Nika Lux

Program basic features

The result of the program work is the school timetable, compiled with a minimum number of "gaps" for teachers. If there are any remarks as for the calculation final result, the operator has an opportunity to use a convenient tool for the timetable manual edit.

The program takes into account:

if there are shifts in the school, five- or six-day attendance mode;
availability of enough classrooms, including the possibility of scheduling several buildings at the same time;
days- and time-off for teachers, including the possibility to select the optimal ones;
days and hours of extracurricular activities (excursions, theatre, external practical exercises, etc.);
limits on daily teaching workload, considering the complexity of subjects.

The program provides:

effective control of the initial data input, signaling the presence and nature of user errors;
flexible start of studies for both shifts;
splitting classes into groups (up to four groups), including for different subjects;
lessons doubling, tripling, etc. ;
classes merger (not excluding further split into groups);
ability to specify rules for combination of subjects or teachers, for example, you can prohibit the program from scheduling certain subjects one after another or vice versa;
one teacher can teach many subjects;
observance of "Grade levels" (when the teacher's lessons must be scheduled within same Grade level within one day);
limiting the maximum allowable number of lessons per subject per day;
scheduling lessons for a teacher giving lessons in both groups of the same class (formation of pairs with other teachers or lessons arrangement to the first / last lesson);
timetable display and print in different forms, including individual teachers or classes schedules, classrooms occupancy reports, and others;
instant timetable publishing in the school website/ public WEB-portal «NIKA-Soft»/ lobby kiosk-terminals/ LCD information dashboards;
export to Excel, OpenOffice Calc;
friendly semi-automatic manual editor of the calculated timetable;
storage in one file of several timetables for different periods of the academic year.

New ergonomic "game" type interface allows you to specify any configuration of classes splitting into groups while implementing multidirectional training programs for individual students and groups of students.

Within one class, several splitting into groups (up to four groups) can be created.

For example:

Physical education - two groups (boys and girls);

Profiles - three groups (physicists, lyricists, botanists) with a different set of subjects for each profile;

Foreign language - three groups (English, Spanish, German).

Nika-Lux 7 New Features

- Appeared a module that takes into account passages of teachers and students between remote buildings.

- New rules added for combining subjects and teachers.

- The mechanism for managing classrooms distribution has become more flexible.

- Substitution and NIKA-Online modules have been significantly improved.

There are many other routine, but pleasant improvements that make working with the program clearer and more convenient.

Registration and activation of the program occur automatically via the Internet, now you do not need to contact us via e-mail. Transferring the program from computer to computer can also be done on your own.

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This software greatly facilitates the work of a school head teacher responsible for timetabling. One of the program distinctive peculiarities is its high calculating speed. This allows the user for a short period of time to work out several timetable options, experimenting with different variations of the initial data, and finally make the most optimal decision.

Reviews of thousands of our users indicate that the NIKA timetabling program is the best in its class, surpassing all available domestic and foreign counterparts in terms of such parameters as calculation speed, quality of scheduling, taking into account the maximum possible number of schools’ particularities, governmental requirements and restrictions etc.

The program can be downloaded for free and used for 6 months.

WE SUGGEST NOT A TIMETABLE EDITOR - "NIKA-LUX" MAKES TIMETABLES!

EXCEPTIONALLY SIMPLE DATA ENTRY!

TIMETABLE INSTANT CALCULATION!