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.