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Free Timetabling Software - nice free software
7th July 2012
-

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 +40,142 @@ 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 @@ -322,7 +221,13 @@ section.

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