FET is an open source timetabling application for schools, high-schools and some universities.
Here are some key features of “FET”:
· 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)
· Localized to English, French, Catalan, Romanian, Malay, Polish, Turkish, Dutch, German, Hungarian and Macedonian (maybe incompletely)
· Fully automatic generation algorithm, allowing also semi-automatic or manual allocation
· Platform independent implementation, allowing running on GNU/Linux, Windows and any system that Qt supports
· Powerful flexible modular xml format for the input file, allowing editing with an xml editor or by hand (besides FET)
· Possibility to view the currently generated timetable without stopping the ongoing simulation
· The resulted timetables are exported into xml and html formats
· Very flexible students (pupils) structure, in years, groups and subgroups. FET allows overlapping years and groups and non-overlapping subgroups
· Possibility to consider a weight (percentage) for each constraint
· Maximum total number of hours (periods) per day: 30
· Maximum number of working days per week: 14
· Maximum total number of teachers: 700
· Maximum total number of subgroups (sets) of students: 5000
· Maximum total number of subjects: 1000
· Virtually unlimited number of subject tags
· Maximum number of activities: 2000 (you can compile or ask the author a version with more activities allowed)
· Maximum number of rooms: 300
· Maximum number of buildings: 100
· Maximum number of equipments: 300
· Adjustable duration for each activity (each activity can have duration of 1 hour, 2 hours, 3 hours or more)
· Possibility of adding multiple teachers and students sets for each activity. That is, each activity can have specified at most 400 students subgroups (sets) and 100 teachers
· Maximum number of time constraints: 3000
· Maximum number of space constraints: 3000
A large and flexible palette of time constraints:
· 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 activities same starting hour
· Constraint activities same starting time
· Constraint activities not overlapping
· Constraint activity preferred time (to specify for an activity a preferred day, hour or both)
· Constraint activity preferred times
· Constraint basic compulsory time
· Constraint break
· Constraint min n days between activities (to allow balancing the activities in a week)
· Constraint students early (to make the students begin as early as possible the activities)
· Constraint students set early (to make the students set begin as early as possible the activities)
· Constraint students no gaps
· Constraint students set no gaps
· Constraint students (set) max hours daily
· Constraint teacher(s) max hours daily
· Constraint students set not available
· Constraint teacher max days per week
· Constraint teacher not available
· Constraint teachers max gaps per week
A large and flexible palette of space constraints:
· Constraint activity preferred room
· Constraint activity preferred rooms
· Constraint basic compulsory space
· Constraint room not available
· Constraint subject preferred room
· Constraint subject preferred rooms
Requirements:
· Qt >= 4.3.0