Room Viewer

The room viewer is another key subwindow in the program. It allows the user to initially place courses in rooms and times and moving of classes between and within rooms by a quick click and drag operation. When dragging into a room viewer the drop position will be highlighted in gray. So a drop at that point will schedule the course in the gray highlighted area. If you are over two or more possible drop sites one of them will be highlighted, when dropped a popup menu will appear with all the possible options, simply select one from the menu. When you drag a course away from its position it is removed from its currently scheduled slots and dropped into the new slot. The positioning of the drop is dependent on the Insert Mode that is selected. These are discussed below. If the drag and drop interface does not schedule the class exactly as needed the user can always open the course information for that class and adjust the scheduling of it however they would like. It is hoped that the majority of the scheduling can be done without resorting to the course information dialog, much quicker with drag and drop.

Options:

Insert Modes: With each of these modes the Standard Timeslots are the ones that you originally populated the timeslot database with. Also the Free Positioning modes start the block of time at time within the current weekly schedule image. In the free positioning mode the start times increment by 5 minutes, hence the window should be made fairly large so that the drop can be more precise. Most likely you will use just a couple of these modes that will suit your needs, each mode has a shortcut of Ctrl+# or Alt+# to easily switch modes.