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“But I need that class to graduate.”

“But I need that class to graduate.”. Background. Owen Nicholas Skriloff 20 + years of software development Masters degree in Systems Engineering Java and Microsoft Certified Senior Developer for Registrar product for 10 years Here is my Family. Agenda. Introductions The Problem set

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“But I need that class to graduate.”

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  1. “But I need that class to graduate.”

  2. Background • Owen Nicholas Skriloff • 20 + years of software development • Masters degree in Systems Engineering • Java and Microsoft Certified • Senior Developer for Registrar product for 10 years • Here is my Family

  3. Agenda • Introductions • The Problem set • History of enrolling student in classes • Comparison of different MBA school solutions • History of Darden Solutions and Clients • Demo

  4. Introductions • Darden School of Business at UVa • Offers MBA, EMBA, GEMBA (2 Year programs) • Have about 330 MBA, 50 EMBA students per class year • Please ask questions

  5. The Problem • You have mostly type-A personality students across multiple programs in your MBA school. They are all paying between 40K-60K/year to be at the school. There are important classes and teachers that they all want. About 20% of those classes will have more demand than capacity. You need to reserve certain seats for certain students and allow some students precedence over others, all while making the whole process as fair as you can make it. • How do you do it? How do you reduce randomness? How do you rival Ebay? • What kind of work would be created by the type of solution you choose?

  6. History Take a number? What letter does your name start with? Are you first year or second year? You get to choose two? Order your classes for us?

  7. History

  8. History Continued People want high tech • Students are used to doing things online • Expectation of fast, fair and easy • We need something betterhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8g4Ztf7hIM#t=0m31s

  9. Bidding • Each student is given a set of bid points • Bid points allow for a student show their interest in a course and priority across all courses • Bid points allow the registrar to gauge demand • In some cases the previous year’s clearing price is shown to students • In some cases student’s set the clearing price

  10. Bidding Philosophy • Reduce randomness • Allow students access to last year’s clearing prices .

  11. Schools surveyed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_business_school_rankings

  12. Phases • Phase is a period of time in which a student can take action on a course of interest • Those possible actions for a course are bidding, swapping, dropping, wait-listing and/or adding.

  13. High Level Comparison

  14. Background before we cover each individually Academic Year From Sept 2011 to May of 2012 Fall Spring Quarter 1 Quarter 2 Quarter 3 Quarter 4 Sometime before the beginning of the quarter or semester there will be 3-10 phases of different types (e.g. bidding, add/drop, waitlists, swapping) • Most full time MBA students are pre-enrolled into their first year courses • Most of the schools allow their second year students to bid for their courses (electives) • Degree requirements can usually be satisfied by more than one particular course • All of them rarely have a situation where any student “needs a class to graduate” • All integrate with the central university system by automated processes • Not looking to say any one way is better than another

  15. Chicago Booth School

  16. Darden School

  17. MIT Sloan

  18. Northwestern Kellogg

  19. Wharton

  20. Columbia

  21. Summary • No one way is better than another • Informative how different schools have chosen to answer “What is fair course allocation?”

  22. History of Darden Solutions and Clients • 1997 Consortium and Bake-off • MBA students require a concierge level of service • Started a business but the apps were not enterprise ready • Rewrote all – started in ColdFusion, then converted to Java • Registrar being used by some schools

  23. History of Darden Solutions and Clients • Previous clients • Present clients • Website • Moving forward, there are opportunities for partners to join the Registrar consortium of schools and continue to improve the application and share its costs

  24. Important Entity Relationships • Course Offering overview • Available are ERD of OLR and ERD of Evaluations

  25. Demo • What is fair? Reducing randomness. • Bidding Demo (Course Offering Period, Courses, Program Versions, Programs, Phases) • Concentrate on Phases • Add/drop

  26. Conclusions • We started with the problem and have seen how different business schools have answered the question • Would you feel more in control of your destiny with bidding or the line? • Where would this fit in at your school?

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