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[@Liviu Lalescu]

@Liviu Lalescu I'm going to bump my topic again, because once again I'm trying to do my timetable and whatever I do I'm getting conflicts left right and centre. After years of this, I still am completely confused as to how I'm supposed to set it up.

Last year I re-downloaded your files off this thread and adjusted them, but I've tried to do the same again this year and I really have no idea what's going wrong. Here is all the information I have. If you could explain to me how I set this up, I'd be most grateful. I just want to be able to do it myself!

I'm doing the same as I do every year. I have one building. I've put 3 spaces in this time... I have 2 small classrooms that hold maximum 8 people in each, and a patio area set up for infant classes that fits about 5-6 students max.

My hours of work are from 15:30h to 20:30h.

If there are too many conflicts of hours for just me to do classes, then my daughter can do infant classes only on the patio area. However if she's doing infant classes, I can't, because there is only one infant area. She can only do classes the first hour, from 15:30h to 16:30h.

I have set the class groups as 'years'. There are the following groups:

Infant 1 (3 years old)
Infant 2 (4 and 5 years old)
Primary 1/2
Primary 3 (3 and 4 are split in two, as there are a lot of students)
Primary 4
Primary 5/6
ESO 1
ESO 2
British Curriculum
Adult 1
Adult 2 (this group will only be once a week)
Adult 3 (this group will only be once a week)

EVERYONE is learning English. Most as a second language, apart fro the British Curriculum group. Adults usually come at the end of the day in the last hour at 19:30h. This is because they have a tendency to cancel and at least I get to go home early if they do.

Each student is set as a 'group' under the years.

Some students have 1 hour a week, some have 2. How can I set that?

Each student has hours that they can't come. I have inputed these restrictions for each individual student, depending on what their parents have told me. Any that have no restricitons have no other activities, so they can come whenever.

Attached is my file.

Thanks in advance for any help!!!

Many thanks! I have no idea what you've done, and I really need to work it out so I can adjust it as and when needed!

How did you set people to only have 1 day a week? There are others that only have 1 day a week and I could do that for all. It may make the timetable easier to generate...

EDIT: It still seems to be putting people at times they can't come. I've found about 3 or 4 students allocated to times they can't come. Maybe I should just do it manually, as I always have! This is probably why I gave up last time. 5 years later and I'm still trying to find an easier way of doing this. 

Ok. Here is a sample of a timetable in 'horario.pdf'. This is one from last year. As you can see, some children come once a week, some twice. The colours represent the levels. A child can come in any class, as long as it's the same colour (level). so if there are 4 infant classes, it doesn't really matter whether the groups are the same each class, as long as the level is.

Also attached is my fet file. Kirsty.fet. This has this year's students so far. Every time I run a timetable at the moment, it puts the classes consecutively on the same day, which I can't have. Even though I have unticked the 'consecutive' box, and selected that there is at least a day between classes. I don't know why it won't do it. Students need to come on different days. They can be consecutive days, but preferably 2 days apart if possible.

I obviously didn't get it in 2013, because I'm still trying now!  I must have given up. I was wondering why I already had a forum username when I went to register.

I'm finding it all really confusing. I have added all the students individually as subgroups, but it won't create the timetable and I really don't understand why.

Hi. I have just downloaded FET in order to try and organise my classes for this year and I'm having trouble working out how I would enter the data for my circumstances. I have read through the documentation but my circumstances are a little different so I can't get my head around it. I shall explain:

I have a private English academy. I am only organising my own classes, therefore there is only one institution/building, one classroom, one subject and one teacher. The thing I have to organise is the different students of differing levels into the timetable. The constraints are when each child can come, due to other activities.

For example, I have students in the following levels : Infantil, Primary 1&1, Primary 3&4, Primary 5&6, ESO, Adult Beginner and Adult Intermediate.

In each of these levels I have some students.

For example, in the infantil group I may have Maria, Juan, Aday, Manuel, Sara, Judith, Carlota, Iker and Fran.

Maria can only come on tuesdays and thursdays afer 5pm.
Juan can come only on Monday Wednesday and Friday.
Aday can only come before 5pm
Sara can come on Monday and Friday before 5pm

etc...

I only want a maximum or 8 children in a group, and ech group comes twice a week - so for the infantil level, this will result in 2 sets of 2 classes.

I need the program to work out the best times for each level to come for 2 sessions each week that will be suitable for all the students.

I have tried setting up the students as 'subgroups' with the constraints for each student, and the levels as 'groups' but it isn't working.

Can anyone give me an idea how I can set it up so that the students are allocated to their group and timetabled so that it fits in with everybody's time constraints?

Many thanks in advance!

Kirsty

There are no other activiites. I don't want to do anything complicated, just organise the children into classes. Maximum 4 to a class, but specify any time constraints each student has so they are put in the best group at the best time slot.

If it helps, here is my current timetable. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AoLG45BEwpDCdGxLN0tlc3JjNnl6aGlGVVhENDd3cFE&single=true&gid=6&output=html

It's not correct, as parents have been coming to me saying 'My child has swimming at that time', 'I want both my children to come in the same class, or adjacent classes', etc etc.

I need to have the students arranged into the correct ability group and specify times they CAN'T do, so that the program comes up with the best fit for everyone.

There is only one subject - English. Only one activity - English. Only one teacher - Me. Only one space - My classroom.

I know that maybe I should be inputting the students' names as subgroups maybe...

I'm reading the manual right now, and have been all morning. I just can't figure out how I should put in this data to make it work for the task. It's only a one-off timetable I need, as it'll be the same each week.

Thanks for helping

Hi there,

I am a teacher who has one classroom and I do small groups of private classes in English. So, basically there's just me as a teacher and one classroom, with one subject  - but what I need to organise are the students so that they are arranged in the correct ability group on a day and at a time that does not clash with their other activities.

I will have no more than 4 students in a class. Some come once a week, some twice, so I need to specify this.

Class levels are : infant, primary 1, primary 2, primary 3, ESO, Bachillerato, Adult 1, Adult 2, Adult 3.

Classes are from Monday to Friday, 15:00h to 20:00h.

I could do with some help with how I would enter the data in order to do this task?

Any help greatly appreciated, as I'm having trouble getting my head around it.