Option

Options facilitate the selection of optional subjects by the students and the automatic creation of option blocks.

Tabs

Setup

Participating class groups

Class groups containing the students that will choose from the subjects.

Available subjects

Subjects the students can choose from. You can adjust the number of subjects the students must select in the option's properties.

Student choices

Review the students' choices and the totals for each subject in this tab. If adjustments are necessary, click on the student's name to edit their choices.

Properties

Number of required student choices

Specify the number of subjects each student must choose from the list of available subjects.

Completion deadline

Modifying the choices by the students will not be possible after this date.

Calculation of options blocks

Click on the Calculate button to proceed to option block calculation once all the students have made their choices.

Skolaris automatically calculates the best possible combination of subjects arranged into option blocks based on the student choices and the course settings, such as the minimum and maximum numbers of students.

If Skolaris cannot find option blocks satisfying all the constraints, you can use the bias slider in the optimisation settings and rerun the optimisation to produce a compromise solution best suitable for your circumstances. You will find the details of any problems by clicking on the health and fitness icons. If an acceptable solution cannot be found, please modify the student choices (e.g. eliminating courses with too few students) or the available subject settings to obtain different results.

Click on the Create new option blocks button to proceed to option block creation.

Creation of option blocks

The controls on the page are prefilled with the calculated suggested subject combinations. Feel free to modify them or add teachers and lesson durations if you wish to create lessons at this stage.

Discarding will take you back to the calculation screen.