So, I have been reading documentation and flooding the forum with a lot of questions which made me understand better gibbon. Still I don’t have it completely figured out and might need a bit guidance since I need to have it all set and ready to go by march (That’s right, coming March).
So here’s my scenario: We have 3 main levels: A, B, C. Each of those has sublevels, for instance A1-1, A1-2, A2, B3, C3. Some of this have two different timetables (If I didn’t get the concept wrong). I know this may sound a bit vague or wide, but I bet you guys with more experience than me or, the admins will understand my questions.
So, I would take the following steps (and I would like to create a roadmap for others in similar scenarios than me, from this post and the answers)
- Create at less the current school year and both two terms we use.
- In my special case, define saturday as common day, since we do have courses on Sat. That's done in School Admin / Manage days of Week. We should also define the times of opening, and close.
- Set special days (holidays, right?)
- We only do one language courses, so departments don't apply, but otherwise, set departments for each language.
- Since we don't have a defined room for each course, spaces won't apply for us, but otherwise, set the spaces
- At this point, I don't understand the concept of rollgroups. What's this?
- Now, we create users and from People / Staff we set their roles, like Teachers, support, admins.
- Now we need to do the timetabling setup and here's where I seem to not be quite clear.
- We first define the timetables, I understand here we define one timetable for each course and time. So for instance, let's say that for A1-1 I have two different... how do you call it? hours?: Tue and Thu 16:30; Mon and Wed 21:00. I shoud ten create a timetable or A1-1 on Mon and Wed, and one more for A1-1 Tue and Thu. Is that right?
- Then I go to Courses and Classes Management and create the different Courses. So, here is where I should create the different courses, right? Like A1-1, A1-2, A2, B1... I should also be creating separate courses for intensive courses, if I have any.
- Next comes "Classes". I can manage hem from within each Course editing. But I don't get this concept either. What are Classes? Maybe in this scenario I don't need this?
- The next step should be, if I am not wrong, Manage Columns, here I first add a column and then, I can edit it. Here's my next doubt: So, here I should add different "times" for each different time schema ? For instance, if each day has a different schema because different courses of different levels are given, I should create one column (schema) for day? Or is this more like, I should use this feature for defining each course (A1-1, B2, A2, C3, A1 Intensive...) times/hours?