Drury University saves hours on assessment with Planning & Self-Study The challenge Paper-based systems for assessments and program reviews created huge delays in data collection for Marline Faherty, Director of Academic Affairs, Support Services at Drury University. "I spent a huge amount of time reminding people about deadlines.” Then, to make things worse, faculty would submit data in Excel, Word, or PDFs. "It was hard to work with this data," Faherty said. "We had to do it all manually." On top of this, faculty used inconsistent grading criteria. "We'd have to try to curate all that and create a score sheet," Faherty said. Spotty data collection in previous years posed another challenge. "We had leadership changes over the years," Faherty said. "One person would do i

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