The Administrative and operational demand of the ‘Student to Graduate’
process is significant for universities. The University of the Western Cape (UWC)
wanted parts of their Academic Admin solution optimised for their 25,000 plus students.
UWC faced the following challenges:
- On any given day, a UWC admin will mark 500 to 5000 paper
based MCQ tests or exams via a dedicated scanner.
- All scripts are marked centrally at the Student Admin Office.
- In addition about 100 000 written assessment results are
manually captured per month by the faculties.
- For the most part, the process is manual and there are many
person-to-person information transfer points.
- A spike in volumes requires more marking time and increases a risk of
bottlenecks, missed deadlines & inaccuracy.
So, UWC turned to Qurio’s Marks Admin and Academic Admin Solution. Qurio offers UWC scale, access, simplicity and can be used on and off campus.
To optimise the solution several criteria had to be considered. Remove dependencies, by rolling the solution out to faculties and making it accessible from anywhere. Remove the negative impact of a spike in user or script volumes, on the time required to deliver results. Automate MCQs via both an e-Assessment option & a paper-scan to e-Assessment option. Automate ‘results capture’ via a result-sheet scan. Sync assessment schedules, class-lists, courses and post operational results via integration point to university admin database.
Put another way – define each process with just a few key steps, automate workflow, enable task sharing between employees and seamless solution integration.
Seamless Scale
- Spikes in user or assessment volumes have no impact delivery time or results.
- Qurio is available to all faculties, on and off campus – from anywhere
- Tasks can be shared between employees
- Seamless integration and sync of academic admin data.
- Each process is reduced to a few key steps – simplified to improve success.
- Productivity benefits via automation.
- Upgrades to UWC office scanners for the ‘paper-scan to e-Assessment’ option - via Qurio’s scan server software.
The clarity of a bigger picture – analytics and reporting for student success.
A Connected campus – making real progress, where data flows completely and results are delivered within a few key steps, as useful information to its students and employees.