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Timetabling Principles

  • 'Timetabling -- The Timetabler's CookBook'

    'The Timetabler's CookBook' has sold several thousand copies around the World, and is considered to be the timetabler's 'bible'. It covers all aspects of timetabling and its principles, for the beginn...

  • The Timetabler's Year

    This is a brief timetable of timetabling, for the school year - it can be a useful checklist for the timetabler: The Timetabler's Year PDF Note: There is a more detailed version in the materials that ...

  • The Conflict Matrix

    The Conflict Matrix is an important pre-scheduling test for checking your teacher-teams, and seeing how the teams of one year-group might fit against the teams from another year-group. It can be helpf...

  • The Combing Chart

    This is a very useful pre-scheduling test for checking your staffing / teacher-teams. It allows you to look for impossibilities or potential constraints in the data you are intending to schedule.     ...

  • A Glossary of timetabling terms

    Glossary of Terms Timetabling has some specific terminology, recognised by experienced timetablers.  For an explanation of the key terminology used in timetabling, please see this link: Glossary PDF  ...