Holidays

Holidays are school closure periods attached to a school year: school breaks, bridge days and public holidays. Each has a name, a start date and an end date.

When a school year is created, Omniscol can offer to import the common holidays of the configured country, when data exists for the chosen range. The list can then be completed and adjusted manually.

Effect on the timetable

The effect of a holiday period depends on the type of timetable:

• Recurring timetable (weekly or cyclic): at publication, the holidays cancel the lessons of the days concerned — recurring lessons do not take place on those days and the statistics take this into account.
• Calendar timetable: a lesson can be positioned on a holiday day, but this creates a conflict; automatic generation then reserves the right to reposition that lesson if it is not locked.

Holidays describe a general closure of the school. To neutralize a period on a narrower scope:

• a class absence removes one class over a given period;
• in a calendar timetable, date windows restrict the activity period of one specific course.

Where to configure them

Holidays are managed per school year, in the school years, one by one or in a table.