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Discover all the news included in the latest version of GHC

1. NEW CONDITIONS

Optional establishment of new conditions to make your timetable, either strict and weighted.

Nuevas condiciones
he weekly distribution of the teachers' complementary activities allows the establishment of a minimum daily duration.
Nuevas condiciones
A flexible weekly distribution can be configured for each subject, with a daily maximum and minimum, which can be increased up to seven school hours.
Nuevas condiciones
Try to have at least -n- free intervals between the first and last hours of each teacher's timetable, both during the same day and between leaving and entering the next day, differentiating between Friday and Monday.
Nuevas condiciones
Maximum permanence, both weekly and daily, of the teachers, with the possibility of establishing strict and preferential values independently.
Nuevas condiciones
It is possible to configure the maximum and minimum daily occupation of each teacher, both academic and taking into account other types of class units.
Nuevas condiciones
If a group of students has a wider frame than the one needed for their class units you can force the free positions in your frame to necessarily coincide with those marked as non-preferential in their template.
Nuevas condiciones
If there are remote groups of students, it is allowed to strictly forbid that teachers who share the timetable with one or another group have to make a double journey during the same day.

2. PLANNER

Configuring the timetable and using the software is even easier by employing new options.

Subgroups
When a selection is made in the list of class units through an element, its assignments are reported and it is allowed to change it for another one.
Subgroups
New user profiles for using subgroups of students, enabling exchange with other external applications that use subgroups, or individual students, allowing optimal timetables to be created for students in schools of music.
Subgroups
From the list of class units you can modify the assignment of all selected items.
New main window
Configuration validation reports more quickly and efficiently about what may be wrong with the configuration to find a timetable.
Several weeks
The timetable analyser finds minimum sets of class units that do not fit, which would allow to determine those circumstances that interfere with each other preventing solutions.
Planificador de horario
The debugger allows the engine to be launched without one or more of the strict conditions set in the configuration, in order to determine which ones might prevent complete results.
Planificador de horario
Looking for partial solutions will help you to debug impossible conditions.
Planificador de horario
The templates of the groups of students, teachers, classrooms, etc. show the pre-set positions of their class units.
Planificador de horario
It allows to configure different weekly timetables. This option can be useful, for example, to organize four-monthly timetables, or to plan an academic year of up to six weeks' duration with different contents during each week.
Planificador de horario
It is possible to establish a number of students to the groups, the class units, and the capacity of the classrooms, verifying that the assignments are correct.

3. ENGINE

The GHC engine increases its performance by obtaining and optimizing results.

Motor de horario
The engine improves its efficiency to find and optimize the solution to more complicated schedules, with contiguous blocks or consecutive sessions.
Motor de horario
The conditions for keeping a maximum and minimum number of daily class units in the teachers' timetable are observed more precisely.
Motor de horario
Improved placement of on-call hours during teaching hours and break supervisions for teachers.
Motor de horario
It improves the management of the gaps in the timetable of the groups of students to generate better timetables, moving the free intervals to the non-preferential positions of your teachers, or to the extremes of the timetable.

4. EDITOR

GHC makes it easier to modify or complete the timetables offered by the engine, more display options, reports, etc.

Editor de horarios
From the timetable editor it is possible to modify each individual class unit or each element of a chain of simultaneous class units with great flexibility even if there is more than one weekly timetable.
Editor de horarios
When performing drag-and-drop operations on the result, the possible target positions of the class units being moved are indicated with different colors.
Editor de horarios
Printed lists of a department's teachers.
Editor de horarios
Signature sheet for presence control. It generates forms for each day of the week or each date to collect the signatures of the teachers by classrooms or groups of students.
Editor de horarios
Better choice of classroom in the automatic assignment when adding or moving class units over the timetable, informing about the classrooms that are occupied.
Editor de horarios
A more complete and precise diagnosis is made about possible infringements in the conditions that were previously configured in the Planner by assigning or moving class units over a timetable in the editor.
Editor de horarios
PDF presentation of the complete timetable of groups, teachers or classrooms in sheet format.
Editor de horarios
The start and end times can be presented in the PDF format: in a column on the left side of the table, as a grid, or within each cell.

5. DATA EXCHANGE WITH OTHER APPLICATIONS.

These processes are subject to a ongoing maintenance.

Intercambio con otras aplicaciones
Exporting the timetable from the editor allows you to check the keys being used in the timetable against those currently provided in a file downloaded from the corresponding external application. In this way, it is possible to validate that the keys used exist and are correctly assigned.
Intercambio con otras aplicaciones
You can copy and paste lists of data automatically from any other application into the GHC planner using the Windows clipboard.
Intercambio con otras aplicaciones
You can import from both the Planner and the Editor to complete data or exchange keys from an external application.
Intercambio con otras aplicaciones
Import and export through other open formats.

6. GHC APP

The online platform is integrated with the rest of GHC's processes. It facilitates collaborative work to generate the timetable and carry out a complete day-to-day management.

Plataforma de archivos
You can use GHC APP WEB from any web browser. The native applications of GHC APP MOBILE are available in both Android and iOS. With them, the management team, teachers and students will be connected through a system that allows you to define the permissions for each type of user.
Plataforma de archivos
With the timetable viewer you can share the timetables of your school. If your school has termly or quarterly timetables, different timetables will be published between different dates.
Plataforma de archivos
Through the management of absences and substitutions, the teacher will request or communicate an absence to the head of studies, allowing a quick and simple management organizing and automatically notifying substitutions.
Plataforma de archivos
Capture of preferences is used before the start of the school year to collect information needed to make the timetable, such as subject and group assignments or other teacher choices. The process is automated around the head of department, which speeds up the collection of data from the head of studies for timetabling.
Plataforma de archivos
Merging outcome files. From the file platform you will be able to merge files obtained separately. This will allow you to generate a single timetable with all the information to publish it in GHC APP or export it to other applications.
Plataforma de archivos
Access to a remote repository. From the GHC file platform you can share your timetables over the Internet, facilitating joint work and access from multiple devices. It will also serve as a backup copy of your timetables in case of possible damage or loss of your files.
Plataforma de archivos
The cloud engine runs as a service over the Internet. It is different from the classic engine, which runs locally on your own computer. The cloud engine is offered together with your subscription as an alternative to the classic engine.

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