exam-scheduler 0.0.1

A commandline tool to create examination schedules

Exam_scheduler

exam_scheduler is a commandline tool to produce teacher-duty schedule in examination for a school/college.

Installation

Install using pip (Recommended)

• Use pip to install, user --user flag

python3 -m pip install --user exam_scheduler

Build from Source

• Clone the repository and checkout to stable commit

git clone https://github.com/srbcheema1/exam_scheduler
cd exam_scheduler
git checkout <latest_version say: v0.0.x>

• install requirements

python3 -m pip install --user -r requirements.txt

• Install exam_scheduler

python3 setup.py install --user

• Building Source Distribution

python3 setup.py sdist

Inputs Required

• room_list - includes room-name and teachers-required as compulsory attributes. Other attributes may follow.

• teacher_list - includes teacher-name and rank as compulsory attributes. Other attributes may follow.

• schedule_list - A 2D matrix includeing relation between a session and a room, value is 'Y' if room is required on particular session.

Input can be provided in a xlsx or csv file

Config files

• config.json - includes paths for input files in json format. default path ~/.config/exam_scheduler/config.json

{
    "room_list": "/home/srb/programs/exam_schedular/input/room_list.csv",
    "teacher_list": "/home/srb/programs/exam_schedular/input/teacher_list.csv",
    "schedule_list": "/home/srb/programs/exam_schedular/input/schedule_list.csv"
}

By default it will automtically pick files from working-directory OR input-folder containing room_list,teacher_list,schedule_list in their names.

• work_ratio.json - includes working ratio for different ranks with respect to rank 1.

{
    "1": 100,
    "2": 150,
    "3": 200,
    "4": 250,
    "5": 300
}

This means if rank 1 will work for 100 units then rank 3 will work 200 units, simply rank 2 will work twice than rank 1.

Usage

srb@srb-pc:$ exam_scheduler --help
usage: exam_scheduler.py [-h] [-v] [-o OUTPUT]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --version         Display version number
  -o OUTPUT, --output OUTPUT
                        Output file name, default output.xlsx

srb@srb-pc:$ exam_scheduler -o result.xlsx
Using room_list : /home/srb/programs/exam_schedular/input/room_list.csv
Using teacher_list : /home/srb/programs/exam_schedular/input/teacher_list.csv
Using schedule_list : /home/srb/programs/exam_schedular/input/schedule_list.csv
Output written to : /home/srb/programs/exam_schedular/result.xlsx

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Developer / Author: Srb Cheema