Scheduling problem

[sgarg]

Hi Liviu,

I have a peculiar problem -

In a year, I have several Groups (G1, G2, .....Gn), and some of these groups have common subjects (S1, S2...). Now since the number of students are large, there is a group of Teachers for each of these common subjects - say, S1 is taught by T1+T2+T3+T4+T5+T6, which means that G1+S1 will be taught by T1 for 2 hours and T2 for 2 hours in a week, G2+S1 will be taught by T2 for 2 hours and T3 for 2 hours in a week, G3+S1 will be taught by T3 for 2 hours and T4 for 2 hours..... and so on.

There are 4 classes each of 1 hour per week for these common subjects. Also, the teachers teach other subjects only to specific groups.

How do I asign these activities so that the correct combination of teachers reflects in the time-table generated?

When I tried to assign an activity like this A1 = G1+G2+G3+G4 with T1+T2+T3+T4+T5+T6, and A2 = G5+G6+G7+G8 with T10+T11+T12+T13+T14, and so on.... I got an unsolvable error saying that the total number of hours for a teacher exceeded the total hours available in the week.

Can you suggest what would be the best possible way of going forward?

Thanks in advance.

Sudhir

[Liviu Lalescu]

You need to decide for a placement of teachers/students and add these activities, like: A1(G1,S1,T1), A2(G1,S1,T2), A3(G2,S1,T2), etc. FET cannot decide automatically.