Statistics – Finding the Easy Button!

An ACEware Webinar

With

Chuck Havlicek Lauri Thompson

Today’s Agenda

• The importance of data

• “ “ “ codes

• Finding them that are & aren’t

• Deadbeat Reports

• Top Dogs!

• Our Favorite Statistical Reports

• Summary & Questions

This Webinar Could Have Been Titled

• Envisioning the Future – Finding Trends by Examining Data

• Data Driven Project Management

• How Statistics Changed My Life

• Inferential Statistics Rock!

You’re probably not psychic and you don’t want to guess . . .

You need Help to spot

trends

You DO have help…

Back to the Drawing board…

•Will

•Way

•Wanda

Good Statistics start with the three W’s

…. Not a WWW… but..

How can I get my staff to capture the data?

• The Hawthorne Effect..

• Shine your little light on me…

Free, New Report just for attending today!

Performance Monitoring / Tracking Code Collection

Deadbeat – Additional Reports

Regs X Creator %age Track

To get your copy, go to www.aceware.com

Student Manager ResourcesReports

(Customer Log-on Required)

It’s all about the codes…

• A Code by any other name….

• Codes on the…– Name Record– Course Record– Registration Record

DEADBEAT REPORTS(Chuck’s favorites!)

Deadbeat Statistical Reports..

AccountingSpecial 1-Reg/1-Line (Deadbeat)

Additional Reports

Half-Life Rept 9-wk (JDI)First Time Enrollee First Course RegistrationLERN Life HistXyr 00-09 Prior Year Growth – YearCode Analyzer

Half-Life

Amount of time prior to course begin date when registrations arrived. Particularly useful for conference planning.

Answers the question: We’re six weeks from the conference – based on years past, how many more registrations can we traditionally anticipate? Or: How bad are pre-registrations (relative to last year) at NN weeks before the program?

First Time Enrollees

Summarizes all registrations and singles out those that are first time enrollees

Answers the question: How many new students did we attract during the time period of ???

First Course Registration

Can we identify seminal courses.. That tend to generate the most follow up registrations

Answers the question: What courses will generate the most long term revenue (through students taking more classes)?

Life History

Given a sample of students (from a quarter, from a class, frome ??), what were their attendance history in the time(s) before and after that sample time frame?

Answers the questions: What was the past registration history of a group? How long are we keeping students around (to enroll in subesequent terms?)

Prior Year Growth ( also by Quarter or Month)

Compares current registrations to previous year(s)

Answers the question: How are we doing this (year? Quarter? Month? ) compared to prior years?

Code Analyzer Uses a combination of JustDoIt and CODEREPT to analyze multiple code groups based on a name criteria (ie: zip code.)

Answers the question: What are the characteristics (based on selected Codes.) of particular geographic/demographic groups. Ie: Would an Italian Cooking course have enough interest on the north side of Kansas City?

…. For the Advanced Statistics Guru…

Name Statistical Reports (Including Top Dog)

Statistics Names

Demographic SummaryPerformance Summary

TOP DOGS!

Top Dog Names (& Firms!)

Reports / Statistics / Names / Performance Sorting

Can be sorted by• Money• Courses Taken• CEUs Earned• Class Hours• Credits Earned

Top Dog Courses

Reports / Statistics / Course / Performance Sorting

Can be sorted by• Total Due• Total Paid• Outstanding Balance• Net Income

Demographic SummariesReports / Demographics / Names / Demographic Summary

Statistical Reports:

Why would you run demographic summaries?

• To determine # of students with specific interest codes

• How far are your students traveling?• Should you put a stack of free brochures in the

library in the next county?

Course Data SummariesReports / Statistics / Course /

Course Data Summary

Why would you run course data summaries?

• In what types of courses were your registrations?

• Which coordinator is running the most profitable courses?

• Course capacity• Do classes make more often on Monday or

Saturday?

Participants

Statistics / Tracking Code

Reports / Statistics / Tracking Code (Brochure)

Answers the question: How well did a specific marketing effort succeed?

Let us not forget . . .

A chain will break at it’s weakest link.

Find and fix your weakest link to improve the overall strength of your program

Questions? Comments?

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