Tackling Budget Constraints
Are you looking for ways to reduce costs for your department?
MORE TIME, LESS COST
Following the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing budget cuts, how financially constrained is your department? If your department struggles to find lab TAs within the department and has to pay TAs or graders from elsewhere, Labflow can reduce this outflow of department resources.
Labflow typically reduces grading time by 50% or more, enabling you to give your TAs an extra section for the same 20-hour TA appointment and reducing the TA-associated lab course costs by 33%. For every 10 lab TAs you have now, you could remove three TAs—a savings of $60,000 or more per year.
USE CASE
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
UIUC uses 100% automatically graded lab reports to increase the number of lab sections a TA teaches from the typical two to seven, saving the department hundreds of thousands of dollars each year. Each hour of a TA’s 20-hour appointment is used for in-lab contact time, and they spend no time on grading.
The university originally built the auto-graded lab reports in LONCAPA, but supporting and evolving this system to keep up with rapidly changing technology and desired curriculum changes became onerous, and they have since turned to Labflow to accomplish this goal. This helps enhance teaching, learning, and time savings—it’s a win-win-win for the department.
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