Section Period Blocks in Flex Scheduling
Traditional scheduling has the Block field where you can specify a section meets across multiple periods. Yes in Flex you can create a period that spans the time frame of the class but that only gives you one opportunity to take attendance for that class, just once for that Flex period.
In our summer school they offer for credit classes that run all day and a student will only take one class. (This will show on their transcript) But the day is broken up with breaks where the students go outside, use the restroom, eat a snack, ect. The staff want to be able to account for all students after these breaks and this is where the section Block worked perfectly. A single section could be set to span over 2 or more periods. Those periods were all defined with start and end times, and each time the section entered a new period the teacher can take attendance again for the class.
Flex scheduling currently can not do this.
Jeff Watts
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GEo
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During summer school, our school district utilizes Period Blocks to enable a single section to encompass attendance across five periods. Presently, Flex does not offer this feature, necessitating the creation of five separate sections. However, managing these extra sections would become overwhelming for our sites.
