Included in
This is the +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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+ Fully automatic generation + algorithm, allowing also semi-automatic or manual allocation
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+ Platform independent + implementation, allowing running on GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac and any + system that Qt supports
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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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+ Import/export from CSV format
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+ The resulted timetables + are exported into HTML, XML and CSV formats
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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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+ 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 +
+ + Max/min days per week +
+ + Max gaps per day/week +
+ + Max hours daily/continuously +
+ + Min hours daily +
+ + Max hours daily/continuously with an activity tag +
+ + Respect working in an hourly interval a max number of days per week +
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+ For students (sets):
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+ Not available periods +
+ + Begins early (specify max allowed beginnings at second hour) +
+ + Max gaps per day/week +
+ + Max hours daily/continuously +
+ + Min hours daily +
+ + Max hours daily/continuously with an activity tag +
+ + 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 +
+ + A set of preferred starting times +
+ + A set of preferred time slots +
+ + Min/max days between them +
+ + End(s) students day +
+ + Same starting time/day/hour +
+ + Occupy max time slots from selection + (a complex and flexible constraint, useful in many situations) +
+ + Consecutive, ordered, grouped (for 2 or 3 (sub)activities) +
+ + Not overlapping +
+ + Max simultaneous in selected time slots +
+ + Min gaps between a set of (sub)activities +
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+ A large and flexible + palette of space constraints:
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Room not available periods
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+ For teacher(s):
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+ Home room(s) +
+ + Max building changes per day/week +
+ + Min gaps between building changes +
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+ For students (sets):
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+ Home room(s) +
+ + Max building changes per day/week +
+ + Min gaps between building changes +
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+ Preferred room(s):
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+ For a subject +
+ + For an activity tag +
+ + For a subject and an activity tag +
+ + Individually for a (sub)activity +
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+ For a set of activities:
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+ Occupy a maximum number of different rooms +
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I have not used it myself, as I am not involved in time table +planning at a school, but it seem to work fine when I test it. If you +need to set up your schools time table, and is tired of doing it +manually, check it out. + +A quick summary on how to use it can be found in +a +blog post from MarvelSoft. If you find FET useful, please provide +a recipe for the Debian Edu project in the +Debian Edu HowTo +section.
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