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14 Metrics for
Adaptive Course Planning
At most institutions, the course schedule is seemingly never quite fine-tuned enough to support student demand: seats go empty, courses overflow, staff are left scrambling to get instructional resources in place, and students struggle to get into the courses they need to complete their degrees on time. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Institutions that leverage data to inform course planning decisions and monitor registration in real time can proactively plan in a way that supports student progress, maximizes instructional resources, and adapts quickly as needs change.
Explore this infographic to learn 14 metrics institutions can use to achieve adaptive course planning and understand how unreliable—or unavailable—data in the course planning process impacts staff, faculty, and students. Plus, click the orange arrows to learn how each set of metrics can improve your course planning process.
14 metrics for better course planning
Planning Phase
The Pitfalls of Bad Data in the Planning Phase
Impact on Staff
Academic leaders typically don’t have easy access to the metrics listed above, so the Registrar is inundated with individual requests, and it becomes easiest to roll over the previous term’s schedule without proper evaluation. This leads to high numbers of both low-fill and high-fill sections, and ultimately, ineffective utilization of space and instructional capacity.
Impact on Students
Poorly planned course offerings can inhibit students’ paths to timely degree completion. For example, high-fill sections act as access bottlenecks when student demand for the course exceeds capacity and students are unable to register for the course.
Registration & Adjustment Phases
The Pitfalls of Bad Data in the Registration & Adjustment Phase
Impact on Staff
By the time academic leaders receive course enrollment and registration data, it is typically out-of-date. This results in reactive, rather than proactive, decision-making.
Impact on Students
If courses or sections are added too close to the end of the registration window due to reactive planning, students may miss the chance to enroll in required courses for timely degree completion.
Additional course planning resources
Use data in your academic resource planning
Our two videos will help you embed APS data into faculty line planning and course and section planning to drive data-informed decision-making and achieve cultural change.
