- All
- New conditions
- Planner
- Engine
- Editor
- Data exchange with other applications
- GHC App
1. New conditions
Optional setting of new conditions to the timetable solution, both strict and weighting.
You can strictly establish a maximum number of class units to be taught continuously to each teacher, or force them to have the hour before or after break time free.
The different sessions of each subject must be taught in the same classroom, even if there are several alternative classrooms.
The weekly distribution of the teachers' complementary activities allows the establishment of a minimum daily duration.
A flexible weekly distribution can be configured for each subject, with a daily maximum and minimum, which can be increased up to seven school hours.
Ensure at least -n- free intervals between the first and the last hours of each teacher's timetable, both during the same day, and between departure and arrival the following day, differentiating between Friday and Monday.
Maximum weekly and daily teacher presence, with strict and preferential values to be set independently.
It is possible to configure the maximum and minimum daily occupation of each teacher, both for class units and taking into account other types of activities.
If a group of students has a larger frame than necessary for their class units, they can force the empty positions in their frame to necessarily coincide with those marked as non-preferential in their template.
In the case of groups of students that are far apart, it is strictly forbidden for teachers who share a timetable with one or the other group to have to make a double journey on the same day.
2. Planner
Configuring the timetable and using the software is even easier by employing new options.
You can copy the content from one week to another or choose the week you want to delete.
When a selection is made in the list of class units through an element, its assignments are reported and it is allowed to change it for another one.
New user profiles for using subgroups of students, enabling exchange with other external applications that use subgroups, or individual students, allowing optimal timetables to be created for students in schools of music.
From the list of class units you can modify the assignment of all selected items.
Configuration validation reports more quickly and efficiently what might be wrong with the configuration to find a timetable.
The timetable analyser finds minimum sets of class units that do not fit together, which would allow determining those circumstances that interfere with each other and prevent solutions.
The debugger allows the engine to be launched without some of the strict conditions set in the configuration, in order to determine which ones might prevent complete results.
Looking for partial solutions will help you to debug impossible conditions.
The pre-set positions of groups, teachers, classrooms, etc. are reflected in the templates for their class units.
It allows you to configure different weekly timetables. This option can be useful, for example, to organise four-month timetables, or to plan a six-week academic year with different contents during each week.
It is possible to set the number of students in groups, the number of class units, and the capacity of classrooms, verifying that the allocations are correct.
3. Engine
The GHC engine increases its performance by obtaining and optimizing results.
If there are several frames and intervals with a fractional duration, or if teachers are assigned to break time, the maximum teacher stay is more precisely observed.
The engine improves its efficiency to find and optimize the solution to more complicated schedules, with contiguous blocks or consecutive sessions.
The conditions for maintaining a maximum and minimum number of daily class units in the teachers' timetable are more precisely observed.
The placement of on-call hours during school hours and break time is improved.
Better management of slack in the timetable of groups of students to create better timetables, by moving free time slots to non-preferred positions in the template, or to the ends of the timetable.
4. Editor
GHC makes it easier to modify or complete the timetables offered by the engine, more display options, reports, etc.
New wizard to automatically search for combinations to move class units within the editor.
The occupancy templates of all timetable elements can be modified from the editor.
When presenting the timetable of groups, the editor allows you to set a minimum number of splits of the group from which your elective subjects are detailed at the bottom of the table.
When performing drag-and-drop operations on the result tables, the possible destinations of the class units being moved are highlighted in different colours.
Printed lists of teachers in a department.
Signature sheet for attendance control. It generates forms for each day of the week or each date to collect the signatures of teachers by classrooms or groups of students.
Better choice of classrooms in the automatic allocation when adding or moving class units on the timetable, informing the classrooms that are occupied.
Assigning or moving class units on a timetable in the editor makes a more complete and accurate diagnosis of possible violations of the conditions that were previously configured in the Planner.
PDF presentation of the complete timetable of groups, teachers or classrooms in sheet format.
The start and end times can be presented in the PDF format: in a column on the left side of the table, as a grid, or within each cell.
5. Data exchange with other applications
These processes are subject to a ongoing maintenance.
Exporting the timetable from the editor allows you to check the keys being used in the timetable against those currently provided in a file downloaded from the corresponding external application. In this way, it is possible to validate that the keys used exist and are correctly assigned.
New academic management applications with which GHC exchanges configuration data and timetables: Algebraix, FENICIA and STILUS.
From the GHC planner, class units can be added via the Windows clipboard and CSV files.
You can, either from the Planner or from the Editor, make an import from an external application to complete data or exchange keys.
Import and export through other open formats.
6. GHC App
The online platform is integrated with the rest of GHC's processes. It facilitates collaborative work to generate the timetable and carry out a complete day-to-day management.
Edit the timetable on specific dates without having to publish a new timetable. Create a session on a specific date that does not repeat, delete sessions on a day with a group if they go on a field trip, or reflect evaluation meetings in each teacher's schedule.
You can use GHC APP WEB from any web browser. The native applications of GHC APP MOBILE are available for both Android and iOS. The management team, teachers and students will be connected through a system that allows you to define the permissions for each type of user.
The timetable viewer allows you to share the timetables of your educational institution. If your school has termly or quarterly timetables, different timetables will be published for different dates.
Through the management of absences and substitutions, the teacher will request or communicate an absence to the head of studies, allowing a quick and simple management organizing and automatically notifying substitutions.
Capture of preferences is used before the start of the school year to collect information needed to make the timetable, such as subject and group assignments or other teacher choices. The process is automated around the head of department, which speeds up the collection of data from the head of studies for timetabling.
Merging of solution files. From the file platform it will be possible to merge two files obtained separately. This will allow to create a single timetable with all the information to publish it in GHC APP or export it to other applications.
Access to a remote repository. From the GHC file platform you can share your timetables over the Internet, facilitating joint work and access from multiple devices. It will also serve as a backup copy of your timetables in case of possible damage or loss of files.
The cloud engine runs as a service over the Internet. It is different from the classic engine, which runs locally on your own computer. The cloud engine is offered together with your subscription as an alternative to the classic engine.