Timetabling  -  the book

Have you got the responsibility for scheduling the timetable in your school or college ?

Do you want to learn more about timetabling (scheduling) -- perhaps as preparation for a career move ?

Are you looking for a book or software to help you to understand the problems involved in scheduling a school timetable ?
  

‘Timetabling’ is a book by Keith Johnson   (ISBN 0-7487-1077-9)

Although written some time ago, many timetabling truths are eternal and this book remains the standard text on timetabling (scheduling) for schools in the UK.

Further details are given below:

Chapter 1
Flowchart of timetabling (scheduling)
The timetabler’s year

Chapter 2     Option Schemes
Principles of choice for students;  Option pools (Electives)
Using a Clash Table to analyse students’ requests

Chapter 3      Staff Deployment Analysis
Explanation of ‘contact ratio’ and ‘curriculum bonus’
Worked examples

Chapter 4     Collecting the data for scheduling
Matching the staffing to the curriculum
Staff Loading Chart

Chapter 5     Timetabling Test 1 - the Combing Chart
Teacher teams;  the Principle of Compatibility
The Combing Chart - worked examples
Schematic diagrams

Chapter 6     Timetabling Test 2 - the Conflict Matrix
The Conflict Matrix - worked examples
The effect of other resources - period-breakdown, rooms, etc

Chapter 7     Timetabling Test 3 - Accommodation
The Rooming Fraction - worked example
The rooming equation

Chapter 8     Other pre-scheduling checks
Zarraga ’s rule
Deciding priorities

Chapter 9     Scheduling
Six timetable models
Ten rules for scheduling
Nine tactics and ‘musical-chairs’ moves
Fitting a difficult item
Improving the quality
Rooming
Checking, assessing, distributing the timetable
   
Chapter 10     Computer timetabling
This chapter is now out-dated by the TimeTabler software, available free from our download page, with a full Tutorial.
Click here for more details.

Appendices  
A flow-chart of curriculum planning
21 curriculum formulae
Listings for 12 computer programs - but these are now hopelessly out-of-date, and have been replaced by the modern TimeTabler software, available from our download page, with other free software.

The ‘Timetabling’ book (147 pages) is now available from
October ReSolutions Ltd
3 Crown Green
Lymm
Cheshire
WA13  9JG
UK
Fax : 01925-75-20-30
or via keith@timetabler.com

at a cost of £19, including post & packing within the UK
(overseas airmail & packing charged at £9)

Publishing history:
 ‘Timetabling’ was initially published by Hutchinson Ltd, as ISBN 0-09-141630-2.
It was then published by Stanley Thornes Ltd, as ISBN 0-7487-1077-9.
It was more recently published by Nelson Thornes Ltd, as ISBN 0-7487-1077-9.

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If you have any queries, please e-mail them to: keith@timetabler.com 
We will answer any questions you may have about using the software with your particular curriculum.

© Chris & Keith Johnson