Hello Liviu,
Congratulations on your wonderful software. As we are trying for the first year to use FET to produce our school timetable, we are experiencing certain problems and cannot easily find solutions. I therefore submit them to you in the hope that you may have simple suggestions that will help.
We have a rather complex situation at our high school. The five years of high school are divided into two cycles that have an overlap of five minutes between the 4th and 5th periods. We have teachers that give classes in both cycles, so they cannot teach period 4 in cycle 2 followed by period 5 in cycle 1 (they would be late). How can this be indicated as a constraint?
We also have part-time teachers that should not have courses spread out over the whole week.
Attached is a document that explains the arrangement of courses that we have used until now. Is this reproduceable with FET? The scenario wished for is an even distribution between morning and afternoon periods of each subject.
After FET produced a timetable that accounted for the constraints given, we found the need to move certain periods to improve or correct certain situations. How can this be done easily, without having to redo the whole timetable manually to take care of the cascade of changes?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
John Carey
Collège Notre-Dame
Montréal, Canada
Congratulations on your wonderful software. As we are trying for the first year to use FET to produce our school timetable, we are experiencing certain problems and cannot easily find solutions. I therefore submit them to you in the hope that you may have simple suggestions that will help.
We have a rather complex situation at our high school. The five years of high school are divided into two cycles that have an overlap of five minutes between the 4th and 5th periods. We have teachers that give classes in both cycles, so they cannot teach period 4 in cycle 2 followed by period 5 in cycle 1 (they would be late). How can this be indicated as a constraint?
We also have part-time teachers that should not have courses spread out over the whole week.
Attached is a document that explains the arrangement of courses that we have used until now. Is this reproduceable with FET? The scenario wished for is an even distribution between morning and afternoon periods of each subject.
After FET produced a timetable that accounted for the constraints given, we found the need to move certain periods to improve or correct certain situations. How can this be done easily, without having to redo the whole timetable manually to take care of the cascade of changes?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
John Carey
Collège Notre-Dame
Montréal, Canada