Automatic generation

The fastest and the easiest way of making a schedule for the whole school year is to use our automatic

generation procedure. It automaticly generates the whole schedule based on the information you have

provided for lecturers, locations, programs, subject areas, courses and students.

You can also guide the automatic generation process by blocking some terms for lecturers and groups,

reserving the locations or by locking or unlocking the schedules you have already made.

Automatic generation will not insert course into timetable where is made any blockade or reservation.

Courses that are locked will not be removed.

Automatic generation will try to insert course in preferable location. If for any reason course could not be

inserted in preferable location (e.g. location is blocked), it would be inserted in any other location.

Automatic generation considers the number of seats in the room and the number of students.

Automatic generation will insert a course in a location that has at least prerequisite equipment for the course.

So it can insert a course in the location that has more equipment as needed. In location where you tick use

exclusively will be inserted only courses that need exactly the same equipment as it is in the location.

To start automatic generation process click the Generate button on the tool bar.

You can optimize the process of automatic generation by choosing programs and years which you want

to generate and setting up the percentage of deviation for the number of students and the number of seats

in the room. Setting up the percentage of deviation means that you can allow the program to occupy a location

with less seats than there are students in the group or to allow program to occupy a bigger room for a smaller

group of students. The percentage of deviation controls all that.

You can watch the progress of the automatic generation process. You can also

terminate the process by clicking the Terminate button.

The progress is shown with numbers which have one after another meanings:

- the number of iteration,

- the number of allocated courses,

- the number of groups' pauses and

- the number of lecturers' pauses.

Next message is shown when automatic generation is finished. The first number in the bracket

shows all pauses for all groups and the second all pauses for all lecturers.