Key takeaways
- Mark which offerings belong to which campus.
- Identify course or elective lines shared across sites.
- Build travel windows for teachers who move between campuses.
- Treat bus capacity and student travel as constraints when learners cross sites.
What must be known per campus?
Each offering needs a campus context. Some courses or elective lines stay on one site, while others are shared across sites. The timetable has to show which case applies before students or teachers are moved.
Campus scope also affects individual pathways. A course choice may be possible only if the learner can travel to the campus where that line runs.
Which cross-site facts belong in the plan?
Keep the cross-campus facts visible before sessions are placed.
- Home campus for each offering
- Course or elective lines shared across sites
- Students assigned to travel for a shared line
- Bus or transport capacity for cross-site movement
- Teachers who need to move between campuses
- Travel windows between campus commitments
How do planners place a shared elective line?
Place the line as a cross-campus commitment, not as a normal single-site lesson.
- Confirm which campuses offer the course or elective line.
- Identify the students who need to attend from another site.
- Check transport or bus capacity for those students.
- Add teacher travel windows where staff move between campuses.
- Place the shared line where travel is possible.
- Report which students travel for the final pattern.
Why should travel be explicit?
Teacher travel between campuses can reduce instructional time and add fatigue. The sourced scheduling principle is to create travel windows rather than using breaks or preparation periods as hidden travel time.
Student travel also needs a capacity check when shared lines depend on buses or other transport. A timetable that places the lesson but ignores travel capacity is incomplete.
What can go wrong in a multi-campus pattern?
These are the conflicts this guide is meant to surface.
- A teacher is placed on two campuses without a travel window
- A shared line is offered without enough transport capacity
- Students are assigned to a course but not listed as travelling
- A campus-scoped offering is treated as available everywhere
- Travel is hidden inside breaks or preparation time
- Cross-site choices are checked after option blocks are already fixed
Where does this guide stop?
This guide covers campus scope, shared lines, student travel, bus capacity, and teacher travel windows. For the per-student option pattern that decides who needs a shared line, see individual pathways.
Questions planners ask about multi-campus delivery
What is campus-scoped delivery?
It means an offering belongs to a campus unless it is deliberately shared across sites.
Where should teacher travel go?
Put travel in the timetable as a window between campuses. Do not assume breaks or preparation periods can absorb it.
What should be reported for travelling students?
For shared cross-campus lines, planners need to know which students travel and whether transport capacity can carry them.