I'm trying to generate an Exam schedule, to avoid exam scheduling clashes, ie when a student is programmed for 2 exams at the same time.
I detail some of my constraints below but what I'm struggling with is to find the right Year/Group/subgroup structure and how to use tag effectively.
Please help me clarify that. I will then be able to generate the necessary csv files to be imported in fet.
General constraints
- We have 2,200 students
- Students can taken any of the 300+ subjects (eg. MATH_102, BIO_307). I call them subject cohorts.
- Students usually have a common set of subjects (when pursuing same degree and concentration) but a few hundreds have a very specific set of subjects taken from the entire subject offer.
- A subjet cohort can have 3 to 300+ students. They are divided in subject sections of 30 to 50 students (eg. MATH_102_s1, MATH_102_s2 ... MATH_102_s7).
- Subject sections can be taught independently by different teachers at different times
- Professors are organized by College and Department
Exam constraints
- For teaching purposed we accept up to 50 students in a room but for Exam purpose the rooms capacities are reduced by 30%. A 50 seats room becomes a 35 seats exam room.
- All Subject sections of the same subject cohorts should have exam at the same time.
- All exam have a fixed duration of 2 hours.
- We have 5 consecutive days to place all exams.
- Every students should have a "pause" of at least 1 hour between his exams.
- Most students are in 5 or less subjects cohort but this can go up to 8 exceptionally. Meaning at most a student will seat for 8 exams, on per subject cohort.
- For proctoring, preference should be give to a professor of the same department, then of the same college if possible.
Where I am.
I've been playing with simple examples to understand the year/group/subgroup. I can make sens of it for colleges... eg with 4A, 4B, 4A-Bio, 4B-Bio, 4A-latin 4B-latin ect... but in my case I feel each student is his own subgroup, and then I need to deal with many group overlap, since I see a group a subject section or subject cohort
I am thinking of using the following structure:
Subject cohort / Subject section / Student ID
Subject section / Student ID (no subgroups). I have overlap. A student ID is obviously in several Subject section. Having it as a subgroup is not possible.
This would be generated by myself and would total less than 10000 lines. Would that be ok for FET ? Am I on the right track?
I detail some of my constraints below but what I'm struggling with is to find the right Year/Group/subgroup structure and how to use tag effectively.
Please help me clarify that. I will then be able to generate the necessary csv files to be imported in fet.
General constraints
- We have 2,200 students
- Students can taken any of the 300+ subjects (eg. MATH_102, BIO_307). I call them subject cohorts.
- Students usually have a common set of subjects (when pursuing same degree and concentration) but a few hundreds have a very specific set of subjects taken from the entire subject offer.
- A subjet cohort can have 3 to 300+ students. They are divided in subject sections of 30 to 50 students (eg. MATH_102_s1, MATH_102_s2 ... MATH_102_s7).
- Subject sections can be taught independently by different teachers at different times
- Professors are organized by College and Department
Exam constraints
- For teaching purposed we accept up to 50 students in a room but for Exam purpose the rooms capacities are reduced by 30%. A 50 seats room becomes a 35 seats exam room.
- All Subject sections of the same subject cohorts should have exam at the same time.
- All exam have a fixed duration of 2 hours.
- We have 5 consecutive days to place all exams.
- Every students should have a "pause" of at least 1 hour between his exams.
- Most students are in 5 or less subjects cohort but this can go up to 8 exceptionally. Meaning at most a student will seat for 8 exams, on per subject cohort.
- For proctoring, preference should be give to a professor of the same department, then of the same college if possible.
Where I am.
I've been playing with simple examples to understand the year/group/subgroup. I can make sens of it for colleges... eg with 4A, 4B, 4A-Bio, 4B-Bio, 4A-latin 4B-latin ect... but in my case I feel each student is his own subgroup, and then I need to deal with many group overlap, since I see a group a subject section or subject cohort
I am thinking of using the following structure:
Subject section / Student ID (no subgroups). I have overlap. A student ID is obviously in several Subject section. Having it as a subgroup is not possible.
This would be generated by myself and would total less than 10000 lines. Would that be ok for FET ? Am I on the right track?
we also have strong budgetary constraints as you can imagine from our remote place. I trying to help, stepping out of my 'official' duties but time has passed and I have to learn how to use FET again. I've been pickup it back up for a few days. I'll ask some questions about overlapping groups in another thread. What I want to say here is that It is very good and very reassuring to see this mature forum, rolling through the years. That is why SHOUTOUT a big THANK YOU to All ! THANK YOU Liviu Lalescu ! THANK YOU for this piece of software shared to the world. Healthy minds live in healthy bodies, healthy software live in healthy minds. FET is like a FluTE, playing a joyfull melody which resonates across the mountains and travels with the waves across the oceans of the World !