Headmaster, deputy, administrator

1 User rights - Overview
The administrator can access the User rights overview by clicking "Overview" in the left menu and selecting "User rights". The administrator can see an overview of all teachers, and the user rights they have been granted...

(user rights, overview of user rights)

1 Payments module
...Payments module be found? The Payments module can be found in the left menu ... The school records received payments in EduPage - manual input ... If you are at the end of one school year and at the beginning of a new one, please read how to correctly move payment plans and other payment data...

(payments, fees, payment plan, ID numbers, import of bank statement, automatic assignment)

1 Creating a new payment plan
...Payment plan is the tool how to announce new fees to the students and parents ... Do not create cantine payment plans in the Payments module, but rather follow the instructions in ...

(school fee, payment plan, trips, school club, specific symbol)

1 Electronic applications
General information about the admissions module can be found in the article about admissions. To use electronic applications, please prepare and publish the electronic application form on your school webpage, where it can be filled in by the applicants. Follow the instructions below. 1...

(application, application to study)

1 How a user sets up a bank account information for return money payments
...returns possible overpayments...

(payments module, payments settings, )

1 Payments - overview of payments for parents on the web
...payments in the "Payments" module ... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- How to select and pay a payment plan item To pay a payment plan item (specific fee) e...

(parent´s account, web, fees, bank accounts, payment plan, teacher´s payment plan, payment settings)

1 How to display the payments and fees to students, parents and teachers
...payments for different groups of users and for different bank accounts/cash payments...

(visibility of payments and fees, visibility of payment plans related to specific bank account, visibility of payment plans)

1 Administrator's rights for Payments module
...Payments module can handle the Payments module as the administrator...

(right to administration of payments module, user rights, )

1 Modifications of payment plans
It is advisable to create a modification of a payment plan for students, who pay a different amount (e.g. a discount in tuition fee) than stated in the original payment plan. Add a modification to the payment plan and select the affected students...

(how to add a modification, assign a modification)

1 How to assign a payment plan (modification) to a student
Assigning a payment plan to a student means that the student is required to pay fees listed in the payment plan. One student can be assigned several payment plans...

(assign of payment plan, assign of modification, individual assignment, mass assignment)

1 How to remove payment plan/modification from student
... If there is a payment assigned to the fee we need to change the assignment of the payment to other payment plan - There are two options how to remove payment plan/modification for specific student: in the "Users" section editing the payment plan in the "Payment plans" secti...

(removing of payment plan, individual removing, mass removing)

1 How to assign payment plan modification to students under/over 18 (3,4,5...)
... The following instructions explain how to assign payment plan modification ( ) based on the student's age...

(payment plan, modification, birth date, assign the modification, students over 18, students under)

1 Printing fees and payments
... If the administrator has authorized displaying fees to teachers in the payments settings, the teachers can print reports too ... Print reports will show only the displayed payment plans to the users...

(print fees, print fees and payments, print settings, )

1 Import of payments from bank statement
...payments from the bank statement enables school record payments quickly, without mistakes and with no duplicity...

(import of payments, bank statement, credit payments, debit payments)

1 Change of payment's assignment
... The whole amount of the payment is used to pay just payments for school club...

(payment´s assignment, change of assignment, flexible assignment, permanent assignment)

1 Assigning payment to multiple users
... Error in assigning a payment to multiple payers A warning icon displayed in the payments' row indicates that the sum of assigned payments is not equal to the amount received in the payment...

(payment can not be assigned, manual assignment, assignment to multiple users)

1 Return payments - How to generate a batch payment order for the bank
... Necessary prerequisites and settings before generating a batch payments file In order to generate a batch payments order to the bank ... return overpayments to - item 10 ... Filters - how to search for overpayments properly ... it is important to record these payments paid from the school account...

(batch payment, overpayments, payment plan, bank account details, credit, debit payments)

1 Return payments - How to record return of overpayment/payment
...payments ... Either way, it is important to record the payment upon its settlement ... You also need to select the type of payment (cash, cheque, bank transfer, the return payment of the initial credit)...

(refund, returned payment, entered manually, import from bank statement, debit payments, )

1 Teacher - Creating a cash collection on the web
... A new cash collection can teacher create in the payments module logged in as a teacher: After few steps the new teacher´s cash collection is created ... Parent has information what, how much and until when to pay and sends money to school...

(cash collection, web, teacher´s payment plan, cinema, workbooks, photo shooting)

1 Teacher - creating a payment plan via the Registration module - even for students from other courses
... the teacher does not have a course created for these students) - they have an option to create and manage a payment plan with payments directed to a school account...

(payment plan, registration, manage actions, modifications)

1 Define type of payers and set up food price
In order to determine the amount payable by individual boarders, and the size of the meal portion, you need to set 'Types of payers & Food-Price'...

(type of payer, food price)

1 History of the payment plan with the possibility to restore the previous settings
...payments module there is also available the history of changes for each payment plan ... ==> record on one line with date ... How to restore the previous settings of the payment plan...

(payment plan, history of the payment plan, date of change, time of change, author of change, restore settings, restore)

1 Automatic sending of notifications - related to changes in payments plans and visibility of payment plans
... To stop sending the notifications temporarily can be done clicking on the button Notifications: To restart sending the notifications after all the changes are done please follow the next steps: How to find out to whom and what the notifications were sent:...

(notifications, stop sending, restart sending, payment plans, visibility of payment plan, )

1 How to add refund to the payment plan (for trips, excursios, etc.)
... How to add refund to the payment plan: 1 ... return money just to some students ... - as soon as you return the money to the participants you can record the debit payments in EduPage - ...

(refund of the whole fee, refund of the part of the fee, reduction of the fee)

1 How to change the fee in the payment plan
The situations during the school year can sometimes change and it is necessary to adjust the fees that were set at the beginning. The procedures depends on whether the fee has been changed for all payers or only for specific payers...

(change of fee for one particular student, change of fee for all students in payment plan)

1 Out of service days - when the canteen does not cook.
I. CLOSED FOR THE ENTIRE SCHOOL If there is a public holiday, vacation, administrative leave, quarantine, or any other event when the canteen does not prepare meals for any boarders , the correct procedure is to set 'Out of service'...

(Out of service days)

1 Setting of school bank accounts and rights in payment module
...payments from parents...

(payments settings, bank account, administrator - payments, administrator - canteen, visibility to payers, user rights)

1 How to pay school fees from EduPage mobile app
...payments module to communicate school´s fees to parents ... You can mark selected fee (one or more if you want to pay fees for several months) and you can see possible options how to pay...

(fee, payment plan, maturity date, variable symbol, QR code)

1 Payments for parents - basic questions
...Parent can set up also the bank account details for returning payments ... HOW TO PAY A FEE...

(parent, parent´s account, payments module, variable symbol, bank transfer)

1 Quick start with payment module
... There is need to set up all bank accounts for cashless payments - e ... Second step is to define Payment plans - what, how much and until when to pay...

(bank account, payment plan, to create a payment plan, school fee, cantine fee, excursion)

1 How to confirm the imported payments
...payments imported from the bank statement based on the assignment attributes: variable symbol (Ref...

(individual confirmation of payment, mass confirmation of payment)

1 Administration of several payment plans linked to one bank account - use of specific symbol
...payments for several payment plan there is possibility to use the specific symbols ... System recognized the specific symbol and has assigned the payment to the right payment plan: How to import the payments from the bank statement: ...

(bank account, payment plan, specific symbol, payment matching, several payment plans)

1 Mass reassignment of already assigned payments from one payment plan to another
...payments from one payment plan to another we can use the button Tools...

(payment, assignment, payment plan, change of payment plan)

1 How to enter the different fee for each user in one payment plan
In case you need to create a payment plan with different fee for each user you can use the tool Import students fees while creating a new payment plan/editing the existing one. In our example we create the payment plan Swimming with different fee for each user...

(payment plan, different fee, import of fees, Excel)

1 How to set own maturity date in the payment plan
...record the date of signing the tuition contract in case of private schools; etc...

(payment plan, creating a new payment plan, editing the payment plan, own maturity date)

1 How to change the school´s bank account
... school changes the bank) this has to be recorded in EduPage ... In Payments you can filter payments made to new bank account and also for the old one...

(bank account, change of bank account, same purpose)

1 How to add a guest in payments module
...payments module can be done in section Users...

(guest, guest account, payments module)

1 How to access the list of parents' accounts
Administrator: Select the "Setup wizard" option on the main page. Search for "Basic school data". Select "Parents" in the top menu. The username to parent EduPage account is the parent's email address, unless the background color indicates different...

1 What is aSc Substitution software good for?
... Here is the simplified description of what the software can help you with and how it works: 1...

1 How to access online substitution
You can access aSc Substitution directly from "Start page - Substition" or from main menu "Substitution". You must be logged as administrator or as a teacher with user's rights to do substitution administration...

1 How to organize teaching preparations in EduPage
... How to add a material to preparations? ...

1 Where can the teacher see the students results during an interactive lesson?
... This information can help you in deciding whether to continue with your presentation, or whether to return to the problematic topic...

1 Where does the teacher find the students' results after the end of interactive lesson?
After the end of the interactive lesson the teacher can find the students' results in the Results/Blackboard tab. The results of a specific interactive lesson are saved in the Results of the course from which the presentation had been launched...

1 How can a student with unknown EduPage login data connect to the interactive lesson?
To connect to the interactive lesson, the students have to be logged in to their EduPage accounts. The best option is to log in via (updated) EduPage mobile application. If for a reason, a student can't log in to their EduPage account, they can participate in the interactive lesson anyway...

1 Operating elements of the interactive lesson
As soon as the teacher launches an interactive presentation, a new window opens in their browser. It displays the presentation. The presentation can be played on a projector. In the former window the teacher can see their EduPage on the left and the presentation control pannel on the right...

1 How do students connect to interactive lesson?
As soon as the teacher launches projecting a presentation on an interactive blackboard or projector, a green notification displays in the students' mobile application. Clicking this notification connects the students to the interactive lesson...

1 Various approaches to running an interactive lesson
... Option 3: If the teacher uses notebook or a smartphone that cannot be connected to the projector physically, or another computer is connected to the projector, they can make use of the following solution: How the students connect to the interactive lesson The student simply connects to the pr...

1 Interactive lesson
Interactive lesson - video EduPage interactive lessons enable the teacher to captivate the students attention and engage them in the topic. The teacher has an overview of students' grasp of the topic...

1 How to print out the Agreement on personal data processing (GDPR)
In EduPage you can create and print out an Agreement on personal data processing. Press the Start button in the top left corner, select the Security tab and click GDPR. Select Create the Agreement. Fill in the data. The system generates the agreement, which you can then print out...

1 What's new in Online substitutions
... Substitution collisions See, how you can solve colisions in substitutions...

Parents

1 How a user sets up a bank account information for return money payments
...returns possible overpayments...

(payments module, payments settings, )

1 How to create a recipients' group
When writing a message, the system will provide you with predifined groups of recipients - e.g. groups by courses. If necessary, you can create your own recipients' group. Click on the recipients selection button. Select the recipients of your message...

(send message to group, send message to multiple users)

1 Mobile application EduPage
If you have a smartphone, you can download EduPage mobile app: for Android at GooglePlay for iOS on iTunes Whether you are a teacher, parent or student, the majority of Edupage's rich functionality is also accessible through mobile application...

Teacher

1 Teacher - Creating a cash collection on the web
... A new cash collection can teacher create in the payments module logged in as a teacher: After few steps the new teacher´s cash collection is created ... Parent has information what, how much and until when to pay and sends money to school...

(cash collection, web, teacher´s payment plan, cinema, workbooks, photo shooting)

1 How to delete a course
Move the mouse over the course tile and the setting wheel appears in the lower right corner. Click it. You will see the course settings. Select to delete this course in the left bottom corner...

Students

1 How to create a recipients' group
When writing a message, the system will provide you with predifined groups of recipients - e.g. groups by courses. If necessary, you can create your own recipients' group. Click on the recipients selection button. Select the recipients of your message...

(send message to group, send message to multiple users)

1 Student - How to submit HW with attached file
Your homework requires file attachment. You receive a notification about the homework in EduPage application and on the web page: Prepare the file in your computer. Log in to your EduPage account. Find the message about the homework in your notifications...

1 Student - What does "Play online" in the test or homework mean?
If you have been assigned a test or homework with the "Play online" information displayed, click the message and select "Play material". The test or homework can either be elaborated online, or it contains a study material...

TimeTables

1 What is aSc Substitution software good for?
... Here is the simplified description of what the software can help you with and how it works: 1...

1 Download & Installation of PC version
You can always download the latest version of aSc TimeTables from our web page: 1. Open http://www.aScTimeTables.com and choose your country. 2. Click Download: 3. Download installation file for Windows computers. 4...

1 Class time off
By clicking on Time off... you can specify when a particular class can or cannot have the lessons. For example, if class 8...

1 Divisions
Each class can be divided into multiple divisions. Each division can divide the Class into unlimited number of groups: When creating a lesson, you always specify a group for this lesson. For example Physical education - 2 times per week for the group Boys...

1 Class lessons
You can display all lessons assigned to the class via Classes - select the class - click Lessons. You can sort the list according each column - simply click on its header...

1 Class - constraints
For each class you can set core constraints. In dialog "Classes", select the class and click on the button "Constrains". The dialog "Class details" will appear: In this dialog you can: A: You can allow the class to arrive on second period...

1 What are classes (grade levels).
In aSc Timetables by "the class" we understand a group of students, with mostly the same timetable during a school year . E.g. - all students in the 5th grade are divided into six classes - 5A, 5B, 5C, 5D, 5E, 5F...

1 How to specify when a class can have a lunch?
If your students have the lunch during break between 5th and 6th period or if all your students can have their lunch after their lessons, you don't need to care about entering lunch in the program. If all classes have lunch during 6th period, you can define this with Time-off for classes...

1 Number of students in class and groups
For each class you can specify number of it's students: You can also specify the size of each group if you are using the groups: See also: ...

1 Subject's classrooms
For each subject you can specify predefined classrooms in which this subject should be taught - so called "Subject's classrooms"...

1 Time-off
treba to prepísať všeobecne + prelinkovať na ostatné články,kde sa to používa - otáznikové pozície, dve smeny v rozvrhu, overovanie..." v poznamkach treba pripomenut, aby nezadavali navzajom blokujúce sa volna na jednej hodine - ucitel moze iba v pondelok, ale predmet ucebna nemoze byt.....

1 How to specify that class can have max one 7th lesson or max one 0lesson?
Simple solution: First define the quesion marked positions: Then you can say the class shall have max one lesson on the question marked positions. This can be done in Class's details: Complex solution: The simple solution cannot be used if you want to specify two conditions...

1 Education block - allow some classes to come later or to leave school earlier.
... However if the class has 32 lessons and you want to allow 5-9 lessons each day, you have to set the teaching block manually...

(manually set educational block,)

1 Can I set the min/maximum number of lessons per day for one class?
... It shows you how you can overide the automatic teaching block calculation: So if you use an automatic teaching block that calculates 6-8 per day, the software will not put 9 lessons per day...

1 Education block - Checking of gaps in class timetables
... Program may show one of these problems in verification (Menu - Timetable - Verification): * Class (class name) contains a window * (Card) is out of teaching block When you click on one of these problems...

1 Avoid single lesson after lunch break.
... How to input this constraint? Answer: This is a bit tricky: You have to define three constraints to achieve this: 1) Define lunch break at periods 6-7 in menu - Specification - Classes - Details...

1 Both groups have to finish the education at the same time!
By default the software can generate a timetable where one half has English on Monday 6th period, while the other half goes home after the 5th period. The next day the groups are switched: This can greatly increase the chances of generating a timetable...

1 What does the warning 'The entered timetable is probably not complete' mean?
By default the software tries to create a timetable for each class that starts with 1st lesson. It also calculates the average lessons per day and tries to balance the lessons put per each day...

1 How to apply constraints to whole grades
toto ešte trochu učeš... Let's take a case, when you wish to specify constraints, that all "Music" lessons from each grade must be placed on the same day in the week. It means that all classes from 5th grade (5A, 5B, ...) must have these lessons in the same day...

1 Class can have max 2 gaps per day
The software doesn't create gaps for classes and students by default, but calculates the average number of lessons per day and then it places them consecutively. This is ensured by so-called "Educational block"...

1 Children can come to the school on second period, but only once per week
... Then you can limit how many times this will happen by advanced card relationship that says that class has to have at least 4 lessons on period 1:...

1 Our school works in two shifts, some classes come in the morning, some in the afternoon
If it is already decided which classes come in the morning and which in the afternoon, then you simply need to modify the time-off of the classes: You may need to raise the number of periods per day in menu Main/School...

1 Optimizing the room usage for students
... If certain room is not very good, but due to capacity you still have to use it, here is how to minimize the usage: 3...

1 At least one lesson per week has to be in certain classroom
... If you however just select "Apply to selected classes" the generator will only check if there is one PE lesson per class, which will mean that only boys will be in BigGym...

1 We have 3 lessons per week and they shall be in the same classroom
Problem: Lets say that class 5A has biology lesson three times per week. Biology lesson can be in BioLab1 or BioLab2 or BioLab3, the generator can choose one, but it has to be the same room for all 3 biology lessons. Solution: 1. Input the biology lesson so that it can be in any of the 3 labs: 2...

1 Lesson can be only once per week in certain classroom
... However it can happen that even though this room is only used 5 times, it maybe that one class have all their lessons in this basement room...

1 Reducing the room usage
The rules descibed in: shall help you to achieve the room assigment that is acceptable from the timetabling point of view. However once you have the timetable ready you may want to reduce the room usage for example to save on cleaning costs or to allow more room renting...

1 GymRoom can only be used 4 days per week(GymRoom has to be free on 3 afternoons)
If you specify only the afternoon lessons in the timeoff map, then the constraint will only count days where the classroom is used in the afternoon. So you can specify for example max 2 on afternoon lesson, this would mean that the classroom is free on 3 afternoons per week...

1 Concentrate groups of lessons into fewer classrooms
For example the have 3 laboratories and Biology and Chemistry lesson2 can be in any of these...

1 Student has to finish Biology before he can attend Biology practice
If student has to complete certain course(subject) before he can start with another you can use one of the following cardrelationships: Then just specify the two courses: ...

1 Subject has to be in consecutive weeks/terms
If you have a subject that has to be in 2 consecutive terms(it cannot be in term 1 and then in term4) you can input this cardrelationship: So you define that lesson as 2 times in "Any term" and add the above constraint...

1 Two subjects have to be at the same time in both weeks/terms
For example you have one doulbe lesson of Algebra on week A and one double lesson of Geometry in week B. The software may put them on different days, which is usually not a bad thing...

1 Is it possible to prevent two specific lessons from being taught simultaneously?
You can prevent two lessons from being taught simultenously by adding some resource (teacher/class/classroom) that is required by both lessons. If for example Math and Physics are taught by the same teacher, or they must be in the same classroom then this will happen automatically...

1 Specify how many lessons shall be before certain position
...how many lessons shall be before certain position...

1 Groups have to start at the same time
... If you need two subjects from different classes, please see: Now: how to make sure two groups start at the same time: Please check this picture...

1 The children cannot finish after 8th period, there is no bus after period 8 on our school...
Question: the children cannot finish the school after 8th period. The have to finish either after 7th or 9th...

1 I have double and single lessons but doubles cannot be on Monday
E.g you have e.g 3 single Math lessons and one double Math lessons. You do not want that double to be on Monday or on Wednesday...

1 Maximum one planning time lesson per day
The planning time lessons can be inputted as lessons without class. They are shown in teacher's timetable and they are independent from any class...

1 Biology in 5A has to be only on Wednesday (or Biology cannot be on Wednesday)
If you want a particular lesson to be just on one day you can use this cardrelationship: Basically it says you want 0 periods of biology in 5A on the marked days. Thus the Biology in 5A can only be on Wednesday...

1 What does the time map in advanced cardrelationships mean?
Let us consider this cardrelationship: As inputted, it says that each teacher can have max one day per week with lessons placed on 6-10. In other words it means each teacher will teach only once per week in the afternoon...

1 What does "Apply to" mean in the cardrelationships?
... However you will need to create a separete cardrelationship for each teacher...

1 How can I define that teacher can have max 3 consecutive periods(but he can have 2 doubles)
First you would need to define that each teacher can have max 4 consecutive lessons: Then you need to say that each teacher can have max 3 consecutive single lessons: Then you need to specify that teacher can have max 3 consecutive lessons where there are both single and doubles mixed: Notes:...

1 Double lesson cannot be over certain breaks
In most cases the best solution is to define breaks between lessons. By default your double lessons cannot span over these breaks. See here: However in some cases you need more precise specification...

1 Double lesson cannot be on Monday (specific days/periods/part of the day)
For this constraint use the menu "Main - Relations - Advanced". With relation type "Max periods per day" you can simply say, that there can be 0 periods (3.) on day selected in time-off map. There select Monday only (6...

1 Checking room capacity
...Then for each class(entire class) or for each group of students you can specify how many students are in it:...

1 Max one history lesson on 6th-7th position in each class (solution 1)
...how many times it is allowed to be on question marked positions...

1 Max one history lesson on 6th position in each class (solution 2)
You can add advanced cardrelationship Max periods per week and specify the 6th and 7th period in the time map: Do not forget to set "apply to selected subjects in selected classes". The software will then check max 1 period of History in each selected class...

1 Distribution of subject over the week
... See this: Option 2: You can also create customized distribution, where you can specify exactly on how many days the student can be...

1 I do not want my geography to be on Friday and then on Monday
The program automatically puts your lessons equaly over the week, not on consecutive days. However by default Friday and Monday are not consecutive days. So if you do not want to have the lesson on Friday and then on Monday you have to define an advanced cardrelationship...

1 I want subject in one class to be on the same positions as subject in another class
Question: I want to have Math lessons in 5.A on the same postions as English lessons in 5.B Answer: You have to define new advanced card relationship (menu Specification/Card relatioships/Advanced) for this purpose. See picture below...

1 What if 2 specific subjects must be taught simultaneously?
If these subjects are from different classes check this article: . If they are from the same class: If you have divided class and one part has English and another part have Spanish, the software will automatically put them together if they are from the same division...

1 I need subject Math to be on the same position in classes 5.A and 5.B
Please go to menu - Specification/Card relationships/Add. Use card relationship: "The selected subjects have to be at the same time in all selected classes." See picture: Notes: 1) For 5C+5D, you will need to specify another card relationship...

1 Spreading lessons on different periods each day
...How can I distribute e...

1 I want to have Math lessons in a class on the same period every day
You can specify that some subjects must be on the same period every day...

1 I need subject Geography to be last lesson on a day in classes 5.A, 5.B, 5.C...
You can specify this with card relationship: ...

1 Modifying the default card distribution per week for the subject
In "Subjects - Constraints" you can find a slider for modifying the default card distribution for the subject. Within this distribution program checks two core constraints - "max periods per day" and "min days per week"...

1 I want just one PE/Art/Drama lesson per day
My classes shall have no more then one PE or Art or Drama lesson. You can add this advanced cardrelationship: Select your subjects. and make sure you use "Apply to Classes"...

1 I have Geography two times per week. It shall not be on consecutive days.
Select Geography in the subject list and press button "Constraints". Then change the Default carddistribution over the week to "Ideal/No Consecutiive days": Then: -if you have this subject 2 times per week it not placed on two consecutive days...

1 How can I define lessons that can be outside teaching block(in the afternoon)?
If you have some subjects that can or has to be in the afternoon you can add this cardrelationship: Now the selected subjects can for example be on 8th period, while normal teaching ends at 5th period. Without this card relationship the software will never create 3 period gap for the students...

1 There can be two maths on one day, but not consecutivelly
If you have 6 lessons of math per 5 day week, then there will be two math lessons on one day...

1 There can be two math lessons on one day, but they need to be placed consecutivelly
If you have 6 math lessons per 5 day week, then two will be on one day...

1 Biology cannot be on the day after Chemistry
Please add the following cardrelationships: Note: -you can use the map bellow to specify that for example class cannot have biology in the morning when it had chemistry in the afternoon on the previous day. Just mark the corresponding times in each map...

1 Double lessons must be before single lessons
... How to input this?...

1 Biology has to be in the afternoon in certain classes and in the morning in other classes
If you define time-off for Biology, it then affect all Biology lessons in all classes...

1 5A has to have Biology right before or after biology in 5B (the two classes have to have biology lesson on consecutive periods)
... However the above rule will consider as a gap only a space between the two lessons on the same day...

1 We have teacher who teaches only 2 days per week and it doesn't matter which
You can use option Teachers - select the teacher - Constraints. Program will then choose the most suitable days within the given number: Note: If you specified days precisely, be careful not to specify other teachers similarly...

1 Windows (gaps) in teachers timetables
In many schools the teachers complain about the "windows" in their timetable. Because of these "gap=free periods", they have to stay in the school with no lesson and they can't leave because they have other lessons later...

1 Teacher is teaching 2 lessons per week in class 5A but both are in the afternoon.
You instruct the generator to balance the lessons so that if teacher is teaching only two or three lessons in one class they shall not be placed every time late in the day. You have two options: 1. or 2...

1 We need one free Math teacher for every period in week
Let's take a case, when there are 5 Math teachers in your school and you wish to ensure that there always be at least one of these teachers free on every period (e.g. for substitution purposes). You can achieve this with advanced card relationship nb...

1 How could be distributed the first/last lessons for all teachers in equality?
You can do this in menu Specification/Card relatioships/Advanced...

1 Our class teachers always have to teach the 1st lesson
Please, see this article first: If this class teacher teaches only one subject, you can simply lock their lesson on that position...

1 Our teachers cannot teach more than 6 lessons consecutively
You can specify a global value in menu Timetable - Parameters: If this value is set to 6 then your teachers cannot teach from the 1st to 7th period in a row, but they can teach 1st and 2nd, then pause and then from 4th to 8th...

1 How to specify a teacher can teach only one 7th lesson
... on quesion marked positions in teacher's details: You can specify how many lessons can be placed on question marked positions...

1 How to specify min and max lesson teacher shall have on one day?
You can do this in teacher's constraints: Notes: - you can specify to not to check these values on the Saturdays/Sundays. So the teacher shall have 2 lessons each day on the Monday-Friday, but they can have 0 or 1 on Saturday. - please make sure that you do not require unrealistic demands here...

1 We have 10 day timetable (two weeks), I want to spread teacher's lessons equally into these 2 weeks
dorobit obrazok z online If your teacher is teaching for example 23 lessons per week (46 in total) and you are using 10 day timetable (2x5days) it can happen that the software generates 30 lesson in one week and 16 in the other week...

1 How to ensure lunch break for teachers
If you need to make sure that every teacher has at least one period free during lunch time for lunch, you can input it this way: Example: Lunch between periods 3-5. This means there are 3 periods available. So we can input it making sure that during 3.-5. period teacher can have max 2 lessons...

1 Two teachers cannot teach at the same time
Usually you do not need to specify this kind of constraint, since most cases are solved by the fact that the teachers have to use the same room or they teach the same group of students...

1 Teacher cannot teach 4th in Grade 5 and 5th lessons in Grade 6
This constraint can be usefull if you have a situation that you have different bells in grade 5 and grade 6th...

1 Teacher must have some lessons in the morning
You can add cardrelationship that says, that each teacher has to have at least one lesson on periods 1,2,3: Notes: - you can of course change the time map to better reflect your definition of morning...

1 We need two free teachers on each period to make sure we have enough teachers for substitutions
Add this advanced cardrelationship: The number 28 specifies the maxiumum number of teachers that are teaching at one time. So if you have 30 teachers at your school and you want to make sure there are always 2 free, you put max 28 teachers on one period...

1 Teacher cannot teach both in the morning and in the afternoon
You can use Main/Cardrelationships/Advanced and add Advanced cardrelationships: Apply it to teachers - so that it is checked for each teacher indivdually and mark the the two timeoffs the corresponding periods...

1 Our teachers have substitution duty lessons, we need min 2 at each period
... Note: In some schools this solution is not applicable because it requires you to define how many times each teacher shall have substitution duty...

1 Teacher cannot teach in two different classes in one day
You can add cardrelationships that says, teacher cannot teach in 5A and 5B in the same day: If you have more classes you will need to add more cardrelationships, depending on what you really need...

1 Teacher can teach max 2 periods per day in one class
Add this advanced cardrelationship: Select Max periods per day and set the number. It is important to correctly select the apply to comobobox. In this case we have used "apply to selected teachers' classes"...

1 Two teachers are teaching together, but only 3 times per week out of 5 lessons (lessons with assistant)
You can input this exactly as is requested...

1 Teacher cannot teacher more than 3 consecutive periods in one class
Add this advanced cardrelationship: Please note the: Apply to selected teacher's classes. This will make sure the rule is applied to each teacher in each of his classes separatelly. If you use for example Apply globally, then there could not be 3 conscutive lessons in the whole school...

1 Teacher cannot have gap of length 2
You can add this cardrelationship Notes: - use this only when you have some timetable generated See also: ...

1 How to ensure that teacher starts teaching with 1st or 2nd period (he cannot start later than 2nd)
You can add this advanced cardrelationship: Notes: - you can select the teachers and select only the teachers that have enough lessons - as usual: add this constraint only when you can already generate the timetable without it - in some timetables this constraint might not work...

1 Teacher cannot teach both 6th and 7th period. He can teach only one of these two.
You can insert this cardrelationship: Select only those two periods in the timeoff - the constraint max 1 per day is applied only on those lessons that are marked as green...

1 Working with timetable - general information
... Cards are placed in the timetable according to how the program generates them or how they are placed manually...

1 Control panel
... You can click on the button in the middle to show the timetable for the selected teacher or class: If there are more cards, so not all of them fit on the Panel of Not-Placed Cards, yellow arrows will be displayed on the right...

1 Moving the cards manually
You can change the timetable by simple movements of cards. Of course, the program checks for collisions of classes, teachers and classrooms. Procedure for moving a card: 1. Click on the card with the mouse and “pick it”...

1 Removing placed cards from the timetable
"Removing" in this article means just un-placing cards from the timetable. Lessons represented by these cards will not be removed from the contracts. You can remove a placed cards from the timetable in this way: 1: One-by-one (single selection) a - Click on that card to select it...

1 Right-click on card or free positions
... Quick changes - show additional menu with quick actions to change selected lesson or the card only ...

1 Locked cards
... If there are at least two ways how to place some card, then it is better to explain the generator where the cards might go...

1 Working with classrooms
The generator automatically assigns the classrooms and also while manually moving the cards the classrooms are automatically assigned...

1 Custom views
... However Custom views allow you to effectively divide entire timetable into smaller and more easy readable parts...

1 Right-click on row headers
Once you right click on the row headers you will see the context menu: Here you can quickly: A - Test the selected item. See: B - Open dialogs for item's details, time-offs, constraints, lessons and in case of classes also divisions...

1 Undoing and restoring operations
... That will allow you to store a semi-finished version of the timetable, to which you can return in the future...

1 Classroom view
Classroom view is a special view because when you move cards in this view, then only the classrooms are changed. The positions of the cards are not changed...

1 Filter function
... A popup appears where you can select some advanced filters, like show only double lessons or show only lessons that have only one section: So if the school wants to create a timetable by hand from the scratch, they can filter only lessons with one section only and start with these...

1 Working with days in the main view
By default, the software shows all the days on the main screen, usually from Monday to Friday. If you for example want to see only one day, you can do this in the days combobox...

1 We have the same timetable each day in given term or week
... What you need to do is to show the days combobox see above and then pick Days merged: Combine this with the “show all terms separately” in the combobox for terms and you will get a view with one column for each Term and with this column all days are merged, so you have only the periods as subcolu...

1 Quick modification of the onscreen view
You can quickly change the current view of your timetable in this way: You can specify the texts and colors, which will be used on cards. For example by choosing classroom as color, you can see the timetable with colors defined by the classroom and you can also specify different text on cards...

1 How can I filter cards displayed in the list on uplaced cards
You can right click in the bottom part with unplaced cards. Then you can select the Filter option...

1 What happens when I change school type?
You can change the school type combo box. Standard – uses group based generator. If you have inputted students they must be assigned to the seminar groups(sections) before the generation and they remain in the assigned group during the generation...

1 What does the stripes on the cards mean?
...show stripe of varios color on card to indicate:...

1 Why to test the timetable?
Before you generate your timetable, it needs to pass the basic test. You can find it in main menu as "Test" or in menu "Timetable - Test". This first test tries to generate small parts of your timetable to detect the basic mistakes in your inputted data or constraints...

(basic test)

1 Test says there is some problem. What next?
...CHECK and FIX this problem - program will show you the part of the timetable that it has generated and give you the card that it can't generate ... You can return to this item later by invoking the test again (menu - Timetable - Test)...

1 Checking and Fixing example
... This example showed us how the test can help to find out a problem...

1 Testing multiple classes/teachers at once
You can test multiple classes/teachers/classrooms/subjects/students this way: First go to corresponding view (Whole/Teachers/Classrooms/Subjects/Students). Then select rows that you wish to test. You can do it by clicking on row headers...

1 Generate draft timetable
At early stages of timetable generation it is advised to try to generate draft. Draft is timetable without any constraints. This is very usefull, because it makes no sense to generate complete timetable with all the inputted constraints if there is some basic problem in the input...

1 How can I test just some lessons, for example all double lessons or all PE lessons
Sometimes it may be usefull to try to test if you can put some group of lessons into the timetable. For example put in all double lessons or all divided math lesson. This is possible: 1. click right mouse button in the bottom part where the unplaced cards are shown and select Filter...

1 Testing card relationships
You can test also individual card relationships: You can do this by right clicking in the upper left corner of the timetable, then choosing "Test - Card relationships" and choose one of the relationships...

1 Analyze the timetable by generation
... Lets now have a look at some examples to see where this feature can help and how to read the data...

1 Analyze the timetable by Extended tests
... You can even use button "Show me"...

1 Starting the generation
Once you use menu TimeTable - Generate new the following dialog will appear: If you have not yet tested the timetable, or you made a significant changes in the entered data, it is a good idea to test it every time before the generation. Just click the button Test the timetable...

1 What does the complexity of generation mean?
...how much time the computer shall spend checking your timetable...

1 Constraints relaxation
Constraints relaxation allows generator to partially violate some constraints in order to fully generate the timetable...

1 A good way to generate your timetable
... If you are not able to generate a schedule after adding some constraint it is likely that this constraint is unrealistic based on how your timetable data is currently setup...

1 What does the dialog displayed while the generation is in progress mean?
... It also shows how many cards the software was unable to put into the timetable...

1 Generation has finished and the program tells me it had to relax some constraints.
... If you click the "Show me...

1 Can I force the generator to place certain lesson on certain position?
You can place the lesson into the timetable before the generation and then lock them. The generator will not move the locked cards...

1 Multiprocessor generation (dual-core...)
Some of modern PC computers contain special kind of processor called DUAL-CORE processor (or multi-core). Processor is central part of computer that does most of the computation...

1 Testing was sucessfull, but the generation fails
... The Test tests just one item at time, however sometimes problems are not linked just to single class/teacher, but occur when trying to generate two or more classes/teachers, whole grades, or even half of all classes, etc...

1 What happens when I cancel the generation?
... It will stop after reasonable time (defined by the complexity of generation) but you can stop it at any time and the software will show the best solution so far...

1 Cloud generator
... The cloud generator is especially useful if you are not sure how to generate your timetable, what parameters to use or if you simply have a very complicated timetable...

1 Verification of timetable
The aSc TimeTables program allows you to verify the created timetable. You can run verification from the main menu via button Verification. Or you can use shortcut - press space bar. The program shows you the broken or relaxed constraints in your current timetable. The timetable is grayed...

1 Class XY contains a window
The software calculates when the class MUST have lessons and when it CAN have lessons. By default every student must have a lessons in the MUST section. So the software alerts if there is a group of students that doesn't have lesson in the MUST section. E.g...

1 Divided cards are placed on too many positions in class XY
...Program automatically counts for every division how many positions can be fully occupied with its lessons...

1 Verify just one class/teachers/subject
...show problems of just one class or teachers in the current timetable you can right click on its/his row headers and select "Verification"...

1 Advisor - Overbooked class/teacher/room
... This can be either a mistake in input, or misunderstanding of how the software interprets your input...

1 Advisor - No lessons for certain period
... For example this school has forbid all subjects to be on 4th period: This is however a problem in the default settings where a student cannot have a gap in his/her timetable...

1 Advisor - Different number of lessons for groups
... It shows how many lessons each group has: Please remember that the software can only put lessons for the groups from the same line onto the same period...

1 Advisor - Lessons of different length
The software allows you to input double and single lessons of the same subjects. However sometimes it may be preferable to input them all as single lessons. For example if you have 5 lesson per week you may have one double lesson (2+1+1+1) or two double lessons (2+2+1)...

1 Advisor - More lessons than days
If you have 5 days and define, that Math lessons shall be 6 times per week, the software will try to put at least 1 Math lesson on each day. So your lessons will always end up like 1+1+1+1+2. However for some schools this is not exactly what was needed, there can be two problems with this input...

1 Advisor - Teachers have many blocked days
... The only way how the timetable could be setup was to have these two at the same days...

1 Advisor - special classrooms are not defined
Typical example of this problem: You define that English lesson is divided into two groups...

1 Advisor - These teachers have to teach in too many classes at the same time
Typical example of this situation – Let’s say, that we have small school with 9 subjects, 3 classes and 8 teachers. Then we want to create some free lessons for teachers...

1 Blocked part of the day
... However if you block several half days to more teachers/subjects, it may be very hard to tell why the timetable doesn't generate...

1 How to print in color and define colors in printouts
In the Print preview click on the icon Colors. A dialog appears where you can edit all colors settings. In the first area you can specify colors for cards and they backgrounds...

1 How can I print days in columns and periods in rows?
By default the software prints individual schedules for teachers, classes or classrooms using days as rows and periods as columns. You can switch this as shown on this picture: Note: - this is the quickest way...

(Print preview, Global settings)

1 How can I print Lecturer or Professor instead of Teacher?
Simply click right mouse button on the text and type the desired text: ...

1 How can I change the color of class?
You can change the pre-defined color of the class in this way: This color then can be used for printed layouts, or for displaying on the main screen during your work...

1 Print teachers' contracts
You can export the contracts to MS Excel...

1 How to remove all custom texts? Some texts in the printouts are wrong, what can I do?
The software allows you to change the texts in the printed timetable. This helps in some special cases when you want different texts printed in the timetable then the original one. For example Grade5 instead of 5A/5B/5C. However sometimes you want to remove these custom texts...

1 How can I print timetable for individual students
In case, you have inputted list of students in your timetable, then you will be able to select the printing report "Timetable for each student". With it, you can print one timetable for each student. 1. 2...

1 How can I select what printout will be printed?
On the main toolbar select print preview: A print preview appears and you can select what shall be printed in the combo box: Once you select the report you can move between all pages via button Previous Page, Next Page . You can also use the remaining icons to modify this selected report...

1 I want to have periods running from top to bottom, not from left to right
There is one central setting that can swap the layout of timetables for ALL printouts. Go to global settings and choose that lessons shall go to top from bottom: All the printouts will be changed accordingly...

1 How to print lessongrid?
Go to Print Preview...

1 I want to change the header above printed timetable
You can go to Print Preview, then click icon General Settints...

(Print preview, Global settings)

1 How to print wallposters, for example 3x2 papers
Select that Wall poster from the list of available reports: Then you change the column widhts and heihts: ...

1 Customizing printouts
... Just press right mouse button on any part of the timetable you want to change: Every part has it's own customization dialog that specifies how that part is rendered in the printouts...

1 I want to print also teachers' names in timetable printout/ need bigger font size
You can customize what is printed on each card: 1. Go to Print - Print preview. 2. Use the right mouse button on the desired card: 3. Check what shall be printed: The same aproach can be used to specify texts also in individual timetables...

(font size, print,)

1 I want to print also classroom/teacher/subject for each lesson
... Classroom is printed in the bottom left, however if the lesson is in homeclassroom for that class, it is not printed...

1 Printing pictures of subjects
For nicer printouts you can specify the thematic picture for each subject and not just color. This picture then will be printed on class timetables. This feature is very useful for younger children so that they can understand the timetable without reading...

1 Can I load a custom printout settings from another timetable?
Please check this picture: Note that this only applies to timetable printout settings. Not the printout designs...

1 How can I display capacities and students counts on the cards?
The software now shows the count of students on cards. Also in lesson grid. It is possible to display also room capacity. So it is possible to see 30/31 or just 30...

1 How can I set the width of the lines?
First go to print preview. Then click on the icon Colors. A dialog appears where you can input line widhts: You can input two widths. One for main lines between days and one width for less important lines usually dividing the periods during each day...

1 I want to print summary timetable of teachers with teachers' colors
By default the summary timetable of teachers is printed using colors of classes. However you can go to Print preview and use the button Colors: Then you can select which color you want to use...

1 How can I define Extra columns?
For each printout you can define several additional columns or rows. Just click on Extra columns/rows and new window will be displayed. Click on firs row for columns or rows and choose one of available option. Set also Header text and width of column (or high of row)...

1 Printing multiple timetables on one page
... Here you can specify how many timetables shall be packed onto one sheet of paper...

1 How to register the software?
... However the registration name always shall include the full name and address of your school...

1 Modify the heights of rows or widths of columns
In each printout, you can drag the lines between the timetable, header and footer: In some reports, you can also drag the FIRST line that divides the first row or column. Why only in some reports? Because a report be set to fit to page width or page height...

1 How to print only certain classes or teachers?
... However, printout for each class will not be affected one page for each class will be printed...

1 Modifying the structure of the printouts
... However, there might be situations where you need bigger changes...

1 How to print report for Monday AND Tuesday only?
This can be done in these two steps. 1. At first you have to create combinations of days you wish to print. Go to Days dialog box via "School - Rename days". Then select more days with holding the "Shift" key (similar as in any other table) and confirm by "Combine"...

1 How to print reports for DayA/DayB? (available in version 2009)
If your school has DayA/DayB timetable, you can define these special days in the Day definition dialog, see above...

1 How can I print summary timetables for teachers/classes/classrooms?
Go to print preview and in the marked combobox, select your report. Notes: 1. You can modify what shall be printed in each card 2. You can change the height of rows by dragging the lines 3...

1 How to print room supervision in teacher's and classroom's timetable?
You can print the room supervision in the timetables for the teachers or classrooms. In the menu Print Preview -> Global Settings, you can select if you want to print the room supervisions in individual and/or in summary timetables (it includes also reports "wallpapers")...

1 Is it possible to print consecutive single lessons as one lesson?
... The timetable displayed in the software will show two single lessons...

1 Printing different bell times for school sections/days
pridaj tu kompletny obrazok - aj s ukazkou tlace, nech je jasne, ako sa k "print setup" dostanes... By default the software print the bell times bellow the period number...

1 Printing weekly timetables
By default the software prints the two weeks (or two terms) timetable on one sheet, with the row divided into weeks (terms)...

1 How can I print bell times in timetable header?
The default bell times can be printed by right clicking on the lesson number in print preview and allowing this option "Print time intervals": See also: ...

1 Print the color only in the left part of the cell
If you do not want to print the timetable in full color you can print the color of teacher only in the left part of each lesson: ...

1 Print date or remark bellow timetable
By default the software prints date of last change in the bottom left corner of the timetable...

(Print preview, Global settings)

1 Print different bell times for teachers
If your school has different bell times for different parts of the school, then the software tries to guess which bells shall be printed for each teacher. Eg if the teacher has all the lessons in one part of the school, then that bell is printed...

1 How to print timetables with school's logo
If you wish to print also school's logo on every printed timetable, you can add it in print preview - Design - Print logo - Browse and select the path to the image file with your school's logo...

1 Print-out designs
aSc Timetables allows to completely customize your printouts. aSc TimeTables comes with a collection of predefined designs. You can choose and use one of them...

1 How to apply a print design
Go to PrintPreview and display the class, teacher or classroom to which you want to change a design. Then press button Design (1.). Select your design (2.) and press button Apply design ... (3). Program will ask (4.) if you want to apply this design to selected class or to all classes...

1 Print legends below timetables
Below each timetable you can print legend that shows list of subjects, teachers or classrooms so that your students will understand the abbreviation in the timetable...

1 How to add class name, classteacher, homeclassroom to my print design
1. Add new design object to your design using right mouse click and selecting menu "Add object". 2. Add custom fields with this information to the design: 3...

1 I want to print different texts for each teacher. Do I have to create design for each teacher?
No. You just need to create one template and use custom fields. You can define your custom fields and then fill them for each teacher. In the design you will print a custom fields, so for each teacher his/her own texts will be printed...

1 What is room supervision and how to input it?
... How to input room supervision? At first, it is necessary to input areas, where the supervisions will take place...

1 Design object properties
Each object in the design can have text, borders, backround and pictures: Please note that the text allows you to define replacable parts. So instead of creating design for each class with hardcoded class's name, you can create one design with text the includes {Class:Name}...

1 How can I modify the print-out design?
Just press right mouse button in Print preview and select Edit design: You will immediatelly see the current design in Edit mode. Each object in the design is displayed in blue rectangle: You can: 1. Click to select an object and drag it to another location 2...

1 How can I change/remove the design?
If you do not like the selected design, you can simply press right mouse in printpreview mode and select Remove design...

1 I get error message: design file is missing on this computer
If you create a new design on one PC this design is not available on another PC. You can either copy the whole folder c:\timetables\designs\designname from one PC to another. Or you can remove the design from your timetable, so that all timetables are printed in standard layout...

1 Choosing teachers for room supervision.
... Numbers after teacher's name show how many supervisions has this teacher already assigned (minutes/count)...

1 Generate room supervision
You can use a specific "duties generator", which we developed directly in the software. This generator will try to optimize duty's timetable according to the criteria...

1 Is it possible to have two teachers supervising one room?
Yes, You can define the number of teachers needed for one duty. Just click on the supervision, from the meanu use Count and select the number. Maximum 5 teachers can be set for one supervision. Notes - please note, that you can specify this different counts for each duty...

1 Can I define min/max supervisions for the teachers?
Yes, in case you need, you can define the limits for supervision for certain teachers. It can be set in teacher's constraints dialog and you can limit the count and/or total minutes of supervision. If you do not want to limit teacher, just leave the fields blank...

1 How can I export duties timetable? (available only in the offline version for Windows)
You can export the generated supervisions into the XML file. This feature is available only in the offline version for Windows. Use the menu "File - Export - Export Room supervisions"...

1 Can I export the lessons, teachers, subjects to MS Excel?
You can export the data you have inputted to MS Excel. Choose menu File/Export/Export to MS Excel: The following dialog appears. You can select what you want to be exported: The most usefull is probably to export contracts. This export all the data into several sheets for each list...

1 Export to XML
... Please see on how to enhance XML file with new tables/columns...

1 Export limited to max 10 cards/lessons
IMPORTANT: This help is only valid for PC version. The TimeTables online version doesn't have limits. Save your timetable to online version and export: PC windows version: In some export functions (e.g. Export to XML), there is a limit of maximum 10 cards or 10 lessons...

1 Importing from Clipboard (MS Excel)
... These steps will describe how to transfer data from MS Excel but same method can be used with other programs too ... If the list is empty then you have not copied the data into cliboard so return to Excel and copy them as in step 2...

1 Synchronization with database
... Left list 1 shows data in database that is not in aSc Timetables, or that is in aSc Timetables, but is somehow different (e...

1 Import from XML
This topic is for IT personnel of your school. It requires basic software programming skills. Please see this topic for simpler way of importing data into aSc Timetables: aSc Timetables can import data from "aSc Timetables XML" file. You need to write your data into this format...

1 ID numbers in import/export
... IDPREFIX - How to specify where aSc Timetables should store your id numbers? When creating XML you wish to import to aSc Timetables, you must fill in global option "idprefix"...

1 Import sections from clipboard(Excel)
1. Open your excel file and select the data, then press CTRL-C: You can use this excel file for tests, or you can add your data into this excel file. If you keep the column names, the software can recognize the columns automatically. 2. Open timetables and create a new documnent...

1 Import students' course(seminar) selections from clipboard(Excel) - Method 1
1. Open your excel file and select the data, press CTRL-C: You can use this excel file for tests, or you can add your data into this excel file. If you keep the column names, the software can recognize the columns automatically. 2...

1 Import students' course(seminar) selections from clipboard(Excel) - Method 2
Instead of manually inputting it is possible to import the students and their seminar choices from program MS Excel. Just select your excel data and copy them to the clipboard. Data for import must be exactly in this format...

1 How to merge two timetable files into one
In ASC Timetables you can merge two (or more) timetables into one file with the Import function. This is handy if you and your colleagues have prepared different timetable files for different part of your school - e.g...

1 Swap two days in timetable
Let's suppose that you have finished the timetable and suddenly, due to some reasons, you just need to swap two days. It means that you want to move all cards from one day to another and vice versa. You can do this in menu "Options - Advanced". If you wish to swap e.g...

1 Delete all unplaced cards
If you have nearly finished your timetable, but there are still some cards that are not placed in timetable and you want to remove all those cards from timetable completely, you can do it this way: Go to menu Options -> Advanced...

1 I need to move all lessons within a day
... However lessons above 3 will move: 3->4, 4->5 and so on...

(move lessons, advanced functions)

1 How can I swap all the lessons from one period to another
Once you generate your timetable and wish to just swap lessons between periods, it is not necessary to do it manually "one-by-one" card. It is convenient to use advanced function "!swapdpd". If, e.g...

1 Temporary subjects - quickly add extra activities for teachers into their schedule
... This solution is good, if you do not know how many special lessons - without class - each teacher will have...

1 Local backup
Everytime you save your file and once every 30 mins you are working on some file, it's copy is saved to the local backup storage on your PC...

1 What’s new in version 2016
... But the advisor will also display suggestions to avoid potential problems and to show you how to input certain situations ... it is possible to view payments and more...

1 What's new in version 2007
Dear aSc TimeTables users First of all we would like to thank you for your ongoing support. The software was already purchased by schools in 98 countries and we are very glad that we still receive many responses, suggestions, praises and comments from all of you...

1 What’s new in version 2009
... However this new version greatly extends these possibilities...

1 What's new in version 2008
... Printouts It is now possible to print the lesson grid:See: Also you can print legends below the timetables:These legends can show the list of subjects, teachers or classrooms used in the timetable...

1 What's new in version 2010
... Of course you can still input the exact numbers on how many days/how many times per day, by using the card-relationships, however the new default values are much easier to input and shall cover the most situations...

1 What's new in version 2013
... You can exactly specify how many times per week kids can be in the best room...

1 What's new in version 2012
... This allows the software to put them in the positions that will create gaps for students, you can of course limit how long gaps do you tolerate...

1 What's new in version 2014
... How can I setup EduPage 7...

1 What's new in version 2015
Dear users Thank you for your continuing interest and great feedback we receive from you. It is important for us to make the software better...

1 What’s new in version 2017
... (when for example some students have 5 lessons per week and other students have just 4 lesson per week of the same subject) Look and feel You can now define special screen font color for each object to better distinguish between cards on the screen, select special format for how to print teache...

1 What’s new in version 2018
... The software will show you what was changed since the last save and you can revert back to any previous state of your work...

1 What’s new in version 2020
Dear aSc TimeTables users Here is a list of new features in version 2020 1. The generator got 10-20% faster depending on the actual timetable. Especially the longer generations the bigger benefit. 2. Multicore computers...

1 What are seminar/course lessons for?
Seminars/Courses are a special lessons dependent on individual student choices. Expression "seminar" or "course" in this case means the group of students specified according their individual requests for the the same subject...

1 How can I input individual students
Input the individual students into timetable only for timetabling purposes and if your timetable is based on students choices. Otherwise it is not necessary and you can use the basic class - division - group approach...

1 How can I input students picks
Before adding students requests you need to: - add all students into your timetable - - create subjects/courses which students can choose from - Once the above is done you can add all students requests for chosen subjects...

1 How to create sections of courses for subjects
... In the dialog you will see how many students have requested for this subject so you can create an appropriate number of sections for this subject...

1 How to input seminar lessons
Before creating seminar lessons, please see following article to fully understand the main difference between the common lesson (for entire class or group) and the seminar lesson: Note If you have already added the students and their requests...

1 Working with Seminar lessons in your timetable.
Working with the seminar cards in your timetables is very similar to the regular cards but there are few differences: The first difference is in the way of displaying the cards. Seminar cards are shown as a horizontal stripes within the row of class...

1 How can I assign students to groups manually
... In both cases, you might want just to assign the students into groups, without generation, so that you can see the cards, perhaps play around with them to see how they stack together...

1 Function "Rearranging students in seminar groups
This function is activated when you try to place some seminar card to position where already some seminar cards are placed and the only reason why it is not possible to place card to this position is that some students belonging to this seminar have education at this time...

1 I cannot see seminar lessons in class's timetable
This situation happens when there is no student from this class assigned for given seminar. In such case a card "without class" is created and can be placed only into teacher's timetable...

1 Max students for certain seminar lesson
It is possible to input max number of students that can be assigned to given seminar (section)...

1 How to generate timetable with students
... However during the generation it uses whatever info it has...

1 The student’s timetable view
You can select student, at the bottom you will see his pending cards. You can just drag his subjects from bottom or move his current assignments in his row...

1 Pending students view
... These students are show in rows, their picks that were not realized, are show bellow: This view is good for final touchups...

1 Student can have max 3 gaps per day
1. First you need to allow discontinout layout so that the software can create the gaps. By default the software will not create any gap. 2...

1 Printing individual student's timetables
You can print the timetable for each student, go to print preview and select report "TimeTable for each Student": Now the software will print only those seminars(course) that this students has picked...

1 Student choices - Importance
For each student's request you can specify the "importance" of this request. During the generation the software then makes sure that student receives the more important subjects while the lower important subjects might even be dropped...

1 Student's can select/request courses at our school
... For detailed info on how this work...

Design of webpage - Webpage

1 Select the type of webpage
After creating EduPage, you can choose the type of your webpage. Select the page type. There are 3 options: You can use EduPage for publishing timetables and substitutions only. You can use EduPage as your main school webpage, because EduPage is a full featured content management system...

1 How to change the web page design
Log in as your school's EduPage administrator and select "Start" in the left top corner and then select Webpage wizard. Click "Design" You have many different variant options. You can work on them simultaniously. One of the variants is active, visible to the public...

1 What is responsive web page design?
Responsive web page design is the answer to widespread displaying web pages in mobile devices. The width of the display plays an important role in this case, as it is inconvenient for the user to scroll horizontally. Responsive web page design adjusts to the specific width of the display...

1 How to create a subpage?
Log in as an administrator and choose the subpage you want to create: select to edit in the wizard: in the 1st step, you can customize the back of the module, whether you want it to have one subpage or split it into several subpages: 2...

1 How to put a link to the uploaded file into the text?
In the text editor you can press Insert item. Then a list of files uploaded by you is shown: Simply click any file and a link is added into the text onto the cursor position. Or choose entry Upload file to upload a new file. System will prompt you to save changes before uploading new file...

1 EduPage web pages for mobile phones
The number of users viewing EduPage web pages in smartphones is rising. The new designs display correctly on a large screen as well as on a smaller smartphone screens. Some of the former EduPage designs did not respect this...

1 How to restore a previous version of the web page (responsive design)
... while adjusting your web page you need to return to the previous version, follow these instructions: Press the "Design history/restore previous version" button...

1 How to send a website layout draft to colleagues for comments?
If you re-design a school website (for example, you're switching from a former out-of-date design to a new one), you can gradually prepare the new design, i.e. the changes made are not published immediately...

1 Slider section
The Slider section ensures a modern and attractive look for your website. Use the Webpage wizard to manage the Slider section. You can access it via the Start button/Popular actions. The new slide of the presentation consists of an image, a text title and optionally a link...

Attendance of students - Headmaster, deputy, administrator

1 How to grant right for attendance to the teacher?
Administrator can grant rights to modules on the EduPage: Any teacher can enter attendance of students in Class register, class teacher can excuse or not excuse absence: Teacher - Attendance There is no need to assign any right to attendance to the teacher...

1 Are electronic excuse notes safe, can't they be falsified?
Electronic excuse notes are safe because: 1. Only a parent from a parental account may enter electronic excuse notes. There is no such function in the student's account. 2. The parent has an overview of all excuse notes...

1 Administrator - Setting the notifications preferences for reminding parents to enter the absence note
If a student has an unexcused absence and the school allows electronic absence notes, the system will automatically notify parents to enter electronic absence notes. The notification will be send every three days in the morning...

1 Overview of students' attendance for a specific day
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Attendance of teachers - Headmaster, deputy, administrator

1 Teachers attendance
... Can record attendance of non-teaching staff...

1 Basic information on teachers' attendance
1. Location of the module in EduPage The Teachers' attendance module can be found in the left menu, section "Education" → "Teacher attendance". 2. What do the individual colors in the teacher attendance indicate? Scroll to the bottom part...

1 How to start using Teachers' attendance module
Basic information on teachers' attendance: 1. 2. Teachers' attendance is ready to use...

1 Workload types to be used at our school
If some of the workload types are superfluous for your school, turn them off. The attendance overview will be easier to read. Go to "Settings", select the "Workload" tab and turn off the superfluous items. Items can be renamed. A new workload item can be added...

1 How to customize the section appearance - show or hide sections?
When the items displayed have been set , the predefined items display can be set for individual employees. Use the "Show" function to adjust the items displayed in individual sections. For example: non-teaching staff will only have the "Attendance" section displayed...

1 How to set the process of recording absences into substitutions
... If your school records reasons for leaving...

1 How to count different types of substitutions into teachers' attendance
Predefined substitution types can be found in the teachers' attendance automatically. They are displayed in yellow and they already have na abbreviation...

1 How to record a one-time adjustment in attendance, e.g. leave of absence
The easiest way to adjust data in the attendance is to click on the relevant field and type in the desired number. . If the admin adjusts data in several users e.g...

1 User rights to Teachers' attendance
... For example, you can lock the attendance records for the previous month...

Attendance of students - Teacher

1 Attendance of students
...record the students' attendance by clicking the students icon in the Class register...

1 Teacher - attendance students. Report.
A teacher can generate students' attendance report in his class for a specific period (e.g. one month). Select the period (dates), columns and press "Refresh". It is possible to generate attendance report for only one or several students, or other reports...

1 How to excuse students' absences due to school representation automatically
A student, or a group of students represent school in a competition and do not attend that day's classes. Select "Mass evaluation" while creating a New event. A "representation" type of absence note will be created for the participating students...

1 How to change the type of absence from excused to unexcused and vice versa?
The teacher can enter an excused/unexcused lesson to the student: If they are mistaken in the type of absence, they can change it at any time. Select Education in the left menu and then Attendance...

1 How to create an absence note for a specific subject
If a student is regularly excused from the lessons in a specific subject or the subject is optional for the student, or the student is exempt from the subject an absence note can be input only for the specific subject...

1 Student's attendance - Registy of beeps in class register
If a school uses aSc access control system together with the electronic class register, it is possible to register students' attendance with one click...

1 How can the class teacher input absence notes?
We recommend using electronic absence notes to minimize the time the class teacher spends on students' attendance...

Payments for food - Payments

1 Payment for canteen
...payments to your boarders can be viewed under 'Fees and payments' ... The students' cancelled orders will immediately show up on the amount of the student's fees to pay...

1 How to set the initial credit / import from the different software
... You can access the payments module through the left menu under 'Communication' or as one of the tiles on the homepage after logging in...

1 The meaning of credit in the School canteen module
...Credit in the Canteen module represents the sum of the payments paid by parents ... which the school has already recorded ... How can the canteen manager view the credit of the boarders? ...

Payment plans - Payments

1 Payment plan with siblings discount for 'after school club'
... To simplify the administration of collecting these monthly fees follow these instructions on how to create a school club payment plan and its modification (siblings discount) ... Setting the account and visibility of payment plans and payments to payers (parents) If you have selected the '+ Add' option, input the account number in the payments settings...

How to organize teaching materials in EduPage - Preparations

1 Plans and preparations in EduPage - OVERVIEW
... When you select the curriculum from the plan, you can see how many preparations you have in the plan and you can use them right away...

1 How to access preparations in class register?
... you can see how many preparations you have to selected topic...

1 Quick way to your plan and preparations via timetable
If you click on an lesson in your timetable, the system will set you up in the course plan and preparations...

1 Saving material to preparations while creating it
When creating a new material (test, presentation) or a new card, set the right topic in the plan and press the red + button. The test, presentation or card will automatically ataach to the selected topic. (Not valid for HW and project assignation...

1 Why add preparations to the topics of the plan?
If you select a topic from a plan, you can see all the preparations that you have available for the selected topic. Organizing your materials according to the topics of your plan brings you the following benefits: Benefits for teachers: 1. You can access your materials easily during the lesson...

1 How to assign materials from 'My library' section to specific course plan?
You can find all materials, once created in EduPage, in the 'My library' section. There are all materials, from previous years included. In time there are plenty of them, it becomes not easy to orientate oneself in it. Therefore we recommend assign them to specific topics of the plan...

1 Categorizing teaching materials from My library to a plan by drag-and-drop
Materials in My library that have not been categorized to any plan can be displayed by clicking on the "Not assigned to any plan" button. These materials can be categorized to the relevant plan additionally by drag-and-drop. Start by activating the drag-and-drop function...

1 How to add materials from My library to the topics of the teaching plan
In the My Library you can find the materials you used in the past - pictures, files, tests, etc. It is good to move them to the topics of your plan. Select the materials you want to connect to the plan. At the top there are possibilities what you can do with the materials. Select the label icon...

1 Synchronizing preparations in similar plans
If you use similar plans in several different courses (e.g. when teaching parallel courses with copied plans), a "Synchronize with similar plans" button appears when creating preparations in one of them. The synchronization is based on identical title of topic in different teaching plans...

1 Where do I find my E-learning preparations after the EduPage update?
The praparations that were attached to topics in a plan can be found in their original location. If you copy your former plan, you can find your preparations there. Other preparations that were not attached to any topic in a plan can be found in the My library / Not assigned to any plan tab...

1 How to add material to preparations or to preparations of another course
There are more ways of assigning existing material to the preparation of another course - for example, if you are teaching parallel classes and you want to have the material in preparation for each of the classes. 1...

1 How to add teaching materials from My library to the teaching standards
In the "My Library" section you can find materials you have used in the past - pictures, files, tests, etc. You can sort them by topic of your plan or by the standards they cover. Tick the materials you want to attach to the standard...

1 Marking materials as "Basic curriculum" or "Advanced curriculum"
Sometimes it may be useful to have materials divided into those that cover the basic curriculum and those that are beyond the basic curriculum - for example, exercises for clever pupils. In EduPage there are labels on each card or material...

1 How to use the materials I have created, in the following school year
All teaching materials that you have created in EduPage in the past, can be used in the following school years too. If you have created your materials in the "My library" section, you might have a substantial number of the created cards by now. My library becomes disorganized...

1 How to copy preparations from another teaching plan
Tick the materials located either in your Plans or in My library to copy them. Tick the cards you want to copy. Press the arrows icon in the upper right corner. You will be asked by the system to provide an account to copy the materials to...

1 How to copy the content of My library to a different EduPage
In EduPage it is possible to copy a teaching plan from a different EduPage together with the teaching materials. The advantage being it is not necessary to assign the materials to topics of the plan as they have been already assigned...

1 How can one plan be shared and used by multiple teachers? (Team teaching)
Team teaching is when multiple teachers teach a group of students the same course throughout the school year. In this case, you create a teaching plan as you would normally. In "Plan settings", you can select multiple teachers to teach this course...

1 How to transfer uncategorized materials in your plan to a specific topic
Select your course and click on Plans and Preparations. The cards that have been categorized to individual topics will display when you click on a specific topic in the plan...

1 How to remove cards from a topic in the plan or from uncategorized cards
If a card has been assigned to a plan by mistake, it can be either removed or deleted. To remove categorization of the card to the plan, tick the card and select the tag icon in the top menu. Click on the "x Remove" option...

Assign materials to students - Preparations

1 How to assign a material (e.g. presentation) to students?
A presentation about Africa shoud be assigned to the 6.D Geography course. Press the "Edit assignations" icon in the presentation card. Select "create a new assignation" in the "Assign" tab. Select the course to assign the material to and press Done...

1 How to assign created questions to students?
Tick the questions that are to be assigned to students. Click "Add selected to material". The questions can be assigned to students either as a test, or as homework. The homework has a default name that can be changed...

1 Assign tab - description
The "Assign" tab contains some information and options for the assignment of the test: Green: inclusion of material in study topics...

1 How to add existing test to another class
Select the test, you want to reuse. Click on "Edit assignation" icon. Selet "Create new assignation". Choose the course, you want to assign the test, and fill in other information. Press Done...

1 How do the students access materials prepared for them by the teachers?
Students have several options to access the materials about a specific study topic prepared for them by the teacher: 1. Via the "Curriculum" 2. Via notification about taught lesson 3. when the teacher assigns material to the student 1...

1 How to properly assign materials to students for online learning?
In case a school must be temporarily closed (e.g. because of a virus infection), EduPage offers the teachers various options for online teaching. In EduPage, a teacher can prepare a presentation for the students, or assign a study material to them...

1 How to assign material only to some students
... The number tells you how many students the material has been allocated to...

1 Assigning homework/test over again to selected students
... The system offers 3 options: Return the material to some students so that they can do it again (mark as for rework) ... However, the results from this assignment will display in a different overview than the initial assignment...

1 How to assign students a test again / return it for rework?
You have assigned a test to students, set a time limit for students to take the test, and limited the number of attempts to 1. However, not all students answered at the given time...

1 How to prepare a test for future use, without immediate assignment to students
To prepare a test for future use, select the "Do not create an assignment yet" option in the "Assign" tab and save your changes...

1 Messaging about assigned material (HW, test, project, etc.)
The teacher can assign the students HW, test or project. If the student has questions about the assignment, they can start a conversation with the teacher by clicking on the "Reply" button in the assignment. The conversation is linked with that specific assignment...

1 How can the students verify what they have learned at school?
If a teacher prepares several revision questions to each topic of their plan, the students can test themselves at any time - at school, at home, on the bus, from what they have learned at the lesson. On smartphone, tablet, or computer...

How to create new material? - Preparations

1 Creating new materials
... How to create a new material: ...

1 What is a card?
Card is the basic unit of preparations in EduPage...

1 How to attach file to my preparations
Select the topic from your plan. Click on "Attach file" icon and choose the file. Or you can simply drag and drop a file to this first card in preparations. Type the title, and/or some text. Save it...

1 How to adjust image size in a question or presentation card
When inserting an image into the card, you can adjust its size. Click the image. Image settings display on the right hand side. Image size can be adjusted by inserting another image next to the first one...

1 How to enter picture into question
You can insert the image in the tab below or to the right of the existing content. To insert an image below the content, click the yellow "+" at the bottom of the tab. Choose what you want to insert in the question...

1 How do I add audio file to my preparations
Select the topic, to which you want to add an audio file. Then simply drag the file, move it over the start card. When this card turns green, drop it. You can test the audio file by pressing the play card button...

1 How to send to students a sound file that can be downloaded
When inserting a sound file into the card, the predefined play mode is indicated: In the Sound settings you can select a play mode "multiple times with time seek". In this mode it is possible to download the sound file. Click on the three dots to download the file...

1 What is the size limit and what types of files can be uploaded to EduPage?
The size limit of a file uploaded to EduPage by a teacher or by a student is 50 MB. Best practice is not to send large files (even files smaller than50 MB) via e-mail nor via EduPage. If you need to share large files with your students, we recommend you use cloud services, e.g...

1 How to make material invisible for students?
Select "Visibility icon" on the material you want to make invisible for students...

1 How to insert internet link to a card?
Click on the topic in your teaching plan. Press the red + sign in the bottom right corner. Select "text card" from the slide options. Click inside the text field. Editing options display in a top menu. Select the link icon. Insert the link and press the green tick icon to save changes...

1 How to add a video to your preparations
... How to upload a video to Youtube 2...

1 How to create card with table in preparations
Press red + in the bottom right corner and select "Text Card". Click on the card, a yellow + appears at the bottom. Select a table. You can set the number of rows and columns of the table either in the right pane (Table options) or through the + buttons. Choose the border style...

1 How to make a copy of a card (your, school or global card)
Select the card you want to copy. Click on the "Duplicate cards" icon in the top menu. Select the option to make a copy without grouping. Press Done. A copy of the card has been created and can be further edited...

1 How to enter mathematical symbols in questions?
To enter mathematical expressions, LaTeX syntax is used. Instructions for use of LaTeX can be found on the Internet, for example here: KaTeX supported symbols Mathematical expressions to be displayed in a line between the text must be enclosed in two dollars, for instance: $x^3 = 9$...

1 How to copy question?
Select the question, so that yellow frame around it is highlighted. Press CTLR+C (copy). Press CTRL+V (paste) on the place, you want to copy the question. Press Done...

1 How to input chemical compounds
LaTeX is an instrument for writing mathematical expressions. The "mchem" part of this instrument is for writing chemical formulas. Chemical formulas to be displayed in a line of text, have to be enclosed in dollar signs and curly brackets \ce, tj. $ \ce{.....

1 How to insert more than one image
More images can be inserted into the card via the black + sign. It appears when hovering your mouse over the first image. When inserting images this way, the system will make sure the images are aligned properly...

1 How to restore data lost during creating a new card
... Return to cards editing as soon as it is possible...

1 Importing test questions from a text editor (e.g. Word)
If you have created your test questions in a text editor, importing them to EduPage is easy. We recommend numbering individual questions for the system to recognize them (this can not be a numbered list). The answers in ABCD questions have to be marked a) b) c) d) etc...

Settings of webpage - Webpage

1 How to create EduPage from aScTimetables?
In the aSc TimeTables application you just need to press the “TimeTables – Online/EduPage” button. The software will ask for the name of your EduPage and password: UserName/name of your webpage First you can choose the name of your web page. Choose some easy name that will represnt your school...

1 How to change the school logo and school name
Log in as the administrator and start to edit the website: You can use some of the prepared logos, but you will probably want to upload your own using the “upload file” at the bottom of the dialog: After making changes to settings do not forget to press Apply...

1 Add your page to Google search
If you have your page ready, please log into it and go control panel and click link "Promote your web page": You will find several links where you can register your site so that Google can find it...

1 Admin - how to add another language on the Edupage school website
It is possible to display EduPage school website in different languages. To add another language option to your school website, please select "Control center" in the left menu of your main page...

1 How to change the language of your EduPage
EduPage can be displayed in different languages. To change the language, select "Web page" in the left menu of the main page. Select the desired language...

1 How to change the contact information?
Click Start/Basic school info/Edit contact info. If you need more fields, use button Add field You can create more complex contact pages. For example we will create contact page with map and also with form where the user can fill in some questions to the school...

1 How to set user rights to edit modules
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1 Own domain
...com will work and show the same webpage ... MX records for emails), everything still works - we will copy the records for you to our name-servers...

1 Problems communicating with EduPage
... Turn off browser plugins Google chrome allows you to install plugins that change the way how your browser behaves...

Input/import of data - Basic school data

1 Student card
Basic info Compulsory information is the Name and Surname. All other information can be input later. Information marked with an icon: - indicates data to be reported into government register. They are different for different countries. - indicates data valid in the current school year...

1 Card of student - Health
Fields in the Health tab are different for different countries. Please, contact us if you want to input these fields...

1 Card of student - Study
The date of beginning and of the end of study can be input in the student card in the Study tab: ...

1 How to record student's switching class
... The administrator can record the change via "Basic school data": Tick the relevant student in the "Students" tab and click the "Edit" button...

1 How can I upload photos of students and teachers to Edupage
You can upload photos of students and teachers in "Agenda online" . Login to Edupage as Administrator. Choose Agenda online - Tools - Photos - Students/Teachers. A new window pops out with empty spaces for photos. Prepare photos on the disc of your computer...

1 How to input new headmaster/principal
If the headmaster changed during the current school year, the change can be input to Agenda Online by the administrator. Go to "Code lists - Schools" and select the relevant school...

1 How to import students' photos to EduPage?
Photos of students/teachers can be imported from one file at a time into EduPage. It is necessary to prepare photos in .jpg format, all photos must be zipped into one file and this file cannot be encrypted...

1 Teacher terminated employment contract
... Just record the information that the employment relationship at your school has ended in the database...

1 How to create a drop-down list of dormitories?
If you are an administrator of a boarding school, you can create a drop-down list of dormitories and allocate the students accordingly. You can find the dormitories in Agenda Online under Code lists. Click on New and fill in the necessary information...

1 Displaying date format in Buddhist Era
There are two date formats showing date of birth in EduPage - Christian/Common Era and Buddhist Era. When data editing is needed a school administrator changes CE date format and the BE date is calculated automatically. Click on the row you want to change the date and click the 'edit' button...

1 How to display only the current students of the school
Agenda Online displays a list of all the students in the particular classes. To display only the current students of the school, without the students with completed or discontinued studies: select "Internal students" in the "Main" menu...

1 Let's get started: How to input your school data into EduPage?
In your web browser, log in to EduPage as an administrator. Click on the Wizard tile on the start screen or in the left menu: Now click on School data: For the start, add the following: 1. Teachers Enter all the employees who work at your school and fill in their details...

1 How to access data from previous school years?
The data from previous years is archived in EduPage...

1 A fast way to switch between school years
Generally, the school year switch can be found in the "Settings - school year" menu: There is also a faster way to switch between school years...

Incoming payments handling - Payments

1 How to record received payments in EduPage - manual input, import from excel, import from bank statement
...record ... payments into the system when the parents / students / boarders have paid their fees ... For detailed instructions on how to input the payment manually or import from excel, please see ...

1 Return payments - How to enter the account for refund
... Automatically by the system - in case that school imports the payments from bank statement The system saves the bank account information from which was the last payment received and assigned...

Import to new school year - Payments

1 Import to new school year - canteen and payments
... arrears payments and other data about payers in the Payments module ... - record all incoming payments in the new school year...

Start with the payment module - Payments

1 Payments module
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Group of questions - Tests

1 What is a group of questions and what is it good for?
If you are preparing a test for students, you usually create at least two test variants (group A, group B) to avoid describing students. Test variants usually contain the same types of questions, but they are slightly modified, with different numbers etc...

1 A simple way to create a different test for each student and eliminate cheating in online tests
Teachers can easily create different test variants for students in EduPage. 1. Create several modifications to a question and group them together. 2. Tick several of these groups and click on the "Add to material" button. Select the "Test" option...

1 How to group similar questions or modifications of a question
Tick the questions to be grouped and click the group icon in the top menu. Press the "Save" button. Done. The question group is indicated in the bottom part of the card. The number of cards in the group is stated as well. Click on the icon to display the questions in the group...

1 How to create a modification to a question (copy of a question in the same group)
Tick the original question to create a similar one (modification). Click on the "copy" icon in the top menu. Select the "Create a copy in the same group" option. Modify the question, e.g. in this case the numbers in the arithmetic problem will be changed...

1 What do I gain by creating groups of similar questions?
Creating groups of similar questions has advantages for the teacher: 1. Your materials will be better organized when similar questions in your preparations are grouped rather than listed individually. 2. A gorup of questions can be added to a test...

1 Results of tests with question groups
A teacher assigned a test with question groups. In tests without question groups the correct answers in a column are always the same - Results/Answers. In a test with question groups it is different. As a question could have different modifications, the correct answers in a column will vary too...

1 How to group questions directly in the test
Connecting questions into groups is useful for creating test versions. The system will generate "a little different" test for each student. It will randomly select questions from the group of questions...

1 How to publish question groups to the school library
Click on the groups icon. Start with assigning standards to the cards. Tick the "Select all" box. Assign the standard. The teachers will be able to access the question group based on the standard...

Backup of materials - Preparations

1 How to backup your preparations, e.g. going to teach at different school?
You do not have to be worried about losing the preparations you have created in EduPage, in case of leaving the school you are teaching at. Your teaching materials are automatically backed up in your Personal account...

1 What is a school account, a personal account and how to pair them?
... Then follow this guide: How to create a Personal EduPage account If you have already created a personal account (for example as a parent), choose the second option and pair it to the school account you are currently logged into...

1 Where do I find my teaching materials from former school/place of work?
As a teacher at School1 you have got your teaching preparations saved in your EduPage account. Enter a backup email in your personal account before moving to another school/employer. After creating new account at School2, login to it and enter the same backup email...

1 How to copy my teaching plan from a different EduPage account (another active or disabled account)
Choose the course which you want to copy a plan to and click on the 'Create the plan' button. Click on the 'Copy from another plan' button. A new window opens with all your EduPage accounts linked via the backup email in your Personal account. The list of Plans appears...

1 How to link two personal accounts to back up the teaching materials
In case your login name is the email address provided by your school and the email is valid until the end of your employment only, use a backup email. This way you can link your personal accounts whether you teach at more than one school at a time or you are moving to another place of work...

1 How to check whether my teaching materials are backed up properly
Login to your account. Click on your name in the top right corner and select 'My profile'. In the 'Backups' section you see all your linked accounts via the backup mail in your Personal account...

1 How to check whether my teaching materials are backed up properly
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