What's new on Bromcom

A new toggle Subjects in Blocks (default off) has been added to the Automatic Pattern > Generation - Settings popup which will keep chosen Subjects in different blocks to each other, to prevent staffing issues later in the process.

When the toggle is set to on, the popup expands to reveal the Subject Relationship table. Clicking Add New takes the user to Add Subject Relationship popup which requires two subjects to be linked, where Subject 1 must not be in the same block as Subject 2.

Step 2 Group Settings per Subject works as before.

Note:

• Number of Blocks should be set to greater than 1.
• Multiple Subject Relationships can be added. 
• Where a Subject has multiple classes the Subject can be selected for Subject 1 and Subject 2, so that they are automatically added to different blocks.

Users will see the Subjects chosen have been added to different blocks.

Modules > Options > Timetable Patterns > View Patterns > View Details > Pupil Review

For both Automatic and Manual pattern generation, enhancements have been made to improve the balancing of blocks:

• The distribution to classes will be balanced by key attributes: Gender, SEN, PP, and EAL so that no classes are overloaded with a particular type of student.

These key attributes mentioned above have been added to the Pupil Review popup, which can be exported using the Export button to export by Subject and Block, or by right clicking in the table to export the Pupil Review grid.