Timetables
Key to Codes
Each box on the grid contains:
Lecturer's Name (Top left hand corner)
Room Number (A code letter for the Building, then "G" for ground floor, "1" for first floor or "2" for second floor and lastly a number). Examples: C104 - First Floor Henry Grattan, Q220 - Second Floor DCU Business School, XG01 - Ground Floor New Science Building.
Week Numbers. Normally this will be 1-12 for weeks 1 to 12 of this semester. An entry such as "3,5,7,9,11" means every second week starting week 3.
Activity Code: This is a composite code. The first 5 characters (either two letters and a three digit number or a five digit number are the module code associated with this activity. This is followed by a code in brackets where 1 = semester 1 only, 0 = all year round.
Then there is a letter L = Lecture, T = Tutorial, P = Practical or S = Seminar. This is followed by two numbers which should be read in conjunction with the letter code. If there are say 3 lectures for this module they will be coded L1/1, L2/1 and L3/1.
Sometimes in the case of lectures and more often the case of Tutorials and Practical the number of students involved is large the group will be divided into different sets. Thus a group of 100 might be divided into 2 groups of 50 for a tutorial and if they have two tutorials per week they would be coded T1/1, T1/2 for the first group and T2/1 , T2/2 for the second group.
Occasionally to handle complicated situations codes will be encountered such as T1/2a, P2/3b and P2/2i. These occur where it has been necessary to further divide a class group or a series of activities. Each Activity Code ends up being unique for a particular combination of Student Set, Lecturer, Module, Type of activity and week span.
If "-02" appears in an activity code it indicates an activity for part time students.
The last item in each box is usually a description of the module but sometimes is a more elaborate description of the activity.
Occasionally artificial Activity Codes have been used for example those starting with "YY" or with "z" because the actual teaching pattern of the module is too complicated to use the module code directly.
