Once you have set up detention types with default times and dates, you can choose how detentions are scheduled.
To control how detentions are automatically scheduled throughout your school, click on the three lines menu in the top right-hand corner and select School Settings from the list of available options.
From the School Settings page, click on the Detentions tab on the left-hand side of the screen and select Detention options.
You will be presented with the Automatically awarded detentions section. The available settings are explained below:
Automatically schedule detentions awarded by intelligence events
Enabled: Detentions awarded through intelligence events will be scheduled automatically based on your school’s default detention date settings.
Disabled: Detentions awarded through intelligence events aren’t scheduled for a specific date, appearing in the Unscheduled section of the detentions manager instead.
Automatically schedule upscaled detentions
Enabled: Detentions awarded through upscaling will be scheduled automatically based on your school’s default detention date settings.
Disabled: Detentions awarded through upscaling aren’t scheduled for a specific date, appearing in the Unscheduled section of the detentions manager instead.
Allow clashes when automatically scheduling detentions
Enabled: Automatically scheduled detentions will ignore detention clashes.
Disabled: Automatically scheduled detentions will be rescheduled to the next available slot if a clash is detected.