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Nice to know someone is working on this

One thing I noticed whiel I am doing a rimetable:

I generated it with certain rooming restrictions eg All science lessons in 1 of 5 rooms etc . I always do rooms alst as the rooming just kills the timetable. Now I am happy with the timetable I am redoing the rooms. I fix the time and unfix the rooms of course.

Trouble is I now add say my name in a room - I am a scienectaecher -set at 100% and FET ignores it! It sticks to the random generation above. So I have to delet that condition for the home room to be noticed. Surely this condistion should be respected?

Hi I use FET for a quite a large international school - 900 - and firstly thanks for developing it! It takes about an hour to solve our timetable as lots of restrictions and problems but it works! I would never be able to do it on a spreadsheet

Issue is I am always having to make changes as teachers leave, swap etc. I of course have the timetable 'fixed' but it is quite laborious to make changes to rooms etc.

What it really needs now is a front end any one can use for room changes/teacher changes for a fixed timetable. I have plenty of programming experience (from a  long time ago though) so using FET no issue for me. But even the ICT teachers can't understand it easily.

The other major issues we face is cover - would be fantastic to have a cover generator. That takes up a lot of time practically as teachers are off sick and the time taken to check their timetable and find others free is a job that would be nice at a click of a button. I know these are "nice to haves" but I bet a lot of FET users have the same practical issues day to day.