Volker you are perfectly right, I forgot room constraints...
Yesterday night I just wrote down some of the ideas I was thinking in the last days, so I'm sure they are confusing... sorry about this.
I want to make clear that I'm not saying that FET is not good, actually it is very good ! I also don't want to create a timetable from scratch.
Yesterday was the official school opening day in my city. Teachers had the timetable wednesday and 3 of them (out of 47) voiced for problems. One was able to exchange periods with another teacher, the second teacher request was denied, but the third, actually has big reasons to voice... Her timetable is not good and needs to be changed. He also agree to add another gap hour... believe me, it is very complex to do changes for this teacher. I found one that needs 6 different swaps to just move one of her lessons...
So I'd like to have a tool that can help me to test changes and check constraints without blocking my actions. Is TiTiTo able to do this? It seems it is. It also does a lot of other things that are probably useful in Germany and other countries but not in Italy, due to different staffing rules for teachers.
FET is great, but as already said in this thread and as answer to a question from me in another, if the timetable is "difficult", it is not easy to unlock some periods/students/teachers and get a *different* timetable and generating a new timetable from scratch means that it all teacher will have different timetables, also radically different (also worst)... a risk they don't want to have.
Yesterday night I just wrote down some of the ideas I was thinking in the last days, so I'm sure they are confusing... sorry about this.
I want to make clear that I'm not saying that FET is not good, actually it is very good ! I also don't want to create a timetable from scratch.
Yesterday was the official school opening day in my city. Teachers had the timetable wednesday and 3 of them (out of 47) voiced for problems. One was able to exchange periods with another teacher, the second teacher request was denied, but the third, actually has big reasons to voice... Her timetable is not good and needs to be changed. He also agree to add another gap hour... believe me, it is very complex to do changes for this teacher. I found one that needs 6 different swaps to just move one of her lessons...
So I'd like to have a tool that can help me to test changes and check constraints without blocking my actions. Is TiTiTo able to do this? It seems it is. It also does a lot of other things that are probably useful in Germany and other countries but not in Italy, due to different staffing rules for teachers.
FET is great, but as already said in this thread and as answer to a question from me in another, if the timetable is "difficult", it is not easy to unlock some periods/students/teachers and get a *different* timetable and generating a new timetable from scratch means that it all teacher will have different timetables, also radically different (also worst)... a risk they don't want to have.