In this post, we will explain the term School Time Table Management Software/ System, the types, features, benefits or advantages to schools and student.
WHAT IS A TIME TABLE MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE?
Time table is a schedule of events that organizes school activities throughout the day, week, term or year. For each activity, a timetable generally specifies a starting and an ending time. Typically, the shortest duration on the timetable is called a period. A time table management software can notify students and parents if there is a change in time tables such as a change in the class time or a change in the teacher taking the lecture. It helps students to prepare in advance for a modification in their daily schedule.
An efficient school timetable software, such as School Software Pro helps in seamless management of classes in schools and colleges to create quickly multiple timetables which save an adequate amount of administrative time and effort. Through this School Administration Software, it will be easy to manage Proxy period of teachers, which save the time and efforts of administrative staff. Creating timetable, assigning proxy period, and managing faculty timetable.
TYPES OF TIMETABLES IN SCHOOLS
The different types of timetables in a school can be managed effectively with dedicated timetable management software e.g., School Software Pro, it comes with inbuilt timetable management software. This software can be used to generate and manage timetables of any levels of complexity. Many types of timetables are used across schools and universities all around the world, but there are only six major types of timetables from which all other sub-types are derived and they can all be found in School software Pro mobile app. They are:
- Master timetable: The master timetable will have comprehensive information about teacher-wise and class-wise time-slot allocation in a single view on the mobile app. It’s the principal’s or chief administrator that has access to view on it. it is a consolidated timetable helpful for the principal to supervise the teachers. This timetable helps the principal or HOD (Head of the Department) to swap classes or re-allocate teachers according to unforeseen events like the leave of a teacher or unavailability of a classroom.
- Free Period Timetable: This timetable contains the vacant period info of all teachers. It only gives access to the principal’s or admin chief on the SS Pro mobile app so that the efficient allocation of teachers can be done by looking at the free periods available all across the institution.
- Games/Sports Timetable: As the name indicates this timetable contains the different games and sports played using the indoor and outdoor playfields in the school. This timetable is managed by the principal as well as the physical education head of the school. This timetable helps to coordinate the grounds and indoor playrooms effectively.
- Homework Timetable: This is not followed in all the schools. Even though regular homework is assigned to students, a fixed timetable is not given to parents and students to follow at home. With the homework timetable on SS Pro Mobile App, it is possible to balance the time spent on different subjects at home. This will help parents to allocate the time for different homework assignments.
- Teacher-wise timetable: This timetable contains the time-lost and class-room allocation of a single teacher. On School Software Pro Mobile App, the teacher-wise timetable can be created for each individual teacher, it has an overview of all the class period list for that respective date. Some teachers will be handling multiple subjects and the subject association also will be displayed in the teacher-wise timetable. This feature is basically for administrative staff so that they can take record of the daily activities carried out by teachers in their respective classes.
- Class-wise Timetable: This timetable contains all the subject teacher allocations has done for the working days in the week for a particular class. Each class in the school will have an individual class-wise timetable and subject associations set in place. This timetable will also contain time-slot allocations for non-teaching periods like free time, games, extra-curricular activities, this time-table are to enhances the administrative experience of the school.
Features & Advantages of Time Table Management System
Timetable is such an important aspect of any educational institution; it should be crafted meticulously. And so, it takes a lot of time and effort to create a timetable for everyone, depending on their requirements.
This is where the timetable management feature of school Software Pro becomes helpful to HODs, Principals and Admins. We have listed how the timetable management feature helps run the school more efficiently. These are some of the Features & advantages of Time Table Management System.
- Easy creation of timetable and can export in Excel format.
- You can create time-slots for the timetable as per your institute requirement.
- You can create different time-slots for different standards as per the need.
- Create recess slots as per the need.
- Edit and change time-table as when it needs.
- Students can view their respective class timetable in their smartphone
- Teachers can view their whole week timetable in their mobile application
- Time to time re-arrangement can be done.
- Avoid conflicts in timings for teachers.
- Facility to select school working days.
- Automatic creation of timetable for teachers on the creation of students’ timetables.
- User-friendly
- Saves Time and Effort
- Reduces Error
A cleverly made timetable makes the students’ and teachers’ jobs much easier and stress-free. It also helps students to stay focused on one particular subject at a particular time. Therefore, a timetable is the most important thing for the students as well as teachers. And so, it needs to be crafted with care. The timetable management feature in the school Software Pro, allows you to create optimal timetables without wasting much time and energy. Apart from that, it reduces human error and is an eco-friendlier alternative to manually created physical timetables.