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