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Let's look more closely at these two structures from a technical point of view.
Timetable Managed Externally equals
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True
In this situation Posi Ed is relinquishing control off the process of creating individual classes in (sessions) in the calendar.
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In many cases this will mean that there are no cohort schedule records visible for such cohorts, however daily uses can still perform a publish timetable process which will create these cohort schedule records. In this case, Posi Ed does not use these cohort schedule records to generate the timetable, however it does use them to display the students timetable component on the student account page. This is its only function in this situation.
Timetable Managed Externally equals
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False
In this mode the timetable of each cohort is defined through cohort session records. These can be either set up manually or created through your timetabling software. For example, by using Edval's publish timetable function.
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If either of these joint Session types are selected then the operator will need to also provide a reference to the master class. In these situations if two or more classes are taking part in either type of joint program, then any class can be allocated as the master class, and this class will assume certain priorities in the calendar generation and other processes.Recording 1696.wav