Creating Time Table in FET

Free Timetabling Software for

STATE/CBSE/ICSE/IGCSE Schools
Downloading FET
1. Download FET from the below location -

http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/download.html

2. click on the link - Latest version executable for Windows: FET-5.16.0 - 12 December 2011
http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/download/fet-5.16.0.exe

Installing FET

3. Extract the downloaded file to C:\ drive as shown in the image below

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Run FET Application
4. Goto extracted folder C:\fet-5.16.0 and double click on FET executable.

5. The FET Application window will be shown as below –

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Time Table Generation First Step
Collect Data Required for Generating Time Table for your School as shown below in a word or excel
document.

School Name:

MARVELSOFT English School

Number of Working Days per Week:

6 (MON, TUE, WED, THU, FRI, SAT)

Hours / Periods per day:

9 periods, (including short/long breaks)

09:55, 10:40, 11:25, 11:35, 12:20, 01:05, 01:45, 02:30, 03:15 – total 9 periods

11.25-11.35: short break

01.05-01.45: lunch break

Saturday no classes after 01.05

Classes for which you would like to create Time Table:

3rd STD A, B Sections

4th STD A, B Sections

5th STD A, B Section

6th STD A, B Section

7th STD A, B Sections

8th STD A,B Sections

9th STD A,B Sections

10th STD (only one section)

Subjects being handled in the above mentioned classes:

Kannada, English, Hindi, Maths, Science, Science – Physics, Science – Biology, Science – Chemistry,
Social, Computer, PE, GK

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Name’s of the Teachers who will be handling one or more of the above mentioned subjects for the
above mentioned classes:

Staff Name Short Staff Name Short Staff Name Short Name
Name Name
Radha R.M Manjula G.N.M
Ambika H.C.A G Nanjegowda VNG Sowmya B.S.S
Sudhakar S.D Rehethunissa R.U Shilpa G.S
Channakrishnappa N.C.K Ethashuddin JE Manjula G.N.M
Ethashuddin JE Srinivasai SM
Savith Kaudi S.K Manjunath VJM Savitha Kaudi S.K
Srinivasai SM
Poornima S Ps Srinivasai SM
HM Nagaraj HMN
Sunitha S.R.R Sumina Rehman S.R
Rupakala R.K.S Sowmya BSS Sumina Rehman S.R
Rajesh Kumar M.R.K Sunitha SSr
Savitha MCS
Savitha M.C.S RU
G N Manjula GNM SNS
Asha D.A VNG
Sayeeda S.N.S JE
Sumeena Rehman SR Poornima PS

Create a Table as shown below which would contain details required to generate time table in the FET.

Maximum
Short Subject Classes taken by the
Teacher Name Periods Per Constraints
Name Specialization respective teacher
Day
Radha R.M Kannada 3rd A,B and 5th A 6
Ambika H.C.A Kannada 4th A,B and 5th B, 6th A 6
Sudhakar S.D Kannada 6th B, 7th A,B and 8th A 6
Channakrishnapp N.C.K Kannada 8th B, 9th A, B and 10th 6
a
Ethashuddin JE English 7a b, 10 5
Savith Kaudi S.K English 5thA B, 6th A B 5
Srinivasai SM English 3 ab, 4 ab 5
Poornima S Ps 8a b 9 ab 5

Sunitha S.R.R Hindi 3rd A,B 4th A,B and 5th A 5

Rupakala R.K.S Hindi 5th B, 6th A,B and 7th A, B 5
Rajesh Kumar M.R.K Hindi 8th A,B 9th A,B and 10th A 5

Savitha M.C.S Maths 3rd A,B 4th A,B 6

G N Manjula GNM maths 5ab 6
Asha D.A Maths 6th A,B 7 ab 6
Sayeeda S.N.S Maths 8th A,B, 9th A,B 6

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Sumeena SR Maths 10tha 6
Rehman

Sowmya B.S.S General 3rd A,B 4th A,B 6

Science
Shilpa G.S Science 5th A,B 6th A,B 6
Manjula G.N.M Science 7th A 6
Srinivasai SM Science 7b 6
Savitha Kaudi S.K Science - 9ab 10th A 2
Biology
2
Srinivasai SM Science-Bio 8ab 2
2
Sumina Rehman S.R Science - 8ab 9ab 10 2
Phy
Sumina Rehman S.R Science - 8ab 9ab 10 2
Che

Manjula G.N.M Social 5th A,B 6

G Nanjegowda VNG Social 6th A,B 9th A,B 6
Rehethunissa R.U Social 7th A,B 8th A,B 6
Ethashuddin JE Social 10th A 6

Manjunath VJM Computer 3rd A,B 4th A,B 5gh A,B 2

6th A,B 7th A,B 8th A,B, 9th
A, 9b, 10

HM Nagaraj HMN P.E 3rd - 10th 2

Sowmya BSS GK 3ab 2

Sunitha SSr GK 4a 2
Savitha MCS GK 4b 2
RU 7ab 2
SNS 8ab 2
VNG 9ab 2
JE 10 1
Poornima PS 5ab 6ab 2

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Adding Master Data in FET
The data that we have collected in the previous steps have to be entered in the FET under each of the
menus in the Data menu, as shown in the below steps.

1. School Name:
MARVELSOFT English School
Enter the school name in the following menu -

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 2. Number of Working Days per Week:

6 (MON, TUE, WED, THU, FRI, SAT)

Enter the number of days per week and the days in Days per week menu.

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 3. Hours / Periods per day:

9 periods, (including short/long breaks)

09:55, 10:40, 11:25, 11:35, 12:20, 01:05, 01:45, 02:30, 03:15 – total 9 periods

11.25-11.35: short break

01.05-01.45: lunch break

Saturday no classes after 01.05

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 4. Classes for which you would like to create Time Table:

3rd STD A, B Sections, 4th STD A, B Sections, 5th STD A, B Section, 6th STD A, B Section, 7th STD A, B
Sections, 8th STD A,B Sections, 9th STD A,B Sections, 10th STD (only one section)

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 5. Short Breaks and Lunch Breaks:

11.25-11.35: short break

01.05-01.45: lunch break

Saturday no classes after 01.05

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 6. Subjects being handled in the above mentioned classes:

Kannada, English, Hindi, Maths, Science, Science – Physics, Science – Biology, Science – Chemistry,
Social, Computer, PE, GK

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 7. Name’s of the Teachers who will be handling one or more of the above mentioned subjects for
the above mentioned classes:

Staff Name Short Staff Name Short Staff Name Short Name
Name Name
Radha R.M Manjula G.N.M
Ambika H.C.A G Nanjegowda VNG Sowmya B.S.S
Sudhakar S.D Rehethunissa R.U Shilpa G.S
Channakrishnappa N.C.K Ethashuddin JE Manjula G.N.M
Ethashuddin JE Srinivasai SM
Savith Kaudi S.K Manjunath VJM Savitha Kaudi S.K
Srinivasai SM
Poornima S Ps Srinivasai SM
HM Nagaraj HMN
Sunitha S.R.R Sumina Rehman S.R
Rupakala R.K.S Sowmya BSS Sumina Rehman S.R
Rajesh Kumar M.R.K Sunitha SSr
Savitha MCS
Savitha M.C.S RU
G N Manjula GNM SNS
Asha D.A VNG
Sayeeda S.N.S JE
Sumeena Rehman SR Poornima PS

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 8. Refer the below table and add the activities of the teacher for each of the class in activities
menu.

Maximum
Short Subject Classes taken by the
Teacher Name Periods Per
Name Specialization respective teacher
Day
Radha R.M Kannada 3rd A,B and 5th A 6
Ambika H.C.A Kannada 4th A,B and 5th B, 6th A 6
Sudhakar S.D Kannada 6th B, 7th A,B and 8th A 6
Channakrishnapp N.C.K Kannada 8th B, 9th A, B and 10th 6
a
Ethashuddin JE English 7a b, 10 5
Savith Kaudi S.K English 5thA B, 6th A B 5
Srinivasai SM English 3 ab, 4 ab 5
Poornima S Ps 8a b 9 ab 5

Sunitha S.R.R Hindi 3rd A,B 4th A,B and 5th A 5

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 9. Define the time constraints in the following menu.

In the above example the Physical Education subject is marked such that, this period will never occur in
the first period and after 1:45 PM on Saturdays. If the subject period must not come on a specific time,
then select subject name and mark when it should not occur.

If the Subject teacher is not available on a particular time, then select the teacher name from the above
menu and mark when on which time they are not available.

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 10. Define Time Table output folder
FET will create the timetable in html format and it will place it in the specified folder. Choose the
output folder from the below menu.

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 11. Generate Time Table
Goto Timetable menu and click on generate new. If you have defined less number of constraints,
the time table will be generated quickly. If the constraints are more, then it will take time.

Once the time table is generated successfully, You can quickly view it from view teachers, or
view students. To see the html and printable version goto to output folder which you specified
in the previous steps, you can get teachers, students and school level timetable.

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 12. Save Everything for later use.

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