Many schools use the concept of the homeroom as a means of grouping students for administrative business. Often the homeroom is the first-place students report to at the beginning of the school day. In the homeroom they may receive important announcements or paperwork the school needs to distribute. In some cases, schools may have the children in a homeroom when meals are served.


MealTime allows you to assign students to homerooms, making it easy to rapidly serve meals by displaying photos for the homeroom currently coming through the serving line. Homerooms can also be assigned by importing the homeroom from your student information system as part of your daily student import.


TABLE OF CONTENTS


-> Go To: Point of Sale > SETTINGS > District Details > Homerooms


Manage Homerooms

1. Select a Homeroom to edit from the list window and click Edit or click Add to create a new Homeroom. 


2. Enter the *School Name the homerooms reside in.
Note! Schools must first be added to the Schools page in MealTime to be available for selection.


3. Enter the *Homeroom Name.


4. Click Save to save the homeroom or Cancel to cancel the process.


Once students have been assigned to the Homeroom, a list of those students will be displayed when the Homeroom is selected:


Change a student's Homeroom

Students are generally assigned to homerooms via Customer Import or individually via the Customer Information page. The Customer List can be used to change a student's homeroom once they've been assigned to one.


1. Select a Homeroom from the list window, or use the search function to locate it, and click the Edit button.


2. Locate the student in the Customer list and click on the Homeroom Name dropdown menu to the left of their name:


3. Select a new Homeroom to assign the student to.


4. Click Save to save the student's homeroom assignment or Cancel to cancel the process.



Inactivate Empty Homerooms

Homerooms with no active students can be easily inactivated when no longer needed. 


1. Click the Inactivate Empty Homerooms button located below the search window.


2. Confirm the inactivation by clicking Continue or click Cancel to cancel the process:


When the inactivation is complete, a confirmation message will display the total number of homerooms that have been inactivated:


3. Click OK to return to the Homerooms page.