one task, many students and teachers

[Austin]

I'm still new to project, and I'm having trouble with this. Basically, I
have a task, I'll call it a "lesson." This lesson has many students (say 20)
and many teachers (1 teacher for every 2 students.)

I basically want to tell Project "I have 20 students that will need teachers
(1 for every 2 students) for this task." Is there a way to do this?

I know the number of teachers I have and the number of students, but I want
to see if any teachers will be overallocated once many lessons requiring
teachers are taught in parallel.

 

[Jim Aksel]

You will have to write code to make these decisions for you.
Make sure to identify the students and teachers as two separate groups on
the resource sheet.

So, you would assign your students to the "Lessons" tasks, then run a Macro
to allocate teachers based on counts. Resource leveling could handle the
overallocation of teachers as long as you have some amount of flexibility as
to when the lessons can start/end.

Could you maybe take a different approach? Teacher1-Lesson1 as a task.
Teacher2-Lesson1 as a task. Then fill that way?
You could link all the Teacher1 tasks FS so that the Teacher1 was never
overloaded.

Maybe summary tasks: Teacher One. Then load lessons below that level-
Lesson1, Lesson2, Lesson3. The compliment of that would also work. A
summary level task: Lesson1. Subordinate to that: Teacher1, Teacher2,
Teacher3 and then assign the students.

Using my thought process - Teachers would not be resources, the would be
activites. Probably not the best approach but it would avoid coding.

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Jim
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