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08.03.2008 New version (0.8.1) of Open Course Timetabler is released. You can download it from download page. This version includes some bug fixes, improved GUI for design of main timetable report, additional reports (master timetable, teacher list, teacher hours, rooms list). All the reports are generated as pdf files. The most important feature of this release is automated timetabling. GUI for input of data for soft constraints and simple algorithm for automated timetabling are implemented. However, this algorithm has very, very limited capabilities, it's not optimised and it's not efficient. It can be used only for small educational institutions that have small number of lessons for timetabling. For bigger institutions it's possible to timetable manually the main part of lessons and our algorithm could timetable the rest of lessons, trying to find optimised solution. |
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Welcome to Open Course Timetabler |
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Open Course Timetabler is free and open source application for university and school course timetabling. It is written in C# and runs under .NET framework on Windows (and will likely run under Mono on Linux or Mac OS X). Current features include: - very comfortable user interface (GUI)
- manual timetabling is done using drag-and-drop technology
- the same application for two types of documents (for universities and schools), but different application strings for schools and universities
- all document data are stored in XML file (.oct extension), with possibility for export to any database (using plugin)
- timetable reports for student groups, teachers and rooms are generated as pdf files, using PdfSharp open source library
- data exported to database can be used in PHP or ASP.NET (or any server script) page for web view
- possibility to export data into any data format (using plugin)
- possibility to import data into application from any database or data format (using plugin)
- undo/redo for all document actions
- possible localisation in any language (currently localised in English and Croatian)
Our vision is to provide educational institutions all over the world by the possibility to make timetabling with free, open source and reliable application. We belive that's possible. |
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