-- Significantly increased efficiencies lead to significant cost
reductions.
-- Student ease of use and convenience yield more candid responses.
-- Evaluation data captured are stored over time for extended analysis
(trend/historical).
-- The faculty care about accuracy -- with SaaS, data accuracy,
longitudinal analysis, and accountability increase.
-- The course evaluation process is streamlined and flexible,
facilitating timely access to data.
Why Go with SaaS for Course Evaluations?
The conventional, paper-based course evaluation process is costly and
labor-intensive. "Course evaluations are used for faculty reviews, content
improvement, and the collection of data for making critical and informed
decisions, but when the data are difficult to access, they remain unused,"
said Allen Wang, President of Timecruiser. "However, when colleges and
universities can leverage evaluation data to their advantage by getting the
right information to the right people at the right time, they can make
better decisions sooner."
"Under the outdated Application Service Provider (ASP) model, the provider
resells and houses a traditional, local software application in its remote
facility," said Anthony Ma, Timecruiser CIO. "Although the ASP model
relieves the customer of the operating responsibility, unlike on-demand
SaaS solutions, it doesn't eliminate the cost for the acquisition,
configuration, deployment and, later on, upgrades of the software and
hardware. In most cases, such operations do not have the ability to
effectively scale to accommodate fluctuating usage patterns."
CruiserEval will be available in the first quarter of 2009.
About Timecruiser Computing Corporation
Since 1995, institutions of higher education have relied upon Timecruiser
to deliver innovative enterprise management solutions, backed by unrivaled
customer service and technical support. Timecruiser's award-winning
products are used by over 2.5 million students, faculty, and administrators
at 90 institutions to
-- Improve Campus Communication
-- Implement Effective Course Management
-- Streamline Faculty Workload
-- Build Cohesive Campus Communities
-- Increase Efficiencies Campus-wide
The company's flagship product, CampusCruiser® was launched in 1999. In
recent years, Timecruiser has added CODiE Award-winning, CourseCruiser™
Learning Management System, which assists faculty in efficiently managing
and delivering learning content and resources to students and
CruiserAlert™, an high priority and emergency mass notification system.
Contact Information: FOR MORE INFORMATION: Janet Pinto Director of Marketing 973-244-7856 x 168