Timetable Planning Without Clashes
Where timetables go wrong
A timetable built in a spreadsheet looks fine until two classes claim the same room or a teacher is scheduled in two places. Clashes are usually discovered by the people affected, not the planner.
Build with constraints, not after them
A timetable builder should reject a period that clashes for the same teacher, room, or class.
- Map subjects to classes and assign teachers.
- Define rooms and buildings as typed records.
- Detect overlaps before publishing.
- Publish to teacher, student, and parent views from the same source.
Publish once, read everywhere
When the timetable is a single source, a change reaches everyone. Teacher views, student views, and parent views all show the current day without a second data entry step.
Keep substitutions accountable
Substitutions happen. Recording who covered which period keeps the staff load report honest and gives the timetable a history rather than a snapshot.
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