Infrastructure: The core features (policies & procedures, human resources, physical resources, technology resources, financial resources) of an institution that facilitate daily functions and operations
Do you need to stabilize, organize, or strategize to improve your student success and degree completion efforts? Discovering a starting place can be challenging. That's why we created the Course Scheduling Infrastructure Diagnostic. By completing the survey below, you’ll discover your institution's course scheduling infrastructure level.
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Infrastructure: The core features (policies & procedures, human resources, physical resources, technology resources, financial resources) of an institution that facilitate daily functions and operations
Academic Program Pathways: The idealized way for students to complete a program of study
Lagging Metrics: Summative metrics used to measure a trend after it has occurred
Leading Metrics: Formative metrics used to measure progress towards a goal
Momentum Year Requirements: First year benchmarks, strategies, and metrics for early graduation momentum (Gateway English and math, 30 credit hours completed, 9 credit hours toward credential, etc.)
Optimal Schedule: An efficient, conflict-free schedule that allows students to register for their required courses (open seats, no time conflicts)
Student Success: Student progress to degree completion; An effort to close the gap between student aspirations and reality
Student Success Interventions: Practices that directly impact student success, ideally through tracking leading metrics
Bottlenecks: A point of congestion in which demand exceeds capacity
Underutilized or Low Enrolled Courses: Sections that do not meet an institution’s minimum enrollment guidelines or threshold
Course Scheduling Grid: The organizational structure used to arrange and communicate your standard course schedule meeting patterns
Exception Policy: Guidelines that allow departments to offer a course that does not fit the standard course scheduling grid or meeting patterns
Classroom Utilization Metrics: Metrics used to measure when and how much classrooms are used; these metrics could include usage during standard hours, prime hours, and seat fill percentages
Department Scheduled Rooms: Rooms that are not centrally scheduled
Student-Aligned Schedule: A course schedule aligned with student demand
Seat Cap: The enrollment capacity of a section
Waitlisting: The process of tracking student enrollment for a closed or at capacity section
Instructional Capacity: The enrollments that existing faculty can support in each of the various credentials offered
Scheduling Stakeholders: Campus members who create, process, and revise the course schedule
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