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I realize that this topic is a bit dated; but, now that I have FET working it is time to add some complexity to my life again.  I am interested in recommendations for school administration software.

In particular I need:
Easy to set up and use -- This is a must and I realize it is very subjective

Student register
Attendance tracking
Grade tracking

I would really:
Discipline activity tracking

We are a private school; so I would also like:
Tuition and fees tracking

Linux is fine, I need it to be accessible by the teachers, ideally from individual computers on the network (we really don't have a network yet, I am arguing with our parent organization about that)

The title to this topic said what I wanted to say. I just wanted to thank you not only for the work you put into the program; but also the work you put into support. Without the handholding I doubt I would have gotten FET to work for me.

Now that I do have it working it is making my job, as an academic director, much simpler.

Thank you very much.

I realize I am a bit quick to blame "the great firewall of China" when things don't work right, generally the blame is well placed; however, this time it was clearly my mistake (even if I don't see why the original link never opened). This newly compiled version opened just fine. So now we can confirm that there is a "Mavericks" (10.9.2) executable.

Again, thank you.

Did you try: http://fet.lmi2me.com/download/ (or, directly, http://fet.lmi2me.com/download/fet-5.21.2.zip ) ?

Those two worked; but, the only things in the download directory were:

[DIR]   Parent Directory        -    
[ ]   fet-5.19.0.zip    03-Sep-2013 08:01    22M   
[ ]   fet-5.21.2.zip    13-Apr-2014 10:55    31M   

The mac file is not there

Please try the new version from the same link: 5.21.2

Now I cant access it. I have just left Shanghai for Jiangsu, it is possible that the drop box you are using is blocked in this province.

I will keep trying.

The requested URL /download/fet-5.21.0-mac-64.zip was not found on this server.

. . . sorry to be a nuisance about this; but the stuff you would expect to be available, like Qt, are blocked

The requested URL /official_releases/online_installers/qt-opensource-mac-x86-1.5.0-2-online.dmg was not found on this server.

No, I am still getting an error:

to confirm, yes, this is a 64 bit (i7) machine

Process:         fet [2651]
Path:            /Users/USER/Downloads/*/fet.app/Contents/MacOS/fet
Identifier:      @BUNDLEIDENTIFIER@
Version:         
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:  launchd [138]
Responsible:     fet [2651]
User ID:         501

Date/Time:       2014-04-12 21:46:01.370 +0800
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.9.2 (13C64)
Report Version:  11
Anonymous UUID:  77CD9401-4832-0C7E-B684-4FC425EFE422

Sleep/Wake UUID: ACDE2371-B11A-44B2-8A84-3A0C6D806506

Crashed Thread:  0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:  EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000

Application Specific Information:
abort() called

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib           0x00007fff8de27866 __pthread_kill + 10
1   libsystem_pthread.dylib          0x00007fff8f7f335c pthread_kill + 92
2   libsystem_c.dylib                0x00007fff887dab1a abort + 125
3   QtCore                           0x00000001026e1b99 qt_message_fatal(QtMsgType, QMessageLogContext const&, QString const&) + 9
4   QtCore                           0x00000001026e21d1 QMessageLogger::fatal(char const*, ...) const + 161
5   QtGui                            0x00000001022575cd QGuiApplicationPrivate::createPlatformIntegration() + 4333
6   QtGui                            0x00000001022575eb QGuiApplicationPrivate::createEventDispatcher() + 27
7   QtCore                           0x00000001028d97a8 QCoreApplication::init() + 104
8   QtCore                           0x00000001028d9717 QCoreApplication::QCoreApplication(QCoreApplicationPrivate&) + 39
9   QtGui                            0x000000010225550e QGuiApplication::QGuiApplication(QGuiApplicationPrivate&) + 14
10  QtWidgets                        0x0000000101c07cee QApplication::QApplication(int&, char**, int) + 206
11  @BUNDLEIDENTIFIER@               0x00000001003c2c90 main + 48
12  @BUNDLEIDENTIFIER@               0x0000000100003db4 start + 52

Thread 1:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib           0x00007fff8de27e6a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1   libsystem_pthread.dylib          0x00007fff8f7f3f08 _pthread_wqthread + 330
2   libsystem_pthread.dylib          0x00007fff8f7f6fb9 start_wqthread + 13

Thread 2:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.libdispatch-manager
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib           0x00007fff8de28662 kevent64 + 10
1   libdispatch.dylib                0x00007fff8b06e43d _dispatch_mgr_invoke + 239
2   libdispatch.dylib                0x00007fff8b06e152 _dispatch_mgr_thread + 52

Thread 3:
0   libsystem_kernel.dylib           0x00007fff8de27e6a __workq_kernreturn + 10
1   libsystem_pthread.dylib          0x00007fff8f7f3f08 _pthread_wqthread + 330
2   libsystem_pthread.dylib          0x00007fff8f7f6fb9 start_wqthread + 13

Thread 0 crashed with X86 Thread State (64-bit):
  rax: 0x0000000000000000  rbx: 0x00007fff74cfb310  rcx: 0x00007fff5fbfed98  rdx: 0x0000000000000000
  rdi: 0x0000000000000707  rsi: 0x0000000000000006  rbp: 0x00007fff5fbfedc0  rsp: 0x00007fff5fbfed98
   r8: 0x0000000103b03380   r9: 0x0000000000000000  r10: 0x0000000008000000  r11: 0x0000000000000206
  r12: 0x00007fff5fbff088  r13: 0x00007fff5fbffce8  r14: 0x0000000000000006  r15: 0x00007fff5fbffd30
  rip: 0x00007fff8de27866  rfl: 0x0000000000000206  cr2: 0x00000001026e3b50
 
Logical CPU:     0
Error Code:      0x02000148
Trap Number:     133

External Modification Summary:
  Calls made by other processes targeting this process:
    task_for_pid: 0
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0
  Calls made by this process:
    task_for_pid: 0
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0
  Calls made by all processes on this machine:
    task_for_pid: 16795
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0

VM Region Summary:
ReadOnly portion of Libraries: Total=185.4M resident=109.1M(59%) swapped_out_or_unallocated=76.4M(41%)
Writable regions: Total=63.5M written=1612K(2%) resident=1768K(3%) swapped_out=0K(0%) unallocated=61.8M(97%)

REGION TYPE                      VIRTUAL
===========                      =======
Kernel Alloc Once                     4K
MALLOC                             40.4M
MALLOC (admin)                       32K
STACK GUARD                        56.0M
Stack                              9304K
VM_ALLOCATE                          32K
__DATA                             33.1M
__IMAGE                             528K
__LINKEDIT                         71.4M
__TEXT                            114.0M
__UNICODE                           544K
mapped file                        22.4M
shared memory                         4K
===========                      =======
TOTAL                             347.6M

Model: MacBookPro9,2, BootROM MBP91.00D3.B09, 2 processors, Intel Core i7, 2.9 GHz, 8 GB, SMC 2.2f44
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000, Intel HD Graphics 4000, Built-In, 1024 MB
Memory Module: BANK 0/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz, 0x02FE, 0x45424A3431554638424455352D474E2D4620
Memory Module: BANK 1/DIMM0, 4 GB, DDR3, 1600 MHz, 0x02FE, 0x45424A3431554638424455352D474E2D4620
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0xF5), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.106.98.100.22)
Bluetooth: Version 4.2.3f10 13477, 3 services, 23 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Ethernet, Ethernet, en0
Serial ATA Device: APPLE HDD ST750LM022, 750.16 GB
Serial ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-8A8
USB Device: Hub
USB Device: android
USB Device: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
USB Device: Hub
USB Device: Hub
USB Device: IR Receiver
USB Device: BRCM20702 Hub
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Thunderbolt Bus: MacBook Pro, Apple Inc., 25.1

Can anyone send me a copy that runs on OSx Mavricks 10.9.2?

I am in China and cannot download anything form Apple (I have contacted customer support and gone to the apple store to correct this, we are not going to fix it here; it will not be resolved until I return to the US). To make things worse, while there I allowed them to up date my system to the latest OS. Now FET is not working at all.

When I try to run it I get:

Process:         fet [702]
Path:            /Users/USER/Downloads/*/fet.app/Contents/MacOS/fet
Identifier:      com.yourcompany.fet
Version:         
Code Type:       X86-64 (Native)
Parent Process:  launchd [138]
Responsible:     fet [702]
User ID:         501

Date/Time:       2014-04-11 07:08:12.189 +0800
OS Version:      Mac OS X 10.9.2 (13C64)
Report Version:  11
Anonymous UUID:  77CD9401-4832-0C7E-B684-4FC425EFE422

Sleep/Wake UUID: 9E30C1A0-14AC-476C-9B52-2FCAA199D1FE

Crashed Thread:  0  Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread

Exception Type:  EXC_BAD_ACCESS (SIGSEGV)
Exception Codes: KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE at 0x00007fff5f3fffd8

VM Regions Near 0x7fff5f3fffd8:
    MALLOC_NANO            0000608000000000-0000608000800000 [ 8192K] rw-/rwx SM=PRV 
--> STACK GUARD            00007fff5bc00000-00007fff5f400000 [ 56.0M] ---/rwx SM=NUL  stack guard for thread 0
    Stack                  00007fff5f400000-00007fff5fc00000 [ 8192K] rw-/rwx SM=COW  thread 0

Thread 0 Crashed:: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
0   com.apple.CoreText               0x00007fff8f8aa1fd TcmapTable::Map(unsigned short const*, unsigned short*, long&) const + 405


<snip>

  Calls made by all processes on this machine:
    task_for_pid: 1398
    thread_create: 0
    thread_set_state: 0

VM Region Summary:
ReadOnly portion of Libraries: Total=184.2M resident=97.7M(53%) swapped_out_or_unallocated=86.5M(47%)
Writable regions: Total=93.8M written=6992K(7%) resident=15.5M(17%) swapped_out=0K(0%) unallocated=78.2M(83%)

REGION TYPE                      VIRTUAL
===========                      =======
CG image                              4K
CG shared images                    148K
Kernel Alloc Once                     8K
MALLOC                             54.4M
MALLOC (admin)                       32K
STACK GUARD                        56.0M
Stack                              9824K
VM_ALLOCATE                        16.3M
__DATA                             32.9M
__IMAGE                             528K
__LINKEDIT                         70.0M
__TEXT                            114.2M
__UNICODE                           544K
mapped file                        77.4M
shared memory                         4K
===========                      =======
TOTAL                             432.0M

Ok, I did that and now in Activities>Students I have A2 Thinking Skills Economics and A2 Thinking Skills Chemistry How do I put these two groups of students into one thinking skills class?

I have a timetable almost done. I am generating:

Year one (IG) just fine, this year has no electives

Tear two (AS) fine, thus year has two electives, Further Maths and Thinking Skills
To make this one work I created two groups in year AS, called Further Maths and Thinking Skills These two classes can run concurrently, a student who is in one is not in the other.

Year three is my problem. I have four electives
pair 1: Further Maths and thinking Skills
Pair 2:Economics and Chemistry

When I created a set of groups Further Maths and Thinking Skills it worked like the AS year; but, I also want a student to be able to substitute pair 2. (A student in further Maths might be in either Economics or Chemistry; similarly, a student in Thinking Skills might be in either Economics or Chemistry.)

How can I do this?

So to be clear, I need to make an activity called " AS English Grammar - 1", "AS English Grammar - 2" "AS English Grammar - 3" . . . "AS English grammar 5"

"AS Math 1" . . . "AS Math 7"
"AS ECON 1" . . . "AS Econ 7"

and so on for each topic

So, in the DATA > Subjects screen, for each subject, that meets seven times a week, it would be listed seven times?

As I understand it, a single class is a single activity. So, if that is the case then if English Grammar meets five times per week I need to make five distinct activities, is that correct?

The same for English reading and English listening, math and other classes, is this right?

I hate to ask; but, where is the examples folder?

I would like to ask a similar question because I clearly do not understand Groups and Subgroups. Please do not laugh at our size, we are a small school; small enough (36 students) that this year I easily did the scheduling by hand. But, next year 2014-2105 the main campus plans to double our size (an added 40 students), and the next year 2015-2016 they intend to double us again with an added 150-160 students. I clearly need to get started out doing things right or in two years this will be unmanageable.

We have an IG class (apx. grade 9) of 24. Of that class eight of them are in a Intensive English class that takes them out of Business and English classes (this allows us to split the English class into a High and Low level).

IG - 24
Intensive English Track - 8
Standard English Track - 16

To make this more confusing, I have one student who goes to Intensive English for all of those class except for those which coincide with Business, in those periods he goes to Business.

Next year the current IG students will be in AS and 40 incoming students will be in IG

This years AS class has 18 students
5 of them are in Chemistry
13 of them are in Economics

Next year these students will be in A2

"sum of duration of the activities for that teacher" that is not in my version.

Is that the same as Data > Time Constraints > Teachers > "A teacher works in an hourly interval max days per week"

I am using Version: 5.19.0 (January 2013) in OSX in English

Where is it entered? Does it need to be typed directly into the data file?

I have looked and I cannot find it, before posting this I did a forum search on the word "week."