The Options Feasibility Report The pattern you create in Options has (later, when you or your school timetabler [if a different person] come to schedule your timetable) to fit on the timetable against...
How is 'Satisfaction' calculated in Options ? Options presents two ways of calculating satisfaction: ‘Student satisfaction’ is based on the number of students who have had all their choices satisfied....
Maximum Group Sizes By default, the 'Maximum Group Size' numbers that you enter on the Options Subjects Screen are advisory rather than definite limits. The reason for this is that you may say initial...
In Options, if you have a lot of Patterns in your Pattern Library, then rather than scrolling through this list to find the Pattern you want, you can quickly jump to a pattern you have recently worked...
How to Edit or Manipulate your Current Pattern If you visit the Current Pattern screen, there are a variety of tools available to you, to help edit or manipulate your Pattern, including: Shuffle Bunch...
How to Shuffle in Options If you want to make minor tweaks to which students are in which groups in your Options Pattern, the Shuffle feature helps you to do this. It shows you what moves are possib...
How to 'Roam' a Group in Options When working on your Current Pattern, with a group highlighted (in the example below, it is Spanish), you can explore what would happen if you moved the Group from thi...
How to Amalgamate Groups/Levels (in Options) Note: there are 2 ways in which you might 'amalgamate' in Options - this is method B (after creating a pattern) You can ‘amalgamate’ (or combine) specific ...
How can student friendships be supported, and bullying perhaps reduced? In Options there is a feature that allows you to (where it is possible): -- put friends who support each other in the same optio...
Improving the look of a Pattern If you wish to improve a Pattern offered to you by Options, then there are several things you can do to create different patterns, and see if any better suit the constr...