On this website there's a free (gnu) application to do this (they call it "student sectioning", and it also takes into account the fact that there's timetable conflicts) : http://www.unitime.org/sct_description.php
They published this article to explain their approach and compare it to others: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.unitime.org/papers/patat08.pdf On 10 Sep 2013 10:57, "Dave Cross" <d...@dave.org.uk> wrote: > Quoting James Laver <james.la...@gmail.com>: > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 9:19 AM, Dave Cross <d...@dave.org.uk> wrote: >> >>> Not necessarily. How many courses are there Dave? >>>> >>> >>> >>> About 30. >>> >> >> Sorry, that was in the original email. I meant to ask how many students. >> > > 387. >