Allocation Methods Available in Sonia

Background

Sonia offers several methods for Placement Officers to allocate students to placements, including the following:

• Manual allocation - directly assigning students to placements
• Auto-allocation - considers factors such as student preferences, grade, weighting, and potential clashes to automatically assign students to placements
• Streams - allow for grouping placements within a placement group, enabling the allocation of students to a sequence of placements based on predefined patterns.

Sonia also allows for students to source and report their own placements. They have two options:

1. Self-selection - select a placement from a list of opportunities within their placement group 
2. Create - select their site from a full list of active sites in Sonia 

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