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Vocational timetabling
Schedule workshops, labs, workplace learning, and mixed theory-practice weeks in vocational colleges.
Juho Isola, Smootables founder
Why is vocational timetabling harder than a standard secondary grid? Colleges must align workshop capacity, safety ratios, employer placements, and theory blocks across terms, often on multiple campuses. Spreadsheet planners and generic Untis setups can struggle when students follow different pathways.
These guides address scheduling for vocational and technical colleges: labs, work-based learning, alternating theory-practice weeks, individualized routes, and cross-campus delivery. They show what to model before the constraint solver runs and how Smootables handles pathway-level assignments.
These guides cover planner process and decisions, not a Smootables product comparison. To evaluate capabilities, see vocational college timetable software.
Guides in this topic
Select a guide below for process-focused depth on each step.
Workshop and lab scheduling
Station counts, rotation cycles, minimum consecutive hours, and the transition time shared spaces need.
Read guide →Work-based learning
Reserving placement days and travel early, and mapping them against core subjects before selection advice goes out.
Read guide →Mixed theory and practice weeks
Alternating classroom and workshop blocks without fragmenting either, with week patterns named before placement.
Read guide →Individual pathways
Collecting per-student selections, forming groups and option blocks, and assigning individually with exemptions.
Read guide →Multi-campus delivery
Travel windows in the schedule, campus-scoped offerings, and shared course lines priced against their transport.
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Related product pages
- Vocational college timetable softwarePlanning, timetable generation, and editing for career and technical colleges whose schedules combine workshops, specialist equipment, mixed cohorts, individual pathways, and workplace learning.
- Best timetable software for vocational schools (2026)A buyer's guide to evaluating timetable software for vocational and career colleges: categories of products, dimensions that usually decide it, and questions to ask each vendor.
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