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Designing a Pattern

  • Feasibility Report [In Options]

    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...

  • Satisfaction in Options

    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' numbers for Groups in Options

    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...

  • Roaming

    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...

  • Amalgamate Groups (on the Pattern) (method B)

    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 ...

  • Friendship Requests & Bullying

    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 an Options Pattern

    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...

  • Can I Delete a Subject after I have started a Pattern?

    Delete a Subject in Options If you have started any work in Options, then: no, it is best to not delete a Subject (on the Subjects Screen).  There may be a pattern or choice or rule (etc) that contain...