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Free Timetabling Software - nice free software
7th July 2012
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Included in Debian Edu is a -large collection of end user and school specific software. One of the -packages not installed by default but provided in the Debian archive -for schools to install if they want to, is a system to automatically -plan the school time table using information about available teachers, -classes and rooms, combined with the list of required courses and how -many hours each topic should receive. The software is +

Included in Debian Edu / +Skolelinux is a large collection of end user and school specific +software. It is one of the packages not installed by default but +provided in the Debian archive for schools to install if they want to, +is a system to automatically plan the school time table using +information about available teachers, classes and rooms, combined with +the list of required courses and how many hours each topic should +receive. The software is + named FET, and it provide a graphical user interface to input the required information, save the result in a fairly simple XML format, and generate time tables for @@ -38,245 +42,142 @@ Windows.

feature list, liftet from the project web site:

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  • FET is free software, licensed under the GNU GPL v2 or later. - You can freely use, copy, modify and redistribute it

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  • Localized to en_US (US English, default), ar (Arabic), ca (Catalan), da (Danish), - de (German), el (Greek), es (Spanish), fa (Persian), fr (French), gl (Galician), he (Hebrew), - hu (Hungarian), id (Indonesian), it (Italian), lt (Lithuanian), - mk (Macedonian), ms (Malay), nl (Dutch), pl (Polish), pt_BR (Brazilian Portuguese), ro (Romanian), - ru (Russian), si (Sinhala), sk (Slovak), sr (Serbian), tr (Turkish), uk (Ukrainian), uz (Uzbek) - and vi (Vietnamese) (incompletely for some languages)

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  • FET is free software, licensed under the GNU GPL v2 or later. + You can freely use, copy, modify and redistribute it
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  • Fully automatic generation - algorithm, allowing also semi-automatic or manual allocation

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  • Localized to en_US (US English, default), ar (Arabic), ca + (Catalan), da (Danish), de (German), el (Greek), es (Spanish), fa + (Persian), fr (French), gl (Galician), he (Hebrew), hu + (Hungarian), id (Indonesian), it (Italian), lt (Lithuanian), mk + (Macedonian), ms (Malay), nl (Dutch), pl (Polish), pt_BR + (Brazilian Portuguese), ro (Romanian), ru (Russian), si (Sinhala), + sk (Slovak), sr (Serbian), tr (Turkish), uk (Ukrainian), uz + (Uzbek) and vi (Vietnamese) (incompletely for some languages) +
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  • Platform independent - implementation, allowing running on GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac and any - system that Qt supports

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  • Fully automatic generation algorithm, allowing also + semi-automatic or manual allocation
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  • Flexible modular - XML format for the input file, allowing editing with an XML editor - or by hand (besides FET interface)

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  • Platform independent implementation, allowing running on + GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac and any system that Qt supports
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  • Import/export from CSV format

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  • Flexible modular XML format for the input file, allowing editing + with an XML editor or by hand (besides FET interface)
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  • The resulted timetables - are exported into HTML, XML and CSV formats

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  • Import/export from CSV format
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  • Flexible students - structure, organized into sets: years, groups and subgroups. FET allows - overlapping years and groups and non-overlapping subgroups. You can even - define individual students (as separate sets)

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  • The resulted timetables are exported into HTML, XML and CSV + formats
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  • Each constraint has a weight percentage, from 0.0% to 100.0% - (but some special constraints are allowed to have only 100% weight percentage)

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  • Flexible students structure, organized into sets: years, groups + and subgroups. FET allows overlapping years and groups and + non-overlapping subgroups. You can even define individual students + (as separate sets)
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  • Limits for the algorithm (all these limits can be increased on demand, - as a custom version, because this would require a bit more memory):

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  • Each constraint has a weight percentage, from 0.0% to 100.0% + (but some special constraints are allowed to have only 100% weight + percentage)
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  • Limits for the algorithm (all these limits can be increased on + demand, as a custom version, because this would require a bit more + memory): +
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    • Maximum total number of hours (periods) per day: 60
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    • Maximum number of working days per week: 35
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    • Maximum total number of teachers: 6000
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    • Maximum total number of sets of students: 30000
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    • Maximum total number of subjects: 6000
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    • Virtually unlimited number of activity tags
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    • Maximum number of activities: 30000
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    • Maximum number of rooms: 6000
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    • Maximum number of buildings: 6000
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    • Possibility of adding multiple teachers and + students sets for each activity. (it is possible + also to have no teachers or no students sets for an + activity)
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    • Virtually unlimited number of time constraints
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    • Virtually unlimited number of space constraints
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  • A large and flexible palette of time constraints: +
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    • Break periods
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    • For teacher(s): +
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      • Not available periods
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      • Max/min days per week
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      • Max gaps per day/week
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      • Max hours daily/continuously
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      • Min hours daily
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      • Max hours daily/continuously with an activity tag
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      • Respect working in an hourly interval a max number of + days per week
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    • For students (sets):
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      • Maximum total number of hours (periods) per day: 60

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      • Maximum number of working days per week: 35

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      • Maximum total number of teachers: 6000

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      • Maximum total number of sets of students: 30000

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      • Maximum total number of subjects: 6000

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      • Virtually unlimited number of activity tags

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      • Maximum number of activities: 30000

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      • Maximum number of rooms: 6000

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      • Maximum number of buildings: 6000

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      • Possibility of adding multiple teachers and students sets for each activity. - (it is possible also to have no teachers or no students sets for an activity)

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      • Virtually unlimited number of time constraints

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      • Virtually unlimited number of space constraints

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      • Not available periods
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      • Begins early (specify max allowed beginnings at second hour)
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      • Max gaps per day/week
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      • Max hours daily/continuously
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      • Min hours daily
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      • Max hours daily/continuously with an activity tag
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      • Respect working in an hourly interval a max number of + days per week
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    • For an activity or a set of activities/subactivities: +
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      • A single preferred starting time
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      • A set of preferred starting times
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      • A set of preferred time slots
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      • Min/max days between them
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      • End(s) students day
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      • Same starting time/day/hour
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      • Occupy max time slots from selection (a complex and + flexible constraint, useful in many situations)
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      • Consecutive, ordered, grouped (for 2 or 3 (sub)activities)
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      • Not overlapping
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      • Max simultaneous in selected time slots
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      • Min gaps between a set of (sub)activities
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  • A large and flexible palette of space constraints: +

- Created by Chronicle v4.4 + Created by Chronicle v4.6