by Chris Knights-Branch | Mar 22, 2022 | Curriculum, New timetabler, Principles of timetabling, Scheduling
What subject codes should I use? Any thoughts or comments are welcome – just email mist@mistservices.co.uk As a company we work with many hundreds of schools over many different MIS systems and each MIS System might work slightly differently. This isn’t a problem so...
by Chris Knights-Branch | Dec 13, 2021 | Curriculum, New timetabler, Principles of timetabling, Scheduling
Do I need timetable training? Any thoughts or comments are welcome – just email mist@mistservices.co.uk Everyone is different, but in our opinion the answer is ‘yes’ – although we are bound to say that! If you are new to timetabling and new to software then we...
by Chris Knights-Branch | Dec 8, 2021 | Curriculum, New timetabler, Principles of timetabling, Scheduling
What makes a good timetable? Any thoughts or comments are welcome – just email mist@mistservices.co.uk I love this question! Ask 10 timetablers, get 10 different answers. Ask all the subject leaders in a school and again get different answers! Put it simply there is...
by admin | Nov 22, 2021 | Curriculum, New timetabler, Principles of timetabling, Scheduling
Combinations in timetabling Any thoughts or comments are welcome – just email mist@mistservices.co.uk Forget all that geeky maths – I’ve been timetabling for the last 20 years and don’t need some maths formula to tell me it’s difficult! In the previous articles I’ve...
by Chris Knights-Branch | Nov 15, 2021 | Curriculum, New timetabler, Principles of timetabling, Scheduling
Re-writing a timetable mid-year, is it a good idea? Any thoughts or comments are welcome – just email mist@mistservices.co.uk We are going to take a slight sidestep from previous articles as we have had quite a few enquiries from new schools about re-writing their...
