Automatic generation

The most convenient manner for making a schedule for the entire school year is to use the automatic generation process. It automatically generates the entire schedule based on the information you have provided for lecturers, rooms, programs, subject areas, courses and students.

You can also guide the automatic generation process by blocking some time slot for lecturers and groups, reserving the rooms or by locking or unlocking the schedules you have already made.

Automatic generation will not insert a course in the timetable where a blockade or a reservation is already made.

Courses that are locked will not be removed.

The automatic generation will try to insert a course in the preferable room. If for any reason the course cannot be inserted in the preferable room (e.g. room is blocked), it is inserted in any other room.

The automatic generation takes the number of seats in a room and the number of students into account.

The automatic generation inserts a course in the room that has at least the prerequisite equipment for the course, i.e. it can insert a course in a room that has more equipment than needed. If use exclusively is checked next to a room, only courses  requiring the exact equipment that it available in that room will be inserted there.

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

You can optimize the automatic generation process by choosing the programs and the years which you want to generate and by setting the percentage of deviation for the number of students and the number of seats in a room. Setting the percentage of deviation means that you allow the program to occupy a room with less seats than there are students in the group or to allow the program to occupy a bigger room for a smaller group of students.

You can monitor the progress of the automatic generation process. You can also terminate the process by clicking the Terminate button.