Office of Classroom Management

• Scheduling Team
• The team is busy with fall 2023 class changes! Final exam room requests are being processed as well. 
• Check out the Course Section & Student Modality Dashboard to see up-to-date class modality stats for fall semester. As of publication, on the Twin Cities campus for all careers, we are at 82.66% in-person class sections (that's 8,887 classes); 10.72% are remote or online (1152 classes); and 6.62% are blended (a little in-person and a little online/remote; 712 classes). 
• Spring 2024 class details are still being updated by departments, but we have about 75% of the classes already assigned. We expect that pace to pick up as we roll into late September. 
• CCS will open for department schedulers to start scheduling May/summer 2024 classes at the end of September, so the team is busy with data clean up to prep for summer scheduling. 
• Friendly reminder that you can reserve a general purpose classroom (GPC) for your meeting needs as well! We encourage you to use GPCs when they are not otherwise scheduled for classes. They make great meeting spots if you are on campus. You can log in to Astra directly to submit a room request and use Room Search to see room details.
• Service Team
• Fall semester prep by the numbers:
• 4 new students Classroom Technology Monitors hired this August.
• 130+ technology upgrades completed over the summer - Thanks CTS!
• Congratulations to Noah Holm who was promoted to Service Manager in August! Noah has been with OCM since 2017, and has been instrumental in improving the faculty and student experience in learning spaces. In his new role, he will build on his previous efforts by cultivating a team and creating connections across the University to improve services.
• To build out the team, we are looking to hire a Technology Service Lead (see open position below).
• Operations Team
• OCM has been focusing on right-sizing our classroom inventory capacity-wise. We replaced furniture in over 30 classrooms this summer, including Ford and Vincent Halls, where we decreased capacities for more square-footage per student in the rooms. 
• Other notable projects this summer include furniture and finish replacements in Ford Hall, new furniture in Vincent, and card reader replacements for classrooms in Burton, Murphy, Elliott, Keller, and Smith Halls.
• Classroom Technical Services
• CTS is positioned to support a great start to the fall semester. For the first two weeks of the semester, project work is put on reduced priority to ensure we have staffing capacity available to assist faculty and students who may have challenges working with the audio-video systems. 
• Summer project activity wrapped up last week. Over the past few months, CTS was able to complete approximately 30 large, 75 small, and a few additional miscellaneous projects on the TC Campus despite significant staffing shortages. Working with our partners in OCM, several project schedules were adjusted to balance workload with available resources. Thanks OCM!
• The organization is looking to hire a Senior Electronics Technician/AV Specialist (see open position below).
• In August, CTS began working with a new software support vendor, 3K Technologies, to assist us in managing our business software systems. We’re looking forward to working with our new vendor to bring improved performance and functionality to our systems.