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WOW!  Thanks for the super quick reply!

I see what you mean.  We don't actually need FET to select teachers.  We do that.  It's more of a management thing.  It's not that we need FET to come up with the timetable itself.  We're looking for something to manage and see who's doing what, when and manage substitutions.  I hope I'm being clear enough?  I realise that FET's power is in being able to create the timetable itself and we woudn't be using its power.  So even though FET is clearly an amazing tool.  It probably isn't the tool for our job.

Thanks anyway for the response.  Very much appreciated!

Hello,

First of all, congrats on an incredible feat of programming.  FET is very impressive.  My hat goes off to you!

I have a question regarding our use case.  I've had a quick look at FET and we are wondering if there's a way to configure and use it for our purposes.

• We run a number of courses in parallel.  Let's say 3 for this example.  And generally have 3 or 4 tutors available for teaching
• Mostly, a tutor will teach the same group of students in the same room all day every day for a number of weeks in a row.  Anything from 2 to 40 weeks
• A substitute tutor may be needed now and again to provide cover for annual leave, sick leave etc
• Sometimes a different tutor may come in for half a day to a full day once or twice a week for a course

These are generally the conditions.  We need a system to show who's teaching what, where, when and something to help manage substitute teacher cover etc.  We tried using a spreadsheet but, as you know, this got very complicated very quickly.

Is FET suitable for our needs?  If so, how should we go about configuring it.  I couldn't quite see how to do the above but maybe I'm not familiar enough with it.

Thanks in advance!