FET Free Timetabling Software ::.

FET Tools/Links ::.

1. Directly FET-related free software tools/links
2. Directly FET-related freeware (proprietary software) tools/links
3. Other free software for school administration/scheduling
4. Other pages about theory and practice regarding school administration/scheduling

1. Directly FET-related free software tools/links:

Volker Dirr's site with FET variants; also mirror for official FET

• Alternative timetabling algorithms and German FET support (by Volker Dirr)

FET pages of different GNU/Linux distributions:

• FET page of archlinux
• FET page of FRESHports
• FET page of Guix
• FET page of Debian
• FET page of Ubuntu
• FET page of openSUSE

An unofficial FET Bitbucket repository, with various customizations, by Rodolfo Ribeiro Gomes

• An unofficial FET Bitbucket repository, by Rodolfo Ribeiro Gomes

A program to convert the FET timetable XML results to Microsoft Excel, by Roberto Trevisan. Please see the Readme.txt file for usage instructions. The version number is 1.0.0.5, as of 21 November 2023. The macOS version is not yet updated, but maybe you can use the old version (which does not export the rooms' timetable. See the 'old' directory).

• A program to convert the FET timetable XML results to Microsoft Excel, by Roberto Trevisan

An Italian page, with tutorials and help for FET

• An Italian FET related page (by Fabio Piedimonte)

Some spreadsheet macros for using official FET on Moroccan schools. The purpose is to arrange the final timetable in a nice format, using export to CSV from FET and importing these results by the macros in a spreadsheet file.

• Some spreadsheet macros for using official FET on Moroccan schools (by khalafi)

Video tutorials, clues and other resources for using FET (in Portuguese). (Indicação de tutoriais em vídeo, dicas e outros recursos para uso do FET.)

• Avaliação e Gestão na Educação (blog) (by Alexandre R Soares)

A .html file with which you can make small manual modifications and print a schedule made with FET (by g.theodoroy).

• A .html file with which you can make small manual modifications and print a schedule made with FET (by g.theodoroy).

An advanced web application to visualize, modify, and print timetables generated by the FET software with enhanced features customized for official FET versions and the Moroccan system (morning-afternoon) (by Youssef Ouallaout).

• An advanced web application to visualize, modify, and print timetables generated by the FET software with enhanced features customized for official FET versions and the Moroccan system (morning-afternoon) (by Youssef Ouallaout).

An alternative Russian translation, with terminology adapted for schools (by Andrey Kurzakov, assisted by ChatGPT). The version number is 6, as of 14 September 2025. You need to unzip the provided file, rename the files to fet_ru.ts and fet_ru.qm, and overwrite the corresponding FET files in fet-v.v.v/translations.

• Alternative Russian translation for schools (by Andrey Kurzakov, assisted by ChatGPT).

2. Directly FET-related freeware (proprietary software) tools/links

FET READ - freeware (proprietary software).

• http://fet-read.blogspot.gr/

3. Other free software for school administration/scheduling:

RosarioSIS - Free Student Information System for School Management (GNU GPL)

• https://www.rosariosis.org/
  There is available a FET-compatible timetable import module for this software (MIT License): https://gitlab.com/francoisjacquet/Timetable_Import

Open Admin for Schools - a School Administration Program (GNU GPL). Work is in progress by Les Richardson to integrate FET into it.

• http://www.openadmin.ca/

AURORA Timetable - a timetable generator and editor application, mainly for elementary and high schools (Apache License V2)

• https://timetable-software.com/

University Course Timetabling & Student Sectioning Application (GNU GPL)

• https://www.unitime.org/

KHE - A Software Library for High School Timetabling and Nurse Rostering (GNU GPL)

• http://jeffreykingston.id.au/khe/

Web based school administration software

• https://sourceforge.net/projects/schooladmin/

Moodle - Course Management System (CMS) - GNU GPL. The student management system was added to Moodle in version 2.2 and above.

• https://moodle.org/

openSIS Community Edition - GNU GPL.

• https://sourceforge.net/projects/opensis-ce/

Free Student Management System - GNU GPL and other license options.

• https://sourceforge.net/projects/freesms/

Open Atrium - GNU GPL.

• https://www.drupal.org/project/openatrium

Gibbon - GNU GPL.

• https://gibbonedu.org/

4. Other pages about theory and practice regarding school administration/scheduling

Benchmarking project for (high) school timetabling

• https://www.utwente.nl/en/eemcs/dmmp/hstt/