General

• Gender Bias [Options]

  Monitoring for Gender Bias There may be occasions when you wish to monitor your Options groups for possible gender bias. For example:  if you want to encourage more girls into Computer Science. Option...

• Installing TOOLS

  If you have Options, then you can (if you wish) ask your students to submit their choices online, via our free TOOLS system - and then import these choices into Options.   More details on The TOOLS pa...

• Using Reserve choices in Options

  An explanation of how Reserve choices work in Options : To use Reserve Choices, choose 1 or 2 Reserves on the Populations Screen. When you do this, an extra button appears at the bottom of the Current...

• Emailing in TOOLS

  Sending Emails from TOOLS You can ask for a confirmation email to be sent to each student or parent, after they enter their choices into TOOLS (via Item 2 on the TOOLS Admin Menu).   If you are experi...

• A message says that my Options licence has expired

  Options Licence expired All annual Site Licences and Help & Support for Options are synchronised to expire at the end of December. From the 1st December, every time that you start the program, you are...

• Resetting the Admin Password in TOOLS

  TOOLS Admin Password   Q:   I have forgotten the TOOLS admin password (or got locked out somehow) ... can I reset it    A:   Solution: To reset the admin password to its default of 'password': > Metho...

• Using Options with a Team

  Options in a Team: If you have two or more people who wish to work on your student options (electives) at the same time, you may find the following useful: -- 1)  You can install Options on a network ...

• How to Restore a Backup file

  Restore (earlier data) Note: this article refers to a Backup you previously saved to a memory-stick or similar, using TT-Backup.  If you are instead trying to restore a Backup/Archive from your Auto-B...

• [OPT] Cloning a Pattern in Options

    Q.    Is it possible to Clone an existing Pattern, to allow for some work to occur on the Cloned pattern without changing the original pattern?     A1.    Yes, you can Clone a pattern: Go to Design ...

• Using 'Pathways' in Options & TOOLS

  Pathways Using Student Pathways in Options: If you are using 'Pathways' in your school (where some students follow one set of choices / pathway, and another group follows a different set of choices / ...