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Student scheduler12/18/2023 ![]() Enrollment heat maps and balanced section reporting (ROI dashboard) that demonstrate the ROI of the tool.Smart instructor forms help institutions to be more student-centric while still being cognizant of faculty needs, and to automate the tedious, manual process of gathering preferences.Policy enforcement, such as time blocks and primetime rules, to improve course access and save time.Section scheduling to ensure you offer the right courses, seats and sections in tandem with space bookings.So what does a modern scheduling solution include that perhaps a legacy room scheduling system might not have? Woman working on a computer to create the class schedule. Universities started to 1) Think more about student success and recognize research that suggests booking all classes in prime times, and or having a lack of understanding of course demand can decelerate completion velocity 2) face even more of a space crunch, and in some cases become incentivized by state legislatures to improve space utilization and 3) Quite simply… administrators had less time. Recently, though, schools have begun to re-conceptualize scheduling as much more than optimization of a cesspool of diverse preferences. And the funny thing is, they actually do that pretty well. So, room optimizer solutions were built to take in unstructured preferences and then optimize them the best that they could. ![]() ![]() Faculty & departments could request whatever times and in some cases rooms that they wanted, and they would usually get them. Why are room optimization solutions so prevalent… and bad? Dating back to the late 1990s when some of the earliest tools hit the market, scheduling was extremely decentralized. But can you do better? The History of Legacy Room Optimizer Solutions Why is it that folks rarely actually save time and improve resource utilization with these solutions? Often, it feels like they are just a hard-to-use system to prevent room double-bookings. Especially with legacy vendors, we estimate greater than 50% of clients never run a good optimization at all. But in practice, few schools have truly gotten an optimization to work well for them, and in a lot of cases it can be more work to set up than the benefit of running it. The idea of clicking a button, building the perfect schedule and sitting back and relaxing is quite compelling. Optimizing the schedule is a hot buzzword in higher ed. A modern scheduling solution can help institutions offer the right mix of courses, enforce scheduling policies, and track vital data. While schedule optimizers date back nearly 30 years, many institutions still struggle to optimize course offerings and room assignments. ![]()
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