Real-time assessment and accreditation reports in minutes vs. weeks The challenge When Bliss Adkison acquired the role of Associate Director for Academic Affairs and SACSCOC Liaison at the University of North Alabama, the institution had been cited for non-compliance for institutional effectiveness assessment. The institution had a “homegrown” data collection system for its institutional effectiveness reporting, a method, Adkison said, "that was a very clunky, non-transparent data import system." It took Adkison two weeks to create a single report. “It was very manual, using unstructured data from Excel sheets and PDFs,” Adkison said. “There was lots of room for error because someone other than me was interpreting the data.” To track the status of reports, administrators

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