Add Room
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Screen Description
The administrative page Add Room allows the administrator to add a new room in any existing building (a building can be added from the Buildings screen).
Details
- Building
- Select a building from the list of buildings (a new building can be added to the list from the Buildings screen)
- Room Number
- Enter room number of this new room
- Department
- Select the controlling department from the drop down list
- External ID
- External ID of the room (optional)
- Type
- Type of the room (Classroom, Additional Instructional Room, ...)
- Capacity
- Seating capacity of the room (the maximum number of students who can have a class there at the same time)
- Coordinates
- Location coordinates of the room on the campus map
- The coordinates are used to calculate distances between rooms (to decide whether the students and instructors can reach that room during the break from their previous location)
- Distance between two rooms is computed as Euclidean distance between coordinates × 10 meters (e.g., distance between coordinates [0,0] and [3,4] is 50 meters)
- Coordinates cannot be negative
- A room with no coordinates is assumed to be too far from any other room (for instructor and student back-to-back constraints)
- If you do not have coordinate system established, entering the same coordinates (e.g., [0,0]) for all rooms will ensure that there will be no "too far" instructor and student back-to-back constraint violations in the problem.
- Ignore Too Far Distances
- Displayed only for non-university locations
- By default unchecked, which means that if a class at this location is back to back with a class on campus, there will be a conflict for students and those back to back classes cannot be taught by the same instructor
- When checked, there is no time conflict between back to back classes (one at this location, the other one on campus) and the classes can be taught by the same instructor
- Ignore Room Checks
- By default unchecked, meaning that there can be only one class in this room at a time
- When checked, more than one class is allowed at that location at the same time
Operations
- Save (ALT+S)
- Save the new room and go back to the Rooms screen
- Back (ALT+B)
- Go back to the Rooms screen without saving any changes
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