I'm currently working on a school admin project in Django, i feel like i should add an app that will generate the school's time table after submitting the necessary details. I have sought online extensively, i couldn't get, and i want to build it to add to my knowledge. Anyone with me on this? You can give some hint, or if you've done something similar, or probably offer to work with me on this. Thanks. Note: it's not a paid project.
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Check out unitime by University of Purdue for ideas. Time tabling for universities is more complex than for say a secondary school because there are many variables and constraints. But you should get idea how to start. Good luck

Probably you could create a model called DepartMentTimeTable and another model called TimeTableDetails . Then use tabularinline to add TimeTableDetails to DepartmentTimeTable through modeladmin. With this you can keep adding more fields for the timetable. This is just a suggestion. You can fine-tune with what you want.

Breaking it down, timetable has periods for subject handled by teachers. Each class period has attributes start time, end time, subject, class, teacher, day of week, term, and maybe textbook. So let's say you have teacher, class, and subject tables in place already, you will have to create the subject period object / table. Off course periods cannot overlap in time. Teacher cannot be in two class at anytime. Those are commonsense business logics. If the school has a rigid period structure then better.

RepoMan007:
Breaking it down, timetable has periods for subject handled by teachers. Each class period has attributes start time, end time, subject, class, teacher, day of week, term, and maybe textbook. So let's say you have teacher, class, and subject tables in place already, you will have to create the subject period object / table. Off course periods cannot overlap in time. Teacher cannot be in two class at anytime. Those are commonsense business logics. If the school has a rigid period structure then better.

There are many more constraints to factor in. For example a teacher may not teach say two or may three consecutive periods, a teacher isn't around on Fridays so you cannot schedule their classes to fall on Friday. Certain subjects may not follow each other eg Further Mathematics and Mathematics. Some classes have to hold in a venue which has to be free eg Physics in a Lab. Timetabling is not so straight forward as many people think

airsaylongcome:


There are many more constraints to factor in. For example a teacher may not teach say two or may three consecutive periods, a teacher isn't around on Fridays so you cannot schedule their classes to fall on Friday. Certain subjects may not follow each other eg Further Mathematics and Mathematics. Some classes have to hold in a venue which has to be free eg Physics in a Lab. Timetabling is not so straight forward as many people think

Some.of these things too can be implemented programmatically. Two subjects can be forbidden from running consecutively and concurrently. Consecutively for the sake of students and concurrently for the sake of teachers.
Also that of avoiding too many consecutive periods can be done. When the allocator algorithm allocates periods out, most likely at random, it just needs to select subject period based on a combo of different and multippe criteria each time.
Subject timetable share a lot with football league timetables. Locations, team proximity and blockbuster match sequence are quite similar to some of the concerns raised here.