Published: Jun. 25, 2024
Scale Your Field-Based Education Programs and Improve Student Experience
Academia has always had a complex relationship with emerging technology, as is evidenced by its stance on AI tools being used in the classroom and in research.
But students, teachers, and administrators are demanding more efficiency and collaboration across physical boundaries, and the benefits to technology are expansive for day-to-day placement tasks and reporting.
To help you scale and improve your program, we’ve outlined the seven functions that are essential to have in your student placement management tool.
- Efficient Placement Programming: Clear and efficient mapping of all stages of your student placement program, from identifying the opportunity to completing evaluations, ensures a seamless transition of student data. Administrators must be able to track program requirements virtually and streamline the placement process through optimized placement workflows.
- Simplified Time Tracking: Allowing students to track hours while faculty and administrators support students helps them complete their field experience requirements on time.
- Integrated Communication: By having one software tool carry out all the steps in the placement process, communication becomes more accurate and efficient. Students should be able to interact with site managers, professors, and administrators, and vice versa, with communication logged for easy reference.
- Supervisor Qualification Tracking: Ensuring all supervisors and placement opportunities meet accreditation requirements through qualification tracking within your field education management tool improves the overall field experience as students are mentored by appropriately qualified individuals.
- Automated Workflows: Creating intelligent workflows and automated forms and reports in your software ensures centralized data collection, accurate progress updates, and up-to-date status reports on task completion – ultimately giving students a better experience and saving administrators time. Automated messages are also crucial to helping guide students back on track to meet deadlines and placement requirements.
- Collaborative Field Evaluations: Feedback that is timely and efficient is critical to building an effective student placement program. Your tool should empower faculty, students, and placement supervisors to share reflections on the experience in one platform which supports the overall placement process and students’ development.
- Robust Reporting and Assessments: The program placement process, student performance, and other key metrics must be easily measured in your management software – allowing you to identify areas of strength and weakness. Administrators should be able to export and share data with professors, placement supervisors, and students.
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