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I had done all you suggested before you said it. But I still couldn't generate a timetable beyond a certain number of student FET hours (checked from the statistics). My school does 9 periods a day of 40 minutes each. So I instead try 12 periods a day with 30 minutes each and it worked for me.

In the 9-period approach, the system couldn't schedule two mutually exclusive activities at once. Maybe if students who do literature and additional mathematics are mutually exclusive, normally the system can schedule simultaneous activities involving these two subjects in the same time slot.

But my problems went away when I instead divided the school day into 12 periods.

I found the root of my error. For future reference, mine was because the number of FET hours for the day was an odd number (9). Once I changed it to 12 or 6, everything worked as normal.

Thank you all very much.

I considered my options and went with using the official mode. I am out of time, and I don't know how to use FET well (yet).

Where might I find the example file? I am on Mac and I already read the help on terms mode. I just don't understand it. I also already read the discussion link.

Can you point me to a working terms mode FET file that works so I can look at it and do mine?

Thank you so much.

Many thanks for you swift reply.

I thought I did that. For example, IGCSE 1 year has the IGCSE 1 Science and IGCSE 1 Humanities. Under these, I have subgroups which represent the various combinations each student is doing. Then I create a group for each subject and put the subgroups in there.

Maybe I attached the wrong file. Will take a look.

Hi,

My school runs extra tuition after school (1 hour) from Monday to Thursday. That sums to 4 FET hours in a week. Some classes (years in FET language) have subject combinations and some don't. Student sets can do up to 9 subjects, which means a normal 1-week timetable won't help. We have 9 classes in total. I would like to create a 3-week timetable that alternates for the whole term (10 weeks). That way, all student sets can get all their subjects in those three weeks (12 hours).

From what I read, I am supposed to use FET term planning for that but I don't know how.
 
Any help please?

Hi,
Many thanks for wonderful software.

We have 9 periods a day from Monday to Friday. Some classes have subject combinations, and some don't. There is a class (IGCSE 1) which I am having trouble with. That class has a choice of 11 subjects but the greatest one can choose is 9. When I input activities that make the total duration of that class greater than than 45 (total number of periods for the week), it doesn't create a timetable. I am thinking it should work because some student sets (subgroups) don't share some subjects so those ones should be able to do it simultaneously.

Your help is greatly appreciated. Thank you.