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Title: Free Timetabling Software - nice free software
-Tags: english, debian edu
+Tags: english, debian edu, nice free software
Date: 2012-07-07 09:50
-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
@@ -20,243 +22,142 @@ Windows.
feature list, liftet from the project web site:
- - FET is free software, licensed under the GNU GPL v2 or later.
- You can freely use, copy, modify and redistribute it
-
-
- - 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)
-
+
+ - FET is free software, licensed under the GNU GPL v2 or later.
+ You can freely use, copy, modify and redistribute it
- - Fully automatic generation
- algorithm, allowing also semi-automatic or manual allocation
-
+ - 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)
+
- - Platform independent
- implementation, allowing running on GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac and any
- system that Qt supports
-
+ - Fully automatic generation algorithm, allowing also
+ semi-automatic or manual allocation
- - Flexible modular
- XML format for the input file, allowing editing with an XML editor
- or by hand (besides FET interface)
-
+ - Platform independent implementation, allowing running on
+ GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac and any system that Qt supports
- - Import/export from CSV format
-
+ - Flexible modular XML format for the input file, allowing editing
+ with an XML editor or by hand (besides FET interface)
- - The resulted timetables
- are exported into HTML, XML and CSV formats
-
+ - Import/export from CSV format
- - 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)
-
+ - The resulted timetables are exported into HTML, XML and CSV
+ formats
- - Each constraint has a weight percentage, from 0.0% to 100.0%
- (but some special constraints are allowed to have only 100% weight percentage)
-
+ - 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)
- - Limits for the algorithm (all these limits can be increased on demand,
- as a custom version, because this would require a bit more memory):
+
- Each constraint has a weight percentage, from 0.0% to 100.0%
+ (but some special constraints are allowed to have only 100% weight
+ percentage)
+ - Limits for the algorithm (all these limits can be increased on
+ demand, as a custom version, because this would require a bit more
+ memory):
+
+ - Maximum total number of hours (periods) per day: 60
+ - Maximum number of working days per week: 35
+ - Maximum total number of teachers: 6000
+ - Maximum total number of sets of students: 30000
+ - Maximum total number of subjects: 6000
+ - Virtually unlimited number of activity tags
+ - Maximum number of activities: 30000
+ - Maximum number of rooms: 6000
+ - Maximum number of buildings: 6000
+ - 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)
+ - Virtually unlimited number of time constraints
+ - Virtually unlimited number of space constraints
+
+
+ - A large and flexible palette of time constraints:
+
+ - Break periods
+ - For teacher(s):
+
+ - 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
+
+ - For students (sets):
- - Maximum total number of hours (periods) per day: 60
-
- - Maximum number of working days per week: 35
-
- - Maximum total number of teachers: 6000
-
- - Maximum total number of sets of students: 30000
-
- - Maximum total number of subjects: 6000
-
- - Virtually unlimited number of activity tags
-
- - Maximum number of activities: 30000
-
- - Maximum number of rooms: 6000
-
- - Maximum number of buildings: 6000
-
- - 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)
-
- - Virtually unlimited number of time constraints
-
- - Virtually unlimited number of space constraints
+ - 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
+
+ - For an activity or a set of activities/subactivities:
+
+ - 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
+
+
+
+ - A large and flexible palette of space constraints:
+
+ - Room not available periods
+ - For teacher(s):
+
+ - Home room(s)
+ - Max building changes per day/week
+ - Min gaps between building changes
-
-
-
- - A large and flexible
- palette of time constraints:
-
-
- - Break periods
-
-
- - For teacher(s):
-
- -
- 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
-
-
-
+
- - For students (sets):
-
- -
- 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
-
-
-
-
- - For an activity or a set of activities/subactivities:
-
- -
- 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
-
-
-
+ - For students (sets):
+
+ - Home room(s)
+ - Max building changes per day/week
+ - Min gaps between building changes
-
-
-
- - A large and flexible
- palette of space constraints:
-
-
- - Room not available periods
-
-
- - For teacher(s):
-
- -
- Home room(s)
-
- -
- Max building changes per day/week
-
- -
- Min gaps between building changes
-
-
-
-
- - For students (sets):
-
- -
- Home room(s)
-
- -
- Max building changes per day/week
-
- -
- Min gaps between building changes
-
-
-
-
- - Preferred room(s):
-
- -
- For a subject
-
- -
- For an activity tag
-
- -
- For a subject and an activity tag
-
- -
- Individually for a (sub)activity
-
-
-
-
- - For a set of activities:
-
- - Occupy a maximum number of different rooms
-
-
-
+
+ - Preferred room(s):
+
+ - For a subject
+ - For an activity tag
+ - For a subject and an activity tag
+ - Individually for a (sub)activity
+
-
+ - For a set of activities:
+
+ - Occupy a maximum number of different rooms
+
+
+
+
I have not used it myself, as I am not involved in time table