Usage for scheduling non regular timetable for academies

[michelemi]

Hello,

and than you for this great software.

I collaborate with an academy that has a few classes (6 - 7 classes per year) that are quite complex as each class it is supposed to attend from 600 to 900 hours of lessons each year.
These amount of hours are divided into subjects, like 40 hours of math, 50 hours of english and so on.
But, timetable it is not regular each week.
These classes are assigned to have lessons at teh academy for example two days a week, and they will attend the 900 hours from september to may for example. They have 4 hours in the morning of one subject and 4 hours in the afternoon.
We have constraint so that subject2 cannot start before subject1 is not finished and so on.
We have alsso to match classrooms availability, as some subjects can be held only on specific classrooms.

Is FET suitable for this kind of timetble generation (even paying for some modification?)

Thank you,
Michele

[Liviu Lalescu]

Hello,

Thank you!

Maybe increasing the number of days per FET "week" to 7*31 and adding some custom additional constraints could help. We have some custom versions here accepting more days per week, see Custom versions (https://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/custom.html): "A version allowing a maximum of 150 days per 'week'"

About preferred rooms, I think the official FET constraints could remain the same.

[michelemi]

Hello Liviu,

thank you.
So you say I could imagine the full planning like a very very long week, right?

How could then to assign a class to lessons at mondays and fridays for example?
How could we manage holidays during te calendar year?

Thank you,
Michele

[Liviu Lalescu]

Yes. But there are many constraints which might not work as needed, for instance gaps per week.

It is easy, add break constraints or teacher/students set not available, if I understood correctly.