Category: Best Practices

What’s happening inside your classroom right now? Are your instructors following your policies?  Are there areas your instructors could improve? Measuring instructor performance in vocational education is critical for student success and compliance. Unfortunately, for many schools, evaluating instructor performance over time proves challenging. For example, direct observation only measures a point in time—when instructors… Continue reading 4 Ways To Measure Instructor Performance

In the ever-evolving landscape of career education, the key to success lies in understanding the needs and expectations of the very individuals it serves—students. Organizations increasingly recognize the immense value of student feedback as a catalyst for positive change. By actively collecting and leveraging student satisfaction feedback, these institutions can pave the way for an… Continue reading Five Ways To Get More Out Of Your Student Feedback Surveys

A typically high-performing student has been tardy more often the last month.  And now, they haven’t shown up for three days straight.  What’s going on? There are many different factors that go into whether or not a student will succeed, some are surface-level like whether or not they’re showing up to class.  But other factors… Continue reading The Top Five Indicators of Student Success—And How To Leverage Them To Increase Retention

Now, you can build and deploy forms and surveys faster than ever before with CourseKey’s new forms tool.  The easy-to-use forms builder allows you to automatically send surveys, track completions, and analyze results in the same system that you track attendance, academics, and skill attainment—centralizing critical student data.  With student data in one place, you… Continue reading Introducing Forms: Easily Track And Manage Student Feedback

Bank statements, insurance paperwork, and other official documents now all feature one little check box at the bottom: “Opt-in to paperless statements.”  Companies of all sizes and industries are starting to prioritize paperless to reduce overhead costs and better reach young audiences—who prefer digital communication and rarely even own printers.  Going paperless is good for… Continue reading The Cost of Paper In Career Education: Why It’s Time To Go Paperless

We’ve all felt the sting of inflation at the grocery store and favorite restaurants.  Unfortunately, it’s also impacting schools. According to a recent survey of 150 career education professionals, increased operating costs have emerged as a top-three challenge for 2023.   The cost to operate a higher education institution increased by 5.2 percent in the fiscal… Continue reading Four Ways To Ease The Impact of Inflation at Career Education Schools