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• 4 Periods with 3 Lunches
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4 Periods with 3 Lunches

Periods

This sample layout has the following characteristics:

• Courses are 83 minutes
• Lunches is 30 minutes
• There are 3 lunches
• The middle of a students schedule will contain one of the 3 sets of lunches.
• Because the lunch is 1 slot; the lunch courses in the curriculum should have the field "Meets this many periods per day" set to 1.
• Courses are set to take 4 slots; thus the field "Meets this many periods per day" should be set to 4.
• One of the lunches takes place in the middle of one of the courses  (The student would go to the course for 40 minutes; then break for lunch for 30 minutes; and then return to the same course for another 40 minutes)

Morning

All students could potentially be scheduled into the first 4 periods.  Periods 0 is homeroom.

Lunch A (Students will have either Lunch A, B or C)

Lunch B

Students who have lunch B; will take the first half of their course for 40 minutes; step out to lunch for 30 minutes;

and then go back to that course for 40 minutes.

Lunch C

Afternoon

How to set this up in Genesis

This screen shot shows how to add these periods into Genesis.
Notice in this screen shot; how period 3B is set to link to 3B2. This makes the scheduler treat 3B and 3B2 together as unit of 4 slots. Sections that are scheduled into period 3B/3B2 will have 2 subsections; one for 3B and one for 3B2.

 In this screen shot; you can see how 3B2 also needs to point back to 3B

9 Periods with 3 Lunches

Periods

This sample layout has the following characteristics:

• Courses are 44 minutes
• Lunch is 30 minutes
• There are 3 lunches
• The middle of a students schedule will contain one of the 3 sets of lunches.
• Because the lunch is 1 slot; the lunch courses in the curriculum should have the field "Meets this many periods per day" set to 1.
• Courses are set to take 2 slots; thus the field "Meets this many periods per day" should be set to 2.

The scheduler will place courses into periods that are x slots long.  

With the courses being 2 slots long; the courses will never be placed into a lunch slot; and because lunch courses are 1 slot long; Lunch courses will never be placed in periods for courses.

This configuration would work for districts where lunch is less time than the course. 

The length of the course should not matter; as long as it is longer than lunch.

Morning

All students could potentially be scheduled into the first 4 periods.  Periods 0 is homeroom.

Lunch 5 (Students will have either Lunch 5, 6 or 7)

The 7th period in this block; is the same 7th period in Lunch 6.  (You will only need to enter this period once into Genesis)

Lunch 6

The 5th period in this block; is the same 5th period in Lunch 7.  (You will only need to enter this period once into Genesis)

Lunch 7

Notice how period 6 is 6B here.  Periods 5 and 7 in both blocks of lunches have the same meeting time. 

Afternoon

Other

These periods could represent students that are being sent out of the school for a VoTech program.   You would have a VoTech course in your curriculum that would be set for 8 periods in length (8 slots). 

What it would look like in Genesis