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If on the other hand this box is unchecked then Posi Ed PosiEd assumes the responsibility of creating and managing the timetable using the associated timetable structure and timetable term. This process can either be done through an external platform such as Edval which will provide Posi Ed PosiEd with a list of cohort schedules via its published timetable capability or cohort scheduled records can be created manually which is commonly the case for simple timetable structures e.g. primary schools.
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Timetable Managed Externally equals True
In this situation Posi Ed PosiEd is relinquishing control off the process of creating individual classes in (sessions) in the calendar.
External timetabling platforms such as EdVal Daily uilise the LISS API to perform a publish daily data and publish daily delta timetable data to create and update session entries for each specific cohort that they manage. This means that the Posi Ed PosiEd generate calendar process is not utilised.
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 PosiEd 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.
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This field allows you to specify this particular cohort schedule is for a joint class. There are two types of joint classes supported by Posi EdPosiEd.
Vertical Classess
A vertical class means that two or more cohorts have been aligned such that students can interact between either of the cohorts. For example a year 11 and 12 arts class might be aligned such that advanced Year 11 students might take part in the year 12 class and less advanced Year 12 students might remain with the year 11 class.
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