"Which room is free on Tuesday at 11?"
The question you get asked in a corridor, and why your timetable is organised the wrong way round to answer it.
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Tricks, tutorials and worked examples for building timetables.
Will it give me my file back?
Your .fet file is a term of work. Before you hand it to any tool, there is one question worth asking — and one two-minute test that answers it.
A teacher calls in sick at 07:40
Forty minutes to find out who is free, decide what happens to four lessons, and tell an entire school. Every week, somewhere.
Your timetable is finished. Now forty teachers need to see it.
Generating the timetable is the part everyone plans for. Publishing it is the part that quietly costs you the rest of the term.