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Room Requirements
This page is to assist the members of the teaching staff with completing the Unit data collection forms for timetabling purposes with regard to specifying the requirements for rooms on campus for their teaching activities.
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Suitabilities
Suitabilities are attributes that are attached to rooms or locations which tell us which rooms are suitable for your particular class.
All rooms or locations are allocated suitabilities that can denote specific equipment, layout and uses of the room and their locality with respect to teaching disciplines, which then allow us to identify rooms which meet all the teaching requirements of your activities. This information is what we ask to be provided in the ROOM REQUIREMENTS columns on the form.
The suitabilites are grouped into three types:
- Resources/Equipment
- These are suitabilities such as items like projectors or microscopes, fixtures such as screens and storage cupboards or attributes like whether the location is tiered or flat, has an adjacent prep room or houses specific teaching resources.
- Type
- These suitabilities specify the uses of the room such as for lectures, computing or laboratory work.
- Zone
- These suitabilities denote the locality of the room with regard to the teaching disciplines and areas so that appropriate room types as close as possible to the teaching staff involved will be allocated.
Why do we want this detail? Our statistics show that about 1 in 7 requests for changes to a scheduled timetable occur due to the location being unsuitable for the activity. Often it is excluding an item of equipment, assuming that it has a particular resource or that the room must have tables & chairs and not trestle chairs but not specifying this requirement. By providing us with full and correct information on room requirements for your teaching needs, we will be able to schedule activities in locations that match your true requirements before the timetable is published.
What if I need a room or location that is not in the system? This does not matter, we can still create an activity with no room allocated. This is especially useful for residential schools where a class may be held in a research laboratory on-campus or in an off-campus location; the class can still be included on the timetable so students know that there is an activity on at that time. Simply leave all room requirement columns blank to indicate this, or select the off-campus zone for excursions (note that there are some off-campus locations that are managed by UNE and are in the system which activity can be allocated to).
Room Resources
Each location is given a set of these suitabilities which can be either a primary or secondary attribute. For example, Madgwick Hall is primarily used as a general purpose hall but may also be used for theatre performances and as an examination venue and so has these suitabilities as secondary room type attributes. In allocating rooms to teaching activities, the rooms that match the primary suitabilities are selected but if no rooms with that suitability as a primary attribute are available then a room that has that suitability as a secondary attribute will be selected.How would you like to see the room resources?
View the resources of individual rooms.
View the rooms that match a resource or suitability.
Locations and their suitabilities:
Below are documents that list individual rooms in the timetabling system grouped by building code and which also provides their capacities, major departmental zones and suitabilities. The suitabilities for each room are listed in order of Resource/Equipment, Type and Zone.- Main UNE Campus
- Central campus
- Buildings designated with a C code.
- Eastern campus
- Buildings designated with a E code.
- Southern campus
- Buildings designated with a S code.
- Western campus
- Buildings designated with a W code.
- Other locations
- CB Newling
- The CB Newling building in south Armidale.
- Off-Campus
- Locations within Armidale surrounds.