Scheduling

The heart of SOLSTAR Student Scheduling System is its ability to generate a Master Schedule. By combining the known quantities of Course offerings, Teacher abilities, Student requests and Class room availability, we are able to quickly and repeatable generate Master Schedules that can handle up to 1500 courses, 500 teachers and 6000 students.

The Scheduling System then prepares the student schedules by matching course requests for each student to the master schedule of class offerings. Options can be defined so the system will attempt thousands of combinations for each student in order to generate the optimum schedule for that student. The scheduling algorithm is the most efficient and accurate available.

There are many other features available in SOLSTAR Student Scheduling System. Some of the features are listed below:
  • Using Information about your school, SOLSTAR builds a comprehensive Master Schedule of all your course offerings.
  • Student schedules are generated by comparing their requests to SOLSTAR Master Schedule.
  • Schedules can be adjusted or students can be completely scheduled on-line at any time after the normal scheduling has been completed. you can also add new students any time throughout the year.
  • Reports evaluate the scheduling results: showing student schedule conflicts and rejects with reasons. The reports display Teacher and Room use.
  • The system is designed for the administrator to select from a number of options in many areas to make the software suit the needs of the school. The many options available within SOLSTAR allow it to be flexible enough to handle most situations within your school system.
  • Many different scheduling techniques can be practiced with SOLSTAR such as 4 X 4 and Block Scheduling along with Blind Teaming to mention a few.
  • Students are allowed to make specific requests for classes, rooms and/or teachers. Students can be scheduled to those specific requests if the scheduling options are so defined.
  • classes may be restricted in a number of areas such as student ability, grade, and sex.
  • Classes may be balanced by sex, ethnic group or total seat count.
  • Classes may be link-related so students will be scheduled to all or none of those requested.
  • The scheduling system supports alternate, required elective and optional requests.
  • Keeps track of and prints teacher and room schedules just as you would a students Mainframe and PC version available.

Study Halls

Once the students have been scheduled to classes, study hall classes can be generated. The study hall classes can be set to meet all week. Study hall sectioning of students will assign the students to the proper study hall only on the days that the student does not have class assignments

The Student Scheduling System is user friendly. All of the screen and report terminology was developed by system users, and functions are consistently used to make selections and to move from screen to screen. These and other features have substantially reduced training time for all of SOLSTAR users.

We are confident that after reviewing the demonstration system you will be convinced that SOLSTAR will solve the needs of your school system. All of the associates at M & J Data will be happy to answer any questions that you may have regarding the Student Scheduling System or SOLSTAR in general.