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Good stuff!! Scheduled 3 times all in less than 8 minutes for 7200 activities.. Nice improvement..good job.

Would be good if we found a way to schedule the activities to different rooms based on capicity!

Is there a way to remove the basic compulsory constraints?

Hmm.. I'm handling all creating of sections outside of FET and I'm also able to create a very good teacher/course schedule using FET.. FET handles this perfectly ... but I want to use FET to schedule the students to the sections (activities) that I already created including teachers.

One thing I do not get.. you are saying that I can use rooms for real activities and activities for real students.. thats fine but it seems to me that there is no way to schedule more than one activity to each room for each timeslot... is this correct?

So I can create a schedule with activities and teachers first from what I have today using FET and then Im thinking in the second operation schedule the students to the activitys using FET... And I belive this would work if I was able to use room as activity and add multible activitys to one room in the same period/day

The basic constrain for room that has to be there controls that.. or?

These are the basic compulsory constraints (referring to rooms allocation) for any timetable
Weight (percentage)=100%
The basic space constraints try to avoid:
- rooms assigned to more than one activity simultaneously
- activities with more students than the capacity of the room

I'm not sure you understand my question correctly and will try to explain the best I can.

Here is an example of what I need scheduled:

Example 1:
I have 3 sections in the course named MATH that all have a duration of 5 hours a week one for each day with preferred starting time period 1. The 3 course have different teachers.
Each of the courses takes a maximum of 20 students. (room capacity)

I have a total of 50 students that is going to be added to the the course split up within the 3 sections.. so each of the sections will have for example 15x15x20 students.

Example 2:
Same as above but with the same teacher for all sections.

Obviously I have a lot more students and sections but if I got this example to work I think FET would work for our needs.

I'm banging my head against the wall here 

I tried the first approach but all rooms are all over the place.. added <Max_Number_of_Different_Rooms>3</Max_Number_of_Different_Rooms> to all activitys (students)

See attached FET file

appreciate your help

Thanks for your reply.

So your first solution where a real student = a FET activity and a real activity = a FET room.. will you be able to control max number of FET activities (students) in each room (real activity)?

Also the second approach.. what if one of the (real activitys) is scheduled to the same time slots as one of the other two with a different teacher, will that work?

Hello, and thanks for a great scheduler.

I been twisted my head around trying to figure out how to schedule the students to activity.
Scheduling activities/teachers and rooms works beautifully but as soon as I try to add students or student groups there is no way to solve the schedule.
I'm trying to add the students randomly to the activities they should attend but thats obiously not good enough as that creates conflicts

I have the following scenario as an example:

I have 3 activities that each can have 20 students (total 60 students)
I have 50 students that need to be scheduled to one of the three activities using FET.

I have tried to create students as rooms as mentioned in other forum posts without success. Can someone please explain to me how this can be done?

I have attached the FET file trying to use room as students.

Thanks