Chapman’s Handy Teachers’ Weekly Rotating Timetable Generator
Welcome
to my free utility, designed to help visiting (eg music) teachers make their termly timetables. It takes into account the fact that pupils should not normally be taken out of the same lesson until a number of weeks have passed (which I call the 'rotation period'). Additional conditions can also be set (under 'Rules').
To begin with, please load the 'Demo School' (right) and click through the tabs to see how it all works.
There is also a video tutorial here.
Manage schools
Saved schools:
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Pupil info
Nothing to see here yet - load a school on the Home tab, or make a new one
Under Rotation, enter the number of weeks that must pass before a pupil can have a lesson at the same time. Enter zero to follow the default setting applied in the Timetable tab.
Term dates
Nothing to see here yet - load a school on the Home tab, or make a new one
Enter as words and numbers eg 2 mar 2018 or March 2 2018 (do include year). Untick the box for weeks when you won't be teaching, eg half term. Enter dates manually or generate dates starting from
Lesson times
Nothing to see here yet - load a school on the Home tab, or make a new one
Enter as 24hr clock with four digits and a full stop eg 09.25 (will be sorted alphabetically). Untick the box for times when you won't be teaching, eg lunch break. If you insert a pipe (|) text before it will be ignored.
Rules
Nothing to see here yet - load a school on the Home tab, or if you have made a new one, add some pupils, dates and times.
Here you can define any conditions for pupils who can't, or must, make specific times/dates. Select a pupil and an option, then click lesson cells. Click a checkbox to select a whole row or column. You will need to click Update on the Timetable tab to see the effect of any new rules.
| Clear all rules | |
| Set past lessons as rules |
Nothing to see here yet - load a school on the Home tab, or if you have made a new one, add some pupils, dates and times.
| Revise | |
| Rotation | |
| Fill mode | |
| Preferred lesson times | |
| Appearance | |
| Display | |
| Names | |
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| School | |
| Name of School | |
| Display Title | |
| Display Subtitle | |
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Hover over a row for more information - for detailed explanation go to Help