Length: 4 hrs
Traveled down to Geelong last week to have a look at ‘The timetabler’ package as we are thinking of turfing ‘FirstClass’. The package seems to have much better data access with many more ways to export and report. The actual timetabling algorithm seems to be based on the old fashioned analogue system of place cards on a board and switching them around to get a solution. May be the interface is set up like this to please the old school uses but to me it just worried me that the algorithm they use is antiquated as well. It did seem that you have to go through several more steps to set the data up and run the timetabling part of the program. I think we will probably change to it as its data retrieval seems much more suited to the needs of the school and any TTing issues will only effect me.
The needs of the many out way the needs of the few or the one!
