To add a classroom, type the room identification and name in the text boxes and click
on the Add button. To remove a classroom, click on the room in the list and then
click on the Remove button. All classrooms and special rooms which will be used
for teaching, should be entered.
To alter the identification or name of a room, click on the room in the list then
overtype and click on the Add button. Bear in mind that if the identification of a room
is changed the program will automatically change the room identification wherever it
occurs in the school data.
Use of the classroom facility is optional. Using the program for the first time
you may wish to leave rooms out to begin with and add them in later, after you
have succeeded in creating a timetable.
There are two ways to use rooms. The recommended way is to assign rooms to teachers,
or groups of rooms to groups of teachers. For example, if the Art teacher will give
all lessons in the Art room, then assign the Art room to that teacher and no other.
Similarly, assign the Science labs to the Science teachers. The assignment of rooms
will be done automatically by the program, but you will be able to swop rooms after
the timetable has been constructed.
An alternative way of assigning rooms is to assign a room to a specific subject
taken by a particular class. This method should be used very sparingly because it
increases the complexity of the timetable solution process, and this can lead
to a poor quality timetable.