How to manage Bands in Curriculum Plan

This guide looks at the Bands within Curriculum Plan

A Band is used to help make a timetable more manageable. This could be because Students are added to Bands and so each has the same number of lessons for their Subjects; or it may be to help manage Staff where the required number of Classes in a Year Group exceeds the available number of Staff for that Subject.

For example, PE has 3 teachers but there are 6 Classes in the Year Group.  All cannot be taught at the same time so splitting into 2 or more Bands allows Staffing flexibility. All Classes must have a teacher and in practice it means some Students will have PE on a different day/Period.

This guide covers:

• Band functionality
• Band Three Dot Menu

The minimum permissions required to create a Timetable are found in the Timetable Module from Config > Setup > Roles and Permissions > Choose Role>Edit>Timetable > Timetable App.

Read further guidance on wTimetable here and see What’s New for latest updates on wTimetable.

Go to Modules>wTimetable to open Projects then click on your Project , click on the Timetable to see the Timetable panel with the tabs below. Click on Curriculum Plan.

Band Functionality

One Band (A) per Year Group is added by default.

Add a new Band by clicking on +Band in the top left and choose where to place the band. E.g., before A, between A and B, between B and C, after C etc.

Use the arrows to go to the next Band.

The pencil and bin icons in the middle of the Band allow users to Rename or Delete Bands.

Band Three Dot Menu

When clicking on the three dots in the Band users can:

• Copy Band Structure – into available bands in the selected year group (keeping existing blocks).
• Remove all the blocks from Year Group – will show a confirmation popup to confirm all blocks will be removed from all the bands in the year group.
• Remove all the blocks from band – will show a confirmation popup to confirm all blocks will be removed from the chosen band.
• Restore Review version – resets the selected Year Group to the latest Block Planning page version. Only available if Generate Blocks has been used in the Block Planning page.