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FET is free software, licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License version 3 or later. You can freely use, copy, modify and redistribute it
Localized to ar (Arabic), bg (Bulgarian), ca (Catalan), cs (Czech), da (Danish), de (German), el (Greek), en_GB (British English), en_US (US English, default), es (Spanish), eu (Basque), fa (Persian), fr (French), gl (Galician), he (Hebrew), hu (Hungarian), id (Indonesian), it (Italian), ja (Japanese), lt (Lithuanian), mk (Macedonian), ms (Malay), nl (Dutch), pl (Polish), pt_BR (Brazilian Portuguese), ro (Romanian), ru (Russian), si (Sinhala), sk (Slovak), sq (Albanian), sr (Serbian), tr (Turkish), uk (Ukrainian), uz (Uzbek), vi (Vietnamese), zh_CN (Chinese Simplified) and zh_TW (Chinese Traditional) (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:
Maximum number of working days per week: 1000
Maximum number of hours per day: 1440
Virtually unlimited number of teachers
Maximum number of subgroups of students: 30000
Virtually unlimited number of subjects
Virtually unlimited number of activity tags
Maximum number of activities: 500,000
Maximum number of rooms: 30,000
Maximum number of buildings: 30,000
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
Max span per day
Min hours daily
Max hours daily/continuously with an activity tag
Min hours daily with an activity tag
Min gaps between an ordered pair of activity tags
Respect working in an hourly interval a max number of days per week
Min resting hours
For students (sets):
Not available periods
Max days per week
Begins early (specify max allowed beginnings at second hour)
Max gaps per day/week
Max hours daily/continuously
Max span per day
Min hours daily
Max hours daily/continuously with an activity tag
Min hours daily with an activity tag
Min gaps between an ordered pair of activity tags
Respect working in an hourly interval a max number of days per week
Min resting hours
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/min time slots from selection (two complex and flexible constraints, useful in many situations)
Consecutive, ordered (and ordered if same day), grouped (for 2 or 3 (sub)activities)
Not overlapping (also for activity tags)
Max/min 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 room/building changes per day/week
Min gaps between room/building changes
For students (sets):
Home room(s)
Max room/building changes per day/week
Min gaps between room/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:
Have the same room if they are consecutive
Occupy a maximum number of different rooms