Analyze Course Requests for Equity
After student course requests have been collected, take some time to review requests to ensure that special populations are gaining access to necessary courses. Schedulers can use this information to understand which courses may benefit from further marketing or recruitment to increase the diversity of students requesting enrollment.
Examine Requests Using the Schedule Monitoring Report
Click the waffle icon in the upper right hand corner of the screen and click on Abl Analytics
Click on Schedule Monitoring and select the scheduling year and grade level
Scroll to Subject Area Requests to examine the student demographics of course requests across subject areas
Scroll to Advanced Course Requests to examine the student demographics of course requests in advanced courses
Review Overall Course Request Trends
Looking at the Course Board schedulers can quickly see gender, EL, and IEP distributions across courses. Using filters to narrow down to departments, or specific sets of courses, this can help identify trends in course requests.
Navigate to the Course Board and click on List View
Locate the student demographic information located on the right side of the board
Scroll to view courses that may be unbalanced across several key demographics, such as gender, English Language Learners, and students with IEPs.
Filter and sort data to view the students and courses you want to see
Examine Course Request Composition for Specific Courses
Looking at the demographic composition of specific courses is helpful if your strategic scheduling goals have named target courses in which to increase access for identified student groups.
Navigate to the Course Board and click on List View
Click on the name of the course you want to examine
On the left side of the screen there is a section called Course Request Composition
Click on the different demographic categories to look at the request distributions across grade levels, gender, scheduling groups, and race/ethnicity
