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Thank you, Liviu

I will investigate further and report back with the outcome.

Forgive my ignorance with this as I have just discovered this software today and begun to look at it.

I work in an engineering department at a further/higher education college. We have roughly 30 members of staff with various specialisms and teach several hundred students.

My question is whether we can make this software work for us, as we normally timetable by hand, at great mental expense! We deliver certain units that several members of staff could teach. For example, Analogue Electronics 1, there will be 4 members of staff that have the knowledge/experience to deliver this unit.

If I specify all the student pathways, including their groupings, with all the units that they need to be enrolled on as 'subjects', as well as the various units that lecturers are able to deliver as 'qualified subjects', will FET be able to automatically place lecturers on the units by determining who is available?

Or, do staff have to be attributed to 'subjects' manually?

We generally have 2 lecturers deliver each unit for simpler verification purposes but we may need a different number depending on student numbers or there may be room/staff clashes. This year we have had 1 member of staff teach around 90% of the more mathematical engineering units, as we had a shortage of staff and these were more difficult units to staff, than less mathematical units.

I hope this makes some sense.

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