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Timetabling Principles

  • 'Timetabling -- The Timetabler's CookBook'

    The ‘Timetabling Bible’ … thousands of copies sold worldwide … 'The Timetabler's CookBook' has sold several thousand copies around the World, and is considered to be the timetabler's 'bible'. It cover...

  • 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  ...