I have to schedule a large number of students for remediation. I have some
students who have five study halls and some that have only one or two. I
need to find a way to create a remediation schedule that limits the number of
students that can come each period, but still gets each student to a
remediation period. I have already thought about naming each period of the
week as 11, 12, 13 (day 1, period 1; day 1, period 2; day1, period 3) up to
57, 58 (day 5, period 7; day 5, period 8). I can list the study halls that
each student has by using these numbers. If anyone has any suggestions as to
how to proceed so that I can schedule those students who have one study hall
before the students who also have the same study hall period but have other
study halls in which they could be scheduled, I would appreciate your help.

Unless someone has spent a few years making a special program just for your
purposes...this is the tricky part "but have other study halls in which they
could be scheduled". Maybe using a random number generators to schedule them
and seeing how little never get scheduled. And let the randomness keep
running until everyone gets scheduled.

"Mort 62" wrote:

I have to schedule a large number of students for remediation. I have some
students who have five study halls and some that have only one or two. I
need to find a way to create a remediation schedule that limits the number of
students that can come each period, but still gets each student to a
remediation period. I have already thought about naming each period of the
week as 11, 12, 13 (day 1, period 1; day 1, period 2; day1, period 3) up to
57, 58 (day 5, period 7; day 5, period 8). I can list the study halls that
each student has by using these numbers. If anyone has any suggestions as to
how to proceed so that I can schedule those students who have one study hall
before the students who also have the same study hall period but have other
study halls in which they could be scheduled, I would appreciate your help.