1. The Strategic Impact of Effective Scheduling
Evidence-based Decision-making and Planning

2. Scheduling for Student Success
Noel-Levitz Survey on Student Satisfaction
Notes: generally low student satisfaction in Executive Summary and Biggest Challenges at their Institution:
4-Year Public - #1 issue is “Ability to get the courses I need with few conflicts”
4-Year Private - #1 issue is “Ability to get the courses I need with few conflicts”
2-Year Community College/Technical - #1 issue - “Classes are offered at times I’m available.” #2 issue - “Ability to get courses I need with few conflicts”

3. Scheduling for Student Success
Blose (1999, New Directions for Higher Education journal)
"Because the biggest differences between institutions in terms of persistence and graduation rates is the amount of time it takes to earn a degree, low graduation rates may be partly a function of institutional conditions that impede academic progress, including course availability, scheduling, and problems with advising."

4. What Analytics Measure (Davenport and Harris, 2007)
Optimization
What’s the best that can happen?
Predictive Modeling
What will happen next?
Forecasting
What will happen next if these trends continue?
Statistical Analysis
Why is this happening?
Alerts
What actions are needed?
Query/Drill Down
Where exactly is the problem?
Ad hoc Reports
How many, how often, where?
Standard Reports
What happened?
Shaded area is true analytics, other is statistical analysis.

5. The Primary Issue – Supply / Demand Imbalance
(See Animated Demonstration)

6. Ownership of Student Success
Institution
Course
Seats
Focus
Course
Load
Registration
Order
Instruction
Planning
Offering
Time
Advising
Persistence

7. Enrollment Management
ADMISSIONS
STUDENT
ACHIEVEMENT
ALUMNI
RELATIONS

8. The Rear-View Mirror and the Windshield
Assessing the effectiveness of past schedules
Historical trending demand
Historical last like term demand
Forecasting the needs of future term
students (progressing students’ demand)
Program analysis (student need via degree progression decision tree)
Student academic planner (student intent and desires via direct “survey”)

9. Platinum Analytics Suite

10. Key Solutions Retention Graduation Student Success Forecast Capacity
Efficiency
Advising/ Planning

11. Key Solutions Classrooms Faculty Parking Student Success
Forecast Capacity
Efficiency
Advising/ Planning

12. Key Solutions Space Course Seats Student Success Forecast Capacity
Efficiency
Advising/ Planning

13. Key Solutions Completion Roadmap Student Intent Student Success
Forecast Capacity
Completion Roadmap
Student Intent
Efficiency
Advising/ Planning

14. Version VII Academic Planner / Platinum Analytics Brief Demo

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