Room setup

Once you have a building set up in a school, you can add rooms to that building.

On the home page, in the control bar under ADMIN, click School Setup. The School Setup page appears.

Under School, click Buildings and Rooms. The Buildings page appears with a list of buildings.

In the # Rooms column, click the number of rooms for the building in which the room is located. The Rooms page appears.

In the Actions menu click Add Room....

To change the properties of a room in a building, click the room's name or select the room and in the Actions menu click Edit Room....

Enter or change Information, which includes:

Room no.: A short name for the room. This is the name Chancery SMS uses in lists across the system.

Room name: A meaningful description; for example, "Social Studies Classroom", "Biology Lab".

Room type: Functional description, such as "Classroom", "Gymnasium", "Lecture hall", "Multi-purpose room".

Optimal capacity: The optimal number of students for this room.

Maximum capacity: The maximum number of students this room is permitted to hold.

Can be scheduled: Indicates that this room is available for use by a class in the schedule.

Allow (#) concurrent classes: Where the room can accommodate more than once class at the same time, specifies how many simultaneous classes are possible. Examples of such rooms include a gymnasium, a science lab, a library, and a trades shop.

Wheelchair accessible: Indicates that a student in a wheelchair can get to and use the room.

Communication number: The telephone, pager, fax, or similar number for the room or the main contact person for the room, of alternate contacts, or all of these. An email address is also acceptable.

Click OK.

Or, to immediately add another room, click Save & Add.

You can delete a room. However, before doing so you must ensure that no class is assigned to it.