Effective Student Management (EduERP)

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Presentation given an EduERP at the University of Lagos in February 2013. Objective was to educate university CIOs on what to look for in software used for student management.

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Agenda!

|- Problem analysis

|- Review of the status quo

|- General principles for effectiveness

|- Critical to success factors

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Student M

anagement!

After this section, you should be able to:

①  Describe the problems with student management ②  List the key elements of the problem

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Meet … Seun Ibhrahim

He HATES queues!

In 2013, why should someone stand on a queue to …!

☀  Collect forms

☀  Pay fees at a bank

☀  Get signatures & stamps on forms

☀  Submit filled forms

☀  Apply for a transcript

☀  Be issued a transcript

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?!

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What are the queues a symptom of?

After this section, you should be able to:

①  Describe how student data is managed today ②  Identify what works ③  Identify what does not work ④  Identify what is missing

Discussion Questions!

“What constitutes great student data management?”

§  How will it make Seun’s life better?

§  How will it benefit the university?

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Discussion Questions!

“Who are the stakeholders in delivering great student data

management”

§  Who are the actors involved?

§  What is their current ‘pain’?

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Discussion Questions!

“What data needs to be captured?”

§  Why is that data important?

§  Who will provide the data?

§  What format should it be presented in?

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What data do we need about him?!

Bio-data

Contact details

Full academic record

Course yet to be cleared

Courses registered for

Courses cleared

Carry-over courses

Fee payment history

Disciplinary record

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Discussion Questions!

“how do the current set of ‘portals’ match up?”

§  What have they gotten right?

§  What have they gotten wrong?

§  What are they lacking?

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#1| Define a unifying purpose!

☀ “WHY are we

doing this?”

☀ Guides

EVERYTHING

☀ Clarifies

process goals

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#2| Address all stakeholder’s needs!

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#3| Clearly defined process!

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I-P-O!The set of steps and business logic

required to transform inputs into outputs

Students

Bursary

Lecturers

Banks

Students

Bursary

Lecturers

Registry

#4| Use the best tool for the job!

☀ Databases

☀ Web front-ends

☀ APIs for integration

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Ensure your tools support sharing of data

#5| Integrate like crazy!

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Academic Records!

Financial Records!

Accommodation!

Student ID cards!

Library system!

Infotech services!

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Get buy-in!

Students

Bursary

Lecturers

Banks

Over-Communicate!

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Status updates

System outage

New features

Discontinued features

Use cases

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Define & clarify all Processes!

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Stakeholder-specific training!

☀ Bursary staff

☀ Registry staff

☀ Technical staff

☀ Software developers

☀ Students

Continuously seek feedback & use to improve the system!

☀ Overall performance

☀ What’s working?

☀ What’s not working?

☀ What’s missing?

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Anticipate & manage bottlenecks!

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Archaic policies Technology Skills/competence People

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“Thank you for making my life easier!”

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