Hi, Tom Hoffman wrote: > 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.
I didn't realise that. It would be great to be able to set a (site-wide) sane default, depending on the school's needs (one simple timetable vs. irregular, overlapping timetables)! > 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. Yes, I think so. Many US schools have very random seeming bounaries for > periods, like "10:04 - 10:57" Wow. And I thought it was the Swiss who had the reputation for being anal about punctuality! ;-) which means that entering those times > manually would be a big pain and error prone. Yes, it makes sense. P. -- :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::. Philipp Schroeder DIN15 / Information Architecture & Interaction Design www.din15.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Schooltool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schooltool.org/mailman/listinfo/schooltool
