I have a 9th grade class which I don't know how to schedule as the timetable does not build. I am not an expert in FET Timetable, but have used it for quite basic timetables in the past. I also don't know if I'm setting it up correctly. I have the following information. I also don't use subgroups and not sure how to set it up.
We have 4 home classes - we thought those 4 classes can go together to English and Maths, so that is pretty easy - as all students have english and maths. S0 9Blue will go to English as a class and to maths as a class and 9Red will do the same (at different times) etc.
We have 39 periods a week.
I know how many students chose each of the other subjects
English is 69 students - 5 periods per week in a class
English is 69 students - 4 periods per week in a class and 2 periods together the entire grade
Two foreign languages are split also 29/40 students - 5 periods per week
They also have assembly and assessment where the entire grade will be together during those 3 periods.
Those are quite straight forward. The problem comes in with the following, which all has 4 periods per week and they choose 5 subjects. I've calculated and out of the 69 students there are 40 unique subject choices.
Physics: 60 (split into 4 groups) -
Chemistry: 59 (4 groups)
Accounting: 25 (1 group)
Design: 19 (1 group)
Biology: 45 (2 groups)
Computer Science: 47 (2 groups)
Economics: 26 (2 groups)
Business: 51 (2 groups)
Geography: 13 (1 group)
One subject is taught by one teacher only and students will have no free/off periods.
I would like to split the groups into as evenly as possible, i.e. Biology has 45 students, so 22 and 23 would be ideal.
Is there any way that I can set up FET to assist with this? The way I am doing it is not working. What I do is I would, for example,
create a subject called Physics/Chemistry/Biology/Computer Science and then add the 4 teachers to it and all the 4 grade 9 classes to the activity with 4 periods per week.
I understand why the timetable doesn't build (there are too many periods that they go together during a week so that maths, for example is more periods than what is free on their open periods. I hope that makes sense.
I am really desperate for a solution and think I've read before that sub groups can possibly solve the problem, but I don't know how to set it up.
I've added some information as I've read about MAPR and BP and still confused about which one to try.
Any detailed help will be greatly appreciated.
PS: Just come across student election tool, so will look at that too and give feedback.
Too less information.
We also need to know for example if "Accounting" and "Design" can be at the same time (so if they don't share students). We nned to know this for all subject combinations. SO in fact it is better if you describe
how students can vote the subjects.
If the students can nearly choose randomly the subjects, then it is maybe better to use FET BR or StElTo.
see https://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/forum/index.php?board=40.0
if you have only a few categories, then you might just use the automatic split feature of FET.
see https://www.timetabling.de/manual/FET-manual.en.html#id_12
Hi Volker,
Thanks for your reply. I spent some time and tried out StElTo and I think it solved my problem. I need to look a bit deeper, but it has structured all my students into groups based on minimum amounts and now I can use those groups in FET. Will still need to do a couple of manual things, but it really helped a lot!
Thank you so much.