Multi-room (one lesson in several rooms)

Omniscol lets you assign several rooms to the same lesson. This feature is available on all timetable types: weekly, cyclic and calendar.

Typical use cases

• Exams split across lecture halls — a 200-candidate exam spread over three lecture halls (capacity 70 + 60 + 80) with a single instructor in charge. Capacity is computed as the sum of the assigned rooms.
• Broadcast lecture — a lecture in a main lecture hall, streamed by video to a satellite room (for example on another site, or even for an entirely remote cohort).
• Split practicals without splitting the group — when a 30-student practical fits in no single computer room, but can be supervised simultaneously in two adjacent rooms (15 + 15) by the same teacher.

Total capacity = sum of the rooms

When you assign several rooms to a lesson, Omniscol adds up their capacities to check that the group fits. No false over-capacity alert is raised as long as the sum is sufficient.

Tip. If you see over-capacity alerts disappear after adding a second room, that is exactly the expected behavior: the sum now covers the headcount.

Limitation to keep in mind

If the sum of the capacities remains below the group size, Omniscol still displays a conflict — it is up to the administrator to decide how to resolve it (by adding a room, reducing the group, or accepting the conflict if it is deliberate, for example when you know that not all enrolled students will attend).