Purpose

This report details the seats allocated to students within a venue for each examination

Structure

Block

Seating Allocation Report

Purpose

It is used to inform students of their allocated seat for each examination and to assist supervisors in ensuring that each student is correctly seated.

Run Details

This job is run:

• At intervals before/during an Examination Period.

This job is run before/during Examination Periods to provide information:

• On seating arrangements within an examination for students and supervisors.
• To assist supervisors checking attendance, in conjunction with the Exam Attendance Rolls Report (ASSR06F0).

It is recommended that this job be run in batch mode. However, it can be run online, particularly where the report is run with parameters specifying a small data set, such as a specific Examination Session.

Refer to the Job Control and Scheduling Subsystem for details on scheduling and running batch and online jobs.

The Seating Allocation Report block contains:

Parameters tab

• Examination Calendar
• Examination Location
• Examination Venue
• Examination Date
• Examination Session
• Unit Code
• Display Options
  This parameter is used to define the person details displayed. The 'Person ID Only' and 'Surname Only' options would normally be used only for displaying seating details on noticeboards for students. The 'Person ID & Surname' option would normally be used when running the report for exam supervisors.
• Report Sort Options

Rules/Notes:

Note: The % symbol indicates that the parameter is not considered for processing.

Most parameters in this job are used to refine the data set produced in this report.

There are five sort combinations that can be selected from the LOV.

The report is presented in portrait mode.