Our school schedules elementary students different than it does high school. For this reason, the administrators already have the elementary schedule down and decided (i.e.: it is already been decided who is in what class with what teacher when). Basically, each student stays in one room with one teacher (who teachers every subject) for the entire day (each day is the same setup in the week). Since we already know the schedule, we do not need EE to generate one for us. Is there an easy way to assign students to teachers with courses/classes so that FAWEB will work without having to go through all the trouble of assigning course requests, etc. Thanks. [i]--- Edited at 8/28/2006 11:09:32 AM by Tim M.[/i] [i]--- Edited at 8/28/2006 11:10:03 AM by Tim M.[/i]

Absolutely! I can't get my administrators to try the automatic scheduling, so they create it by hand and then it gets entered into the system manually. But how to do that is far beyond what can be described in this forum, I'm afraid.

You can globally add their homeroom teacher [through the EE Administration menu] to their bio page, then add them by homeroom to their classes. It isn't difficult and goes quickly. Linda

Yes, I also use the homeroom entered on the Bio Page. Once they have assigned all ES students a homeroom, this is what I do: 1. Assign course requests to those students using the homeroom 2. Then I just "Load Master Schedule" for all ES Students into ALL ES classes - and they all get scheduled at once.

The process that we ended up using to schedule our students was fairly painless although took a little time: We assigned the students each a homeroom and homeroom teacher. We created a core course request list for the elementary courses needed for each grade. Using the scheduler, we created the number of classes needed. Using "generate student schedules" we used two queries to filter on - one of all the students in a particular homeroom and one for each of the classes that I wanted to scheduler the students into (remember, we already knew what students would go where). Running the scheduler used the course requests to schedule only those students into those classes. Scheduling each subsequent homeroom was as easy as changing both query's criteria and running the scheduler again.