Apps people use daily
Students choose their modules online
Optional modules are chosen once a year, by everybody, in a fortnight. Done on paper it is a fortnight of the office's life — and the answer still has to be typed into something afterwards.
- Students choose in a browser
- Single sign-on supported
- The result comes back as a spreadsheet
- Two free guides, 27 pages
What it does, in one pass
One application, three audiences, and the office is only involved at the two ends of it.
The administrator defines what is on offer — the modules for this year, who may take each of them, and how many each student must or may choose. That definition is the whole configuration; there is nothing to program.
Students choose in a browser, before enrolment or during it, at whatever hour suits them. They see the modules that are genuinely available this year rather than last year's prospectus, which is the part that quietly removes most of the e-mail traffic.
The office gets the result as a spreadsheet — every student and every choice, in a form that can be read, sorted, counted and handed to whatever comes next. It is not a report somebody has to transcribe.
- Defined by an administrator, without developers
- Chosen by students online, at any hour, from any device
- Only the modules actually running this year are shown
- Returned as a spreadsheet, ready to use
Students sign in with the account they already have
The application supports single sign-on, so a student uses the institution's own account rather than a password invented for module choice and forgotten by the time it matters. For the institution that means no separate identity to issue, to reset or to remove when somebody leaves.
It is a hosted application with its own address, so nothing has to be installed anywhere and nothing has to be opened on the institution's network for it.
Why it is worth doing before the timetable, not after
Module choice is the input that decides how large every optional class actually is. Collected late, or collected on paper and typed up in the second week of term, it arrives after the timetable has already been built around an estimate — and the corrections are what people remember about September.
Collected online, before enrolment, it is a spreadsheet of real numbers in front of the person building the schedule. Group sizes are known, the rooms that will not hold a cohort are known in advance, and per-student scheduling has real choices to work from. How student-level generation uses that.
The guides
Both published free and ungated, like every other document on this site.
- Guide for students (PDF, 9 pages)Signing in, seeing what is on offer, making and changing a choice, and what happens when a module fills up. The document an institution hands out with the invitation to choose.
- Guide for administrators (PDF, 18 pages)Defining the year's modules and the rules around them, opening and closing the choosing period, watching it fill, and getting the result out as a spreadsheet.
- About the application itselfWhat Option Selector is, and the department it was originally built for — the product page rather than the process.
- See it against your own module structureForty-five minutes, with your own optional modules and your own rules rather than a scripted tour.
See Wise Timetable on your own data
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