Sapphire's scheduling tools are designed to efficiently and effectively work through the scheduling process. Scheduling decisions are based on available staff, room and student information. Sapphire provides the opportunity to easily capture staff and room information. Student request information is obtained either by direct entry of student course requests or by leveraging the Community Portal. The Master Schedule Builder is a very effective tool for producing one or more new master schedules. Alternatively, the system offers the option to use the previous year’s master schedule and applying the usual improvement touch-ups. The Master Schedule Builder has built-in monitoring of overloaded teacher and room assignments during the process of building a master schedule. Further, it provides a real-time, interactive decision-making process for selecting the best possible assignment of periods and terms, thereby minimizing conflicts in the students' schedules.
Master Schedule Builder Key Benefits:
- Course-block definitions
- Analyze student course requests
- Classroom size, type, and usage
- Course meeting patterns
- Teacher assignments
- Period lockouts for teachers, courses, and rooms
- Locked sections
- Course priorities
- Create multiple masters for comparison
- Avoid having certain courses in same period
- Overlay courses with the same period/teacher
Scheduling tools in the Sapphire Student Information System (SIS) provide administrators the resources they need to handle every scheduling task from developing relatively easy elementary school schedules to producing complex high school schedules based on student course requests. The SIS Scheduling tools allow you to create blocks and also use teams if these concepts are used in one or more buildings.
Scheduling functions assist in both the development of a master schedule for a new year, and in maintaining student and teacher schedules during the year. The Master Schedule Builder is a powerfully flexible tool that helps administrators make decisions during the development of a master schedule. Administrators can easily build different versions of a master schedule to answer “what if” questions about scheduling alternatives.
The tools provide a simplified process of creating appropriate course sections based on course requests, section seat counts and other requirements. Course request can be entered directly through the SIS or can be collected through the courses request process in the Community Portal. A process checklist helps administrators schedule and track the various tasks associated with developing a schedule for a new year.
Maintaining student schedules during the school year is easy using the Student Schedule and Walk-In-Scheduler tools.
Scheduling Key Benefits:
- Adaptable to scheduling in High Schools, Middle Schools and Elementary Schools
- Supports all scheduling scenarios including blocks, teams, full year, semester, quarter, or any duration courses
- Allows administrators to develop multiple potential schedules to answer “what if” questions
- Shows seat counts and fill percentages with various potential schedules
- Course requests may be entered on a student-by-student basis, by course, or collected from the Community Portal
- Supports curricular alternate, priority alternate and direct substitute courses requests
- Creates course sections based on number of course requests, maximum and optimum seat counts and other requirements
- Automatically creates student schedules based on student course requests
- Uses priority-based alternate and direct substitute courses when building student schedules
- Easily assign multiple students into course sections
- Can automatically assign study halls
- Walk-in scheduler makes creating a new student’s schedule mid-year a breeze
- Easily do course adds, drops, and transfers on student schedules during the school year
- Changes to student schedules are immediately reflected in the Teacher GradeBook
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