FET – scheduling the timetable of a school, high-school or university

Last Updated on July 10, 2021

FET is open source software for automatically generating the timetable of a school, high-school or university. It can also be used for other timetabling purposes.

FET is able to automatically care about all groups (classes/courses/students), has a very large palette of constraints and styleable xhtml timetables.

FET is able to solve a complicated timetable in a maximum of 5-20 minutes.

Features include:

• Fully automatic generation algorithm, allowing also semi-automatic or manual allocation.
• Platform independent implementation, allowing running on GNU/Linux, Windows, Mac and any system that Qt supports.
• Flexible modular XML format for the input file, allowing editing with an XML editor or by hand (besides FET interface).
• Import/export from CSV format.
• The resulted timetables are exported into HTML, XML and CSV formats.
• Flexible students structure, organized into sets: years, groups and subgroups. FET allows overlapping years and groups and non-overlapping subgroups. You can even define individual students (as separate sets).
• Each constraint has a weight percentage, from 0.0% to 100.0% (but some special constraints are allowed to have only 100% weight percentage).
• Limits for the algorithm (all these limits can be increased on demand, as a custom version, because this would require a bit more memory).
• A large and flexible palette of time constraints.
• A large and flexible palette of space constraints.
• Portable – FET should run on any system that supports Gnome and Python.

Website: lalescu.ro/liviu/fet
Support: Documentation
Developer: Liviu Lalescu
License: GNU Affero GPL v3

FET is written in C++. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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