On 10/12/05, Philipp Schröder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In any case, I vote for not having the calendar display timetable > periods as "time blocks" at all! Instead, I vote for having a regular > sucession of time units, as in a regular plain calendar, without the > "school timetable blocks". These are very confusing. I will explain this > in more detail in a follow up.
Actually, whether or not the school periods are used in the calendar is user configurable. If you click on "Change Preferences" you'll see a "Show periods" checkbox. > > Keeping track of that per object (resource, section, etc.) would be a > > lot more involved (and likely bug-prone) for relatively little benefit > > in my opinion. > > Yes, as I say, I think the whole benefit of having those "timetable > blocks" in the calendar isn't really a benefit, on the contrary. In the most common case, when a school has one main timetable that is used throughout, there is a clear benefit. A teacher can click on a period to create an event for a class without manually entering the start and end times for the period. This may be less of an issue in European schools, which I gather tend to organize their schedules around the natural beginning and ending of hours or at least half or quarter hours. Many US schools have very random seeming bounaries for periods, like "10:04 - 10:57" which means that entering those times manually would be a big pain and error prone. --Tom _______________________________________________ Schooltool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schooltool.org/mailman/listinfo/schooltool
