Good GCSE Options software?

[Rob_D]

We use Bromcom as our MIS, but the options module isn't great.

Does anyone know of any good options software? We've asked other schools in the locality, and they're pretty much all using SIMS options.

[psydii]

I've seen "Options" work well.  It's from the same team that brought us the inspirationally named (and highly regarded) "Timetabler"

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Caveat: it was a long long time ago, from the earliest days of the Bromcom MIS.

[AlistairB1983]

Probably not much use, given it forms part of a much wider package/website, but we use the Options module within Applicaa for ours.

[FN-GM]

What does good look like to you? What features are you looking for?

[BKGarry]

We once used SIMS Options online, never again there, and there was several years of attempts on that.

 

We now use the Options part of Timetabler, the TOOLS web version works very well for students to select their Options, very very simple to use, and It does all the Option block building and manipulation you want. If you are using Timetabler as your timetabling package, I would say it is completely worth it.

[Rob_D]

1 hour ago, FN-GM said:

What does good look like to you? What features are you looking for?

 

What they want is a solution that can grab all the student choices from a spreadsheet, and automagically set up the bands/classes with an easy (or at least user intuitive way) to tweak the output before it's exported and turned into a proper timetable.

 

To be fair the Timetabler Options, looks good to me.