About FineTime
FineTime has been carefully designed to combine the capabilities of a powerful timetable scheduler with a modern but simple drag-and-drop user interface.
Its development has been guided by close consultation with teachers working in schools of different types.
Please take a look at our Screenshots page to see
FineTime in action under Windows and Linux, or browse the
online help pages to learn more about FineTime's
capabilites.
And that's not all!
- Silverbean Software is working constantly to further improve FineTime.
- Your can actively influence the future development of FineTime with your comments.
- You get a better, more powerful timetabling program with each update.
FineTime 2.5 Highlights
- An intuitive, wall-planner based method of manual scheduling.
- An advanced automatic lesson scheduler.
- Lets you combine manual and automatic scheduling for optimal results while maintaining data consistency.
- User definable teaching days (may include Saturday and Sunday), number of periods per day, and break times.
- Manual timetable editing facilities include multiple lesson selection and full Undo & Redo functions.
- Allows scheduling of auxiliary teachers for lessons requiring more than one teacher.
- You can enter school data directly, or import data in CSV format from Excel, text editors, etc.
- Teacher and venue substitute lists created by timetable comparison.
- Flexible definition of student groups that covers classes with options as well as more complicated student-course allocations as e.g. in the sixth form.
- Courses and teacher qualifications are easily defined by subject and level.
- Numbers of venues, courses, teachers and groups limited only by memory capacity.
- Takes account of availability preferences for venues, teachers and groups.
- Ensures that group sizes do not exceed venue capacities.
- Allows the definition of preferred venues for teachers and student groups.
- Courses can be restricted to suitable venues, e.g. chemistry to chemistry lab.
- If required, automatically allocates groups to teachers during scheduling.
- Easily defined and scheduled multiperiod lessons.
- Couplings to prevent groups with common students from being scheduled at the same time.
- You can view the timetable by either group, teacher or venue, with lesson cards coloured by teacher or course.
- You can zoom from low detail overview to high detail inspection.
- WYSIWYG printing of the entire master timetable.
- Timetable printouts for all resources, either individually or in batch mode.
- Exports the master timetable, resource timetables, and substitute lists in HTML for intranet publishing, etc.
- An extensive online help system.
- XP look and feel when running under Windows XP.