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All good. I like seeing complex problems and trying to think about creative ways to solve them. 

Thanks Yush. I see your timetable and have somewhat of an understanding (I think) of it.

Question: is the number of "break times" for each student or each group of students ("Year 3" for example) known before generation? Put differently, is there always the same number of gaps in each FET run for a particular year group?

If so, perhaps create a Break activity "bucket" that can only go in the slots around lunch. I'm thinking if FET has to slot this into the schedule too, it might push your current activities out of those slots and give you the results you desire.

Does that kind of make sense? Again, it probably depends on the input data you have available pre-FET.

Hi Yush,

Is this in regular or block mode? We might be doing something similar if I am understanding you correctly. Can you share  a .fet file or even a more detailed version of your first post with the timings or class lengths for each subject?

Happy to try and help a fellow FET user if possible.

Ed

Email sent. Thanks! I am from the UK so I am always thinking in terms of time differences now I live in Dallas haha.

Ed

Thanks! I will send the .fet file over today with some more details on which classes/groups/sections I am having issues with. Let me make sure I send one that solves 

Appreciate your help.
Ed

Hi Liviu,

Thanks for the speedy response. Is there a way to share my .FET file with you directly?

Ed

Hi all,

First time posting so thank you in advance for your assistance and awesome software.

I reached out to Darren McDonald for suggestions on a solution to this problem and he said posting here might yield a solve.

Here is the situation: using FET in block mode for A/B day scheduling.

Some classes, lets say math and French for example, meet on both A and B days, while others (lets say science) meet only on A OR B days.

For the classes that meet every day, some like math have pre-determined groups/sections which is easy to put in FET with an A-Day, B-Day activity tag. However, the sections for French are not pre-determined, so FET can place students in any of the sections that meet on an A-day and any of the sections that meet on a B-day. Put differently, I can end up with different groupings on A-days and B-days for French which isn't ideal for  teaching.

Is there a way, or can a constraint be created, so that FET still determines the sections (to keep flexibility) on the A-day, but then creates the same sections on the B-day?

Happy to share file or visual representation of this if that would help?

Again, thank you in advance for your thoughts and for the amazing software.

Ed