Student Options
1 day (9:30-16:00), £275+vat
- Blue dates are in Market Harborough
- Green dates are online but led by a trainer
- Pink are online/self study
This one-day course is designed to allow users to understand how to setup Options.
Collecting student elective choices and designing your option blocks is an integral part of the timetabling process, on e which may not involve the timetabler in some schools.
The course is very hands-on right from the start ensuring you know how the software operates as well as the work flow required in capturing, analysing and processing the data. So if you operate fixed blocks or preference-led blocking you’ll soon be up and running! For some schools collecting student options and designing the blocks has historically been a manual task. But now is the time for Options to take away all the donkey work and produce the final result and many other possible iterations in much less time. This allows you, the timetabler, to ensure that the option block pattern used is efficient for your timetable.
Computers and training data are provided and the format of the day is very much hands-on. We operate small groups of a maximum trainer to delegate ratio of 1:10 and you will receive a certificate of attendance. At MIST Services we appreciate that each school is ‘different’ so you will get lots of time to ask questions.
On purchasing the place on the course, you will also gain access to the on-line course too, so you can reference the materials (and extra materials) at your leisure after attending the course, allowing you to refresh your knowledge on how to build options or how implement reserve choices for learners where their first choices can’t be met. Access to these courses can only be given based on the email address given at the time of booking, so please ensure you use your email address when booking and is limited to 12 months from attending the course. You will be using student Options software from October ReSolutions (www.timetabler.com)
Course dates
Basic data
- Understanding what a Population is
- Setting up number of choices and whether to use ‘Reserves’
- Importing or typing Subject and Student data
- Entering of student choices manually, electronic and via TOOLS
Analysis of choices
- Setting up Choice rules and checking valid student choices
- When to use Free
- Understanding Clash table and number of groups required
- Understanding 2D and 3D analysis on the Clash table
- Checking Subject combinations (very useful marketing tool!)
Pattern generation
- Creating manual patterns
- Seeding a pattern design
- Auto-creating patterns
- Defining of auto-create rules
- Customising the auto-create generation settings
- Understand student and choice satisfaction percentages
- Comparing patterns
- Review and counsel of students
- Running of printouts and exports
Chris Knights-Branch
Instructor
I love Options, there is no other way to say it!
This one-day course will cover all aspects of setting up options for your school needs.
It goes without saying that schools wish to do their best for their students but is it better to have a solution you can schedule that has a slight compromise for a student or have no compromise but a solution that can’t be scheduled!
In an ideal world there wouldn’t be a need for such a compromise but with challenging budgets and staffing constraints you never know. But with Options you can easily do many ‘what-ifs’!
If you have any questions about the course just fill in the form below. Look forward to working with you.