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Syllabus Geeks Streamline Workflow With Reporting

The latest Concourse™ upgrade makes light work of burdensome but critical administrative tasks

Troy, NY, December 5, 2011 Intellidemia announces its most significant upgrade to Concourse, the online syllabus solution, with the introduction of syllabus audit and content reporting. This key innovation uses structured syllabus data to instantly generate comprehensive reports from syllabus content, course-level activities, and workflow status. The institute-wide administrative savings gained from Concourse Reporting is unparalleled.

Automated syllabus reporting was aimed at benefiting the already time constrained academic administrator. The addition of reporting reduces workflow, simplifies the tedious task of auditing syllabi, and improves course outcome and activity tracking from semester to semester.

"Schools continue to dedicate more time, more resources, and place a greater emphasis on meeting specialized accreditation standards like ACBSP. They need a solution that would give administrators the ability to easily search, approve, and report on syllabi across their entire institution," said Judd Rattner, CEO of Intellidemia. "Our clients made an appeal that Concourse further simplify the accreditation process through an automated feature. We were driven to help our clients uphold the highest standards of academic excellence and ensuring consistency was accomplished with the development of Item and Audit reporting."

The latest upgrade includes two distinct and powerful reporting categories, Item and Audit. With Concourse Reporting, a user, in two clicks, can generate a comprehensive summary and chart from the status of syllabus evaluation process and syllabus content including:

According to a report published by the Syllabus Institute, the average academic administrator spends more than 50 hours per academic year auditing syllabi and an average of four hours per semester hunting faculty down for their up-to-date syllabi.

Audit Reporting grants a Department Chair or Academic Administrator the ability to generate a detailed report regarding the status and activity of every syllabus in a given school, department, or across the entire institution. Concourse course Audit Reporting can save schools thousands of dollars in time alone.

Jamie Green, director of eLearning and Outreach at North Idaho College remarked, "Reporting is a major enhancement to the Concourse system. I can immediately identify three application areas that would serve our entire North Idaho College community: program reviewing, textbook usage and ordering, and from a student services prospective, students can easily use the schedule item report to capture their assignment across all of their courses in a single agenda."

Academic administrators can take further advantage of Concourse through Item level Reporting. This new and compelling feature provides users with the capability to extract information such as outcomes or textbook information directly from series of syllabi, aggregate that data, and present a user with a table and chart to determine if courses are meeting program and institutional outcomes. Better still, Item Reporting inform the process by granting administrators the ability to map syllabus content such as learning outcomes to specific accreditation standard.

"We have long been organizing and sharing syllabi, and now our users can recall syllabus content in several unique and useful ways that makes reporting and analytics possible." Rattner stated. "Reporting is an extension of our commitment to providing the number one syllabus management system in education."

Concourse is recognized for its robust administrative features including Search, Audit, and Permissions. With the power to swiftly generate reports by audit status and syllabus item, an administrator can effortlessly improve course consistency and ensure academic excellence, further elevating syllabus management with Concourse.

For additional information about Concourse and Reporting, visit www.intellidemia.com.

About North Idaho College

Founded in 1933, North Idaho College is a comprehensive community college located on the beautiful shores of Lake Coeur d'Alene. NIC offers degrees and certificates in a wide spectrum of academic transfer, professional-technical, and general education programs. Approximately 6,300 students are enrolled in credit classes and more than 7,800 participate annually in non-credit courses offered by the Workforce Training Center in Post Falls. The college serves a five-county region through outreach centers in Bonners Ferry, Kellogg, and Ponderay, as well as through an extensive array of Internet and interactive video conferencing courses. NIC also plays a key role in the region's economic development by preparing competent, trained employees for area businesses, industries, and governmental agencies.

About Intellidemia

Intellidemia™, the syllabus geeks and leaders in online syllabus management, partner with schools to streamline workflow and enhance collaboration with smart, bleeding-edge solutions that address accreditation, compliance, and retention. As the experts in syllabus management, Intellidemia supports higher education with Concourse, an easy-to-use to use platform that improves student performance, faculty productivity, and administrative efficiency by getting syllabi online fast, making it easy to organize, share, and analyze course information. Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Troy, NY, Intellidemia maintains the belief in developing technology that will be valuable to the entire academic community. For more information, visit www.intellidemia.com or call 518.444.2060.

Contact

Jennifer Connally
Your Dedicated Syllabus Geek
Intellidemia, Inc.
Telephone: 518.444.2060
Email: jenniferconnally@intellidemia.com

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