lalescu]

You are welcome, Zack!