I've got to prepare a training schedule for 20 different courses, for 60 staff, with 3 rooms and 3 trainers over 4 weeks (not all rooms or trainers can do all of the courses!)
I've done it on a much smaller scale than this but nothing quite this big, and it's a bit daunting.
I've worked out how many times each course has to run based on the maximum number who can attend each course (this varies per topic/room space).
I've worked out that all courses need to run 3 times, some need to run 4 times and one needs to run 10 times so all in all about 70 courses over the 20 days - most are half day courses so can have two courses in a day (or 6 courses in a day if needs be if the topics allow the 3 trainers to all run a different course twice)
I think I'm going to prepare 3 programmes for 3 'cohorts' - avoiding clashes with trainers/rooms and then add in the extra courses where necessary. Does this sound sensible?
I don't have any fancy software to do this...just a large pad, pencil and rubber!
Any thoughts from those in the know as to how best to tackle this would be appreciated - my head hurts just thinking about it!
KJB
