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  13      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  21       <div class="title">Free Timetabling Software - nice free software</div>
  22       <div class="date"> 7th July 2012</div>
  23       <div class="body"><p>Included in <ahref="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu</a> is a
  24 large collection of end user and school specific software.  One of the
  25 packages not installed by default but provided in the Debian archive
  26 for schools to install if they want to, is a system to automatically
  27 plan the school time table using information about available teachers,
  28 classes and rooms, combined with the list of required courses and how
  29 many hours each topic should receive.  The software is
  30 <a href="http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/">named FET</a>, and it provide a
  31 graphical user interface to input the required information, save the
  32 result in a fairly simple XML format, and generate time tables for
  33 both teachers and students.  It is available both for
  34 <a href="http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/download.html">Linux, MacOSX and
  35 Windows</a>.</p>
  36
  37 <p>This is <a href="http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/features.html">the
  38 feature list</a>, liftet from the project web site:</p>
  39
  40 <p><ul>
  41         <li><p>FET is free software, licensed under the GNU GPL v2 or later.
  42         You can freely use, copy, modify and redistribute it</p>
  43         </li>
  44
  45         <li><p>Localized to en_US (US English, default), ar (Arabic), ca (Catalan), da (Danish),
  46         de (German), el (Greek), es (Spanish), fa (Persian), fr (French), gl (Galician), he (Hebrew),
  47         hu (Hungarian), id (Indonesian), it (Italian), lt (Lithuanian),
  48         mk (Macedonian), ms (Malay), nl (Dutch), pl (Polish), pt_BR (Brazilian Portuguese), ro (Romanian),
  49         ru (Russian), si (Sinhala), sk (Slovak), sr (Serbian), tr (Turkish), uk (Ukrainian), uz (Uzbek)
  50         and vi (Vietnamese) (incompletely for some languages)</p>
  51         </li>
  52
  53         <li><p>Fully automatic generation
  54         algorithm, allowing also semi-automatic or manual allocation</p>
  55         </li>
  56
  57         <li><p>Platform independent
  58         implementation, allowing running on GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac and any
  59         system that Qt supports</p>
  60         </li>
  61
  62         <li><p>Flexible modular
  63         XML format for the input file, allowing editing with an XML editor
  64         or by hand (besides FET interface)</p>
  65         </li>
  66
  67         <li><p>Import/export from CSV format</p>
  68         </li>
  69
  70         <li><p>The resulted timetables
  71         are exported into HTML, XML and CSV formats</p>
  72         </li>
  73
  74         <li><p>Flexible students
  75         structure, organized into sets: years, groups and subgroups. FET allows
  76         overlapping years and groups and non-overlapping subgroups. You can even
  77         define individual students (as separate sets)</p>
  78         </li>
  79
  80         <li><p>Each constraint has a weight percentage, from 0.0% to 100.0%
  81         (but some special constraints are allowed to have only 100% weight percentage)</p>
  82         </li>
  83
  84         <li><p>Limits for the algorithm (all these limits can be increased on demand,
  85         as a custom version, because this would require a bit more memory):</p>
  86
  87         <ul>
  88                 <li><p>Maximum total number of hours (periods) per day: 60</p></li>
  89
  90                 <li><p>Maximum number of working days per week: 35</p></li>
  91
  92                 <li><p>Maximum total number of teachers: 6000</p></li>
  93
  94                 <li><p>Maximum total number of sets of students: 30000</p></li>
  95
  96                 <li><p>Maximum total number of subjects: 6000</p></li>
  97
  98                 <li><p>Virtually unlimited number of activity tags</p></li>
  99
 100                 <li><p>Maximum number of activities: 30000</p></li>
 101
 102                 <li><p>Maximum number of rooms: 6000</p></li>
 103
 104                 <li><p>Maximum number of buildings: 6000</p></li>
 105
 106                 <li><p>Possibility of adding multiple teachers and students sets for each activity.
 107                 (it is possible also to have no teachers or no students sets for an activity)</p></li>
 108
 109                 <li><p>Virtually unlimited number of time constraints</p></li>
 110
 111                 <li><p>Virtually unlimited number of space constraints</p></li>
 112         </ul>
 113
 114         </li>
 115
 116         <li><p>A large and flexible
 117         palette of time constraints:</p>
 118         <ul>
 119
 120                 <li><p>Break periods</p>
 121                 </li>
 122
 123                 <li><p>For teacher(s):</p>
 124                 <ul>
 125                         <li><p>
 126                                 Not available periods
 127                         </p></li>
 128                         <li><p>
 129                                 Max/min days per week
 130                         </p></li>
 131                         <li><p>
 132                                 Max gaps per day/week
 133                         </p></li>
 134                         <li><p>
 135                                 Max hours daily/continuously
 136                         </p></li>
 137                         <li><p>
 138                                 Min hours daily
 139                         </p></li>
 140                         <li><p>
 141                                 Max hours daily/continuously with an activity tag
 142                         </p></li>
 143                         <li><p>
 144                                 Respect working in an hourly interval a max number of days per week
 145                         </p></li>
 146                 </ul>
 147                 </li>
 148
 149                 <li><p>For students (sets):</p>
 150                 <ul>
 151                         <li><p>
 152                                 Not available periods
 153                         </p></li>
 154                         <li><p>
 155                                 Begins early (specify max allowed beginnings at second hour)
 156                         </p></li>
 157                         <li><p>
 158                                 Max gaps per day/week
 159                         </p></li>
 160                         <li><p>
 161                                 Max hours daily/continuously
 162                         </p></li>
 163                         <li><p>
 164                                 Min hours daily
 165                         </p></li>
 166                         <li><p>
 167                                 Max hours daily/continuously with an activity tag
 168                         </p></li>
 169                         <li><p>
 170                                 Respect working in an hourly interval a max number of days per week
 171                         </p></li>
 172                 </ul>
 173                 </li>
 174
 175                 <li><p>For an activity or a set of activities/subactivities:</p>
 176                 <ul>
 177                         <li><p>
 178                                 A single preferred starting time
 179                         </p></li>
 180                         <li><p>
 181                                 A set of preferred starting times
 182                         </p></li>
 183                         <li><p>
 184                                 A set of preferred time slots
 185                         </p></li>
 186                         <li><p>
 187                                 Min/max days between them
 188                         </p></li>
 189                         <li><p>
 190                                 End(s) students day
 191                         </p></li>
 192                         <li><p>
 193                                 Same starting time/day/hour
 194                         </p></li>
 195                         <li><p>
 196                                 Occupy max time slots from selection
 197                                 (a complex and flexible constraint, useful in many situations)
 198                         </p></li>
 199                         <li><p>
 200                                 Consecutive, ordered, grouped (for 2 or 3 (sub)activities)
 201                         </p></li>
 202                         <li><p>
 203                                 Not overlapping
 204                         </p></li>
 205                         <li><p>
 206                                 Max simultaneous in selected time slots
 207                         </p></li>
 208                         <li><p>
 209                                 Min gaps between a set of (sub)activities
 210                         </p></li>
 211                 </ul>
 212                 </li>
 213         </ul>
 214
 215         </li>
 216
 217         <li><p>A large and flexible
 218         palette of space constraints:</p>
 219         <ul>
 220
 221                 <li><p>Room not available periods</p>
 222                 </li>
 223
 224                 <li><p>For teacher(s):</p>
 225                 <ul>
 226                         <li><p>
 227                                 Home room(s)
 228                         </p></li>
 229                         <li><p>
 230                                 Max building changes per day/week
 231                         </p></li>
 232                         <li><p>
 233                                 Min gaps between building changes
 234                         </p></li>
 235                 </ul>
 236                 </li>
 237
 238                 <li><p>For students (sets):</p>
 239                 <ul>
 240                         <li><p>
 241                                 Home room(s)
 242                         </p></li>
 243                         <li><p>
 244                                 Max building changes per day/week
 245                         </p></li>
 246                         <li><p>
 247                                 Min gaps between building changes
 248                         </p></li>
 249                 </ul>
 250                 </li>
 251
 252                 <li><p>Preferred room(s):</p>
 253                 <ul>
 254                         <li><p>
 255                                 For a subject
 256                         </p></li>
 257                         <li><p>
 258                                 For an activity tag
 259                         </p></li>
 260                         <li><p>
 261                                 For a subject and an activity tag
 262                         </p></li>
 263                         <li><p>
 264                                 Individually for a (sub)activity
 265                         </p></li>
 266                 </ul>
 267                 </li>
 268
 269                 <li><p>For a set of activities:</p>
 270                 <ul>
 271                         <li><p>
 272                                 Occupy a maximum number of different rooms
 273                         </p></li>
 274                 </ul>
 275                 </li>
 276
 277         </ul>
 278
 279         </li>
 280 </ul></p>
 281
 282 <p>I have not used it myself, as I am not involved in time table
 283 planning at a school, but it seem to work fine when I test it.  If you
 284 need to set up your schools time table, and is tired of doing it
 285 manually, check it out.
 286
 287 A quick summary on how to use it can be found in
 288 <a href="http://marvelsoft.co.in/wp/2012/03/generate-timetable-for-state-cbse-icse-igcse-schools-free/">a
 289 blog post from MarvelSoft</a>.  If you find FET useful, please provide
 290 a recipe for the Debian Edu project in the
 291 <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu#Howtos">Debian Edu HowTo
 292 section</a>.</p>
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