Cardonex offers a unique and effective approach to balancing and leveling classes through a process known as seat count leveling, which ensures that class sizes remain within an optimal range, aligned with district staffing ratios. Here’s how it works:

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1. Automated Seat Count and Leveling

• Real-time Tracking: As sections (referred to as "chips") are placed on the scheduling board, Cardonex automatically tracks the number of students assigned to each course and grade level. This automatic tally helps schedulers stay on top of the distribution of students without needing to manually calculate enrollments.

• Seat Availability: The system continuously keeps track of how many seats are available for each grade level, ensuring that no section is overfilled or underfilled. This data is available to schedulers in real time, making it easy to adjust and balance courses as needed.

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2. Balancing Class Sizes Within District Parameters

• +/- 10% Class Size Target: Cardonex aims to maintain class sizes within +/- 10% of the district's target ratio across the entire day for each subject. For example, if a district's target is a 25:1 student-to-teacher ratio, the system ensures that class sizes are kept between 22 and 28 students for each course, helping to avoid extreme disparities.

• Efficient Section Placement: As schedulers add sections to the board, Cardonex helps them balance the distribution of students across all sections. 

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3. Support and Guidance

• Expert Assistance: The Cardonex team provides valuable support to schedulers, guiding them through the best practices for placing sections effectively. We teach how to distribute sections across the day in such a way that maintains balance while minimizing over- or under-enrollment in any one section.

• Balanced Scheduling: By providing guidance on how to strategically place chips (sections) on the scheduling board, we help ensure that classes stay within the targeted size ranges. This results in an even distribution of students across courses, which prevents overcrowded or under-utilized classes.

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4. Minimizing Variance Across the Day

• Consistent Class Sizes: Cardonex's approach ensures that there is minimal variance in class sizes across the day. The goal is to prevent scenarios where one class is overly large and another is too small. This consistency helps avoid issues like teacher overloads or the underuse of teaching staff.

• Day-wide Balancing: By tracking student enrollments across the entire day, Cardonex helps schedulers keep the overall balance of class sizes consistent, rather than just focusing on individual periods. This holistic approach ensures that students and teachers are evenly distributed across all sections, maintaining equity in educational resources.

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5. Unique Capability

• Not Available in Other Systems: This seat count leveling process is a unique feature of Cardonex, which is not commonly found in other SMS/SIS platforms. Most systems do not have the capability to automatically track and adjust class sizes in real time, making Cardonex’s approach stand out as an advanced, more efficient way to manage course enrollments and ensure compliance with district staffing guidelines.

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Cardonex helps districts balance and level classes by automatically tracking student enrollments, offering real-time insights into class sizes, and ensuring that all sections stay within the district’s desired student-to-teacher ratio, typically within a 10% margin. With guidance from Cardonex trainers, schedulers can strategically place course sections to ensure that student demand is met efficiently, without the risk of overcrowded or underfilled classes. This unique feature of seat count leveling sets Cardonex apart from other systems and makes it a powerful tool for optimizing class sizes and staffing distribution.