FET - Free Timetabling Software 5.10.1

FET - Free Timetabling Software 5.10.1 is considered as a free, open and useful source GNU/GPL software that helps you schedule timetable of school automatically, using a fast and efficient algorithm.

Localized to English, Arabic, Catalan, German, Greek, Spanish, French, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Lithuanian, Macedonian, Malay, Dutch, Polish, Romanian, and Turkish. Fully automatic generation algorithm, allowing also semi-automatic or manual allocation. Powerful flexible modular xml format for the input file, allowing editing with an xml editor or by hand. The resulted timetables are exported into xml and html formats. Very flexible students structure, organized into sets: years, groups and subgroups.

FET allows overlapping years and groups and non-overlapping subgroups. A complete and flexible palette of time and space constraints: Students early max beginnings at second hour; Min number of days between activities; Activity preferred time; Break; Students / teachers max (min) hours daily; Students / teachers not available; Teacher/s max days per week; Activities same starting hour, not overlapping; Activity(ies) ends students day; Teachers/ students max gaps per day / week; Room not available; Activity / subject (tag) preferred room(s); Control building changes for students and teachers (min gaps between building changes, max building changes per day / week).

Major Features:

1. FET is free software (open source). You can freely use, copy, modify and re-distribute it, as GNU/GPL permits (but please consider a donation)
2. Localized to en_GB (English), ar (Arabic), ca (Catalan), de (German), el (Greek), es (Spanish), fa (Persian), fr (French), hu (Hungarian), id (Indonesian), it (Italian), lt (Lithuanian), mk (Macedonian), ms (Malay), nl (Dutch), pl (Polish), ro (Romanian), ru (Russian) and tr (Turkish) (maybe incompletely)
3. Fully automatic generation algorithm, allowing also semi-automatic or manual allocation
4. Platform independent implementation, allowing running on GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac and any system that Qt supports
5. Powerful flexible modular xml format for the input file, allowing editing with an xml editor or by hand (besides FET)
6. Possibility to view the currently generated timetable without stopping the ongoing simulation (as html on hard disk)
7. The resulted timetables are exported into xml and html formats
8. Very flexible students (pupils) 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)
9. Each constraint has a weight percentage, from 0.0% to 100.0% (some special constraints can have only 100% weight percentage possible)
10. Maximum total number of hours (periods) per day: 60 (can be increased, but until now nobody suggested a larger value)
11. Maximum number of working days per week: 28 (can be increased, but until now nobody suggested a larger value)
12. Maximum total number of teachers: 700 (can be increased, but until now nobody suggested a larger value)
13. Maximum total number of sets of students: 15000 (can be increased, but until now nobody suggested a larger value)
14. Maximum total number of subjects: 1000 (can be increased, but until now nobody suggested a larger value)
15. Virtually unlimited number of subject tags
16. Maximum number of activities: 5000 (can be increased, but until now nobody suggested a larger value)
17. Maximum number of rooms: 1000 (can be increased, but until now nobody suggested a larger value)
18. Maximum number of buildings: 100 (can be increased, but until now nobody suggested a larger value)
19. Adjustable duration for each activity (each activity can have duration of 1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours or more)
20. Possibility of adding multiple teachers and students sets for each activity. That is, each activity can have specified any number of students subgroups (sets) and any number of teachers (it is possible to have no teacher or no students set for an activity, also)
21. Maximum number of time constraints: 10000 (can be increased, but until now nobody suggested a larger value)
22. Maximum number of space constraints: 10000 (can be increased, but until now nobody suggested a larger value)
23. A large and flexible palette of time constraints:
    • Constraint basic compulsory time
    • Constraint students (set) early max beginnings at second hour
    • Constraint students (set) max gaps per week
    • Constraint min n days between activities (to allow balancing the activities in a week)
    • Constraint activity preferred time (to specify for an activity a preferred day, hour or both)
    • Constraint activity preferred times
    • Constraint activities preferred times (you can specify a set of activities by teacher, subject, subject tag or students and a set of preferred or allowed periods).
    • Constraint break
    • Constraint students (set) max (min) hours daily
    • Constraint teacher(s) max (min) hours daily
    • Constraint students set not available
    • Constraint teacher max days per week
    • Constraint teacher not available
    • Constraint teachers max gaps per week
    • Constraint activities same starting hour
    • Constraint activities same starting time
    • Constraint activities not overlapping
    • Constraint min gaps between activities
    • Constraint 2 activities consecutive
    • Constraint 2 activities grouped
    • Constraint 2 activities ordered
    • Constraint activity(ies) ends students day
    • Constraint teachers max gaps per day
    • Constraint teacher(s) max hours continuously
    • Constraint students (set) max hours continuously
    • Constraint teacher(s) hourly interval max days per week
    • Constraint students (set) hourly interval max days per week
24. A large and flexible palette of space constraints:
    • Constraint basic compulsory space
    • Constraint room not available
    • Constraint activity preferred room(s)
    • Constraint subject preferred room(s)
    • Constraint subject subject tag preferred room(s)
    • Constraints to control building changes for students and teachers (min gaps between building changes, max building changes per day, max building changes per week)

Enhancements:

• Includes speed improvement if user has constraints activities same starting time and adds possibility to print activities with same starting time in the html timetables
• Speed improvement if user has constraints activities same starting time. Idea and partial code by Volker Dirr.
  
• Added possibility to print activities with same starting time in the html timetables (suggested on the forum, implemented by Volker Dirr).
  
• Minor interface improments under GNU/Linux. The combo boxes are now smaller.
  
• Modified the main menu arrangement of constraints
  
• Crash bug fix (very rare, if user pressed cancel immediately after hitting generation start in timetable generate dialog).
  
• Added another sample file