The timetable planning in educational institutions is a constant challenge that we face thanks to your collaboration. Considering your requests, in order to facilitate this complex task, GHC offers a key improvement in its functionality: the possibility of planning the class units of each subject with a flexible weekly distribution, being able to have up to 9 consecutive hours in the same day.
Use for VET institutions
VET institutions require vocational modules with weekly distributions using large blocks, which are difficult to fit into the timetable. Many of their modules require blocks of practical or theoretical classes. GHC allows you to create optimised timetables, ensuring that students receive their training in class units of the most appropriate length within the possible combinations.
It is important to highlight that in order to find the best solutions for VET vocational modules using multi-duration blocks, it is usually necessary to provide the solutions with flexibility for their weekly distribution, as otherwise rigid blocks can easily prevent results or make them too strict for optimisation.
In this way, establishments can:
- Adjust the duration of the class units of the training modules within each day with a maximum and minimum duration.
- Optimise the use time of classrooms, laboratories or specialised workshops for practical classes.
- Coordinate the FCT (Workplace Training), allowing the school timetable to be adapted to the availability of collaborating companies.
- Reduce or avoid empty intervals in timetables of teachers and students.
Use for primary schools
Providing a flexible weekly distribution for the class units of each subject in primary schools can also be very useful if the timetable framework used contains intervals with a split duration. That is, half-hour or three-quarter-hour periods, together with one-hour class unit. In such cases, it can be very difficult to decide a priori the length of the class units over which the weekly load of each subject is to be distributed. It is often not possible for schools to divide each subject into split periods, so that the timetables can be resolved in such a way as to allow for the following.
Both to set up class units with a duration longer than 5, and to provide flexibility in the weekly distribution of multiple duration class units, this option is very useful.
A powerful and adaptable tool
Thanks to the possibility of scheduling class units for each subject with a flexible weekly distribution, GHC allows managers to create adjusted timetables considering legal restrictions, but also other flexible criteria such as resource availability and teachers’ preferences.
Experience the intuitive and powerful interface offered by the GHC planner, and launch the optimisation engine to make creating and adjusting timetables as quick and easy as possible.