Teacher / Instructor

In Omniscol, teacher refers to any person who delivers the teaching of a lesson. The term covers:

• permanent teachers (tenured, faculty),
• adjuncts (occasional external instructors),
• visiting professors (guest academics, guest lecturers),
• trainers (continuing education, workshops),
• experts (occasional contributors hired for their expertise).

Depending on your institution's culture, you may say "teacher", "instructor", "lecturer" or "trainer" — Omniscol adapts to your vocabulary through its labels (see the settings), but under the hood they are all represented by the same entity.

Creation

Teachers are created at school level in Teachers. You fill in:

• first name, last name, login, password,
• e-mail (used for the invitation and for the "forgotten password" process),
• optionally an external identifier (staff number, SIS ID),
• the subjects taught (makes assigning them to lessons easier later),
• the service hours (planned number of weekly hours, used as the default in new timetables).

Assignment to a timetable

Once created at school level, teachers must be assigned to a timetable from Assign teachers. This step distinguishes the "available personnel" (at school level) from the "personnel engaged on this schedule" (at timetable level).

Availability

A teacher can enter their availability (unavailable, undesirable or preferred time ranges). For weekly timetables, it requires administrative validation; for calendar timetables, it is consolidated in real time. In secondary education, it is also called wishes.

Adjuncts (external instructors)

For adjuncts, see the dedicated entry: External teacher / adjunct.

Virtual teacher

The Virtual button creates a virtual teacher — a temporary record for a position to be filled, which appears with a ghost next to its name. Once the actual person is recruited, you turn the record into a real teacher with the button on its row. Handy for preparing the new school year before all the recruitments are finalized.