This selection enables you to move a component from its course to another course by scanning all permissible courses combinations and displaying their properties (lectures, gaps, matches and names). This tool is especially useful in schools with personalised timetables.
When you activate this selection, all components of the current category are scanned, and for each component and course combination all other courses are studied in order to find and list all feasible course replacements.
If you select from the list the first option [no change => go to next course] and click Ok, no replacement is made and the next replacement options are listed. Click Cancel to quit searching, or if the list is not shown (because feasible replacements cannot be found), click the component grid.
If you select a course from the list, the active component is moved from its previous course to the selected course and searching continues.
To ease filtering of the appropriate candidate courses from all courses, some key parameters of the original and the candidate course are calculated:
For example, the notation 3->2g means that the number of gaps of the current component is decreased by one (from 3 to 2), if the replacement is performed. The number of components (4->5x) in the leaving and receiving courses is calculated before the replacement is made - after the replacement the numbers are 3 and 6, respectively.
Before you invoke this selection, Mimosa prompts you to specify, if you want to limit your search only to specific courses that satisfy your requirements. If you want to see a list of all feasible course candidates for replacement, answer Yes to question
Search for all feasible course candidates?
If you answer No, you can limit your search in four ways. For instance, if you only want to search for courses that have an equal number of lectures as the original course, answer Yes to question
Lectures of courses (MAX) must be equal (h)?
If you do not want to compromise with the quality of the timetables (in the sense of not allowing the replacements to increase their gaps), answer Yes to question
Number of gaps in timetables cannot be increased (g)?
In some schools two courses can be assumed to be equivalent, if they share same name (although their codes are always different). If this is your criteria to select courses for replacement, answer Yes to this question
Names of courses must be identical (names)?
Alternatively, if you assume that courses can be replaced, if they share same components, you can answer Yes to question
Courses must have at least one same component (matches)?
The number of matches indicate the number of same components in both courses, but excluding the components of the category that is currently being scanned. If you are searching for replacements for students, the same components from both courses of this category are not counted as matches. Subjects can also be used to identify that the two courses can be replaced.
Copy copies the list of replaceable courses onto the Clipboard.