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Created by Guest
Created on May 16, 2024

Cover Manager RSS feed should distiguish between Teacher and Room cover

The Cover Manager generates an RSS feed of published cover for the day, which we use to show a list of cover in external systems (e.g. Teams)

However both the published Teacher cover and the Room cover use the same output format:

<timetable slot>: <covering> to cover for <normal lesson teacher> with <set> [<subject>] in room <room>

the only thing that changes is that <covering> is a teacher for Teacher cover or a room for Room cover. This makes the feed more difficult to read than it should be.

It would be better if Room cover used a different format that showed the covering relationship adjacent, e.g.:

<timetable slot>: room <covering room> in place of <normal lesson room> for <set> [<subject>] with <normal lesson teacher>

Perhaps also, the teacher cover layout could then add the word "teacher" before the covering teacher name to emphasise the distinction, so:

<timetable slot>: teacher <covering teacher> to cover for <normal lesson teacher> with <set> [<subject>] in room <room>


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