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