This screen is where you will most probably spend most of your time. As the concepts of grouping are quite in depth, I will not cover it here, but you can follow it via the following link Groups in more detail Here I want to concentrate more on the workings of the layout window.
The last group displayed, will always be the blank group where you will drag the educator, class, room and subject onto. This will append a new blank group on the end and the process is then repeated.
To speed things up, you can enter in the group defaults that will be used on the groups that are created. These defaults can be changed as required before the next batch is entered. You also have the 'Options - Quick Group Label' menu option which will provide a default label for the group based on the subject and class name.
To remove a group or an educator, or class, or room, or subject from a group, select it and drag it to the trashcan in the bottom right.
Looking at the above image, you will see that 'Spears B.' was selected, and then the column (where it says '41 Educators') was clicked. The same was done to the Subjects Column with the subject 'TECH' selected. This effectively locks these two columns as shown in the status bar at the bottom. By dragging 'Grade 8a' onto the 'New Group' label then 'Grade 8b' onto the next 'New Group' Label this effectively adds the educator and the subject at the same time, once again saving you a bit more time. To unlock the column, simply click on the column heading.
You are able to 'Lock' any of the columns except for the groups column.