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Free Timetabling Software - nice free software

7th July 2012

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 -both teachers and students. It is available both for -Linux, MacOSX and -Windows.

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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
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) -
Fully automatic generation algorithm, allowing also - semi-automatic or manual allocation
Platform independent implementation, allowing running on - GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac and any system that Qt supports
Flexible modular XML format for the input file, allowing editing - with an XML editor or by hand (besides FET interface)
Import/export from CSV format
The resulted timetables are exported into HTML, XML and CSV - formats
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)
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): -
  - 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
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- For students (sets): -
  - Home room(s)
  - Max building changes per day/week
  - Min gaps between building changes
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- Preferred room(s): -
  - 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: -
  - 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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