Uncover the real stories behind ExPrep's grading solutions in action. From time savings to improved student engagement, our users share their experiences.
Professor Butz wanted to get students hands-on experience with Excel. He wanted to revamp old assignments, but grading and file management was a huge burden. As a result, Professor Butz spent an average of 300 hours per semester grading assignments.
Professor Allen noticed students needed to catch up on essential course topics because they spent most of their time trying to learn how to use Microsoft Excel versus adapting financial concepts into their assignments. He realized he needed to teach the fundamentals of Microsoft Excel before diving too deep into his curriculum.
Professor Lester has been using Excel in his classroom since the start of his career. He understood the value Microsoft Excel holds in the workforce and wanted to prepare his engineering students with the essential skills needed to succeed in their future endeavors.
Professor Peyton was spending countless hours manually grading spreadsheet assignments for over 200 of his management students. Many students were also getting caught cheating and were left not knowing the course material. After searching for a tool to alleviate this pain point, Professor Peyton discovered ExPrep.
Professors in the MBA program noticed that many students lacked the essential Excel skills needed in specific courses. After surveying all the professors, Makarewycz reached out to ExPrep to create a custom Excel training course for students in the master's programs.
Professor Brown needed to find a solution for the hours he would spend grading spreadsheet assignments. Since introducing ExPrep into his curriculum, Professor Brown can completely automate his Financial Modeling course and assign over 100 projects and assignments per student each semester.
Professor Greenhood wanted more from the homework material she was offering students. She understood her students needed to supplement their accounting skills with additional Microsoft Excel training – as many corporate recruiters complained that students lacked crucial Excel skills once entering the workforce.
Professor Bertram was searching for a tool to help facilitate his Microsoft Excel exams and quizzes for his Investment Banking courses. Bertram knew his students needed a grading platform to handle their complex Excel quizzes and exams.
Professor Nunnelley's Intro to Operations Curriculum requires students to learn fundamental analytical skills, and Microsoft Excel is a vital tool in teaching these skills. However, grading these Excel assignments required Nunnelley and her TAs to hand grade hundreds of student assignments.
The Masters Professional Accounting (MPA) department utilized a Publisher platform to facilitate their Microsoft Excel course and would complain about the need for better customer service and communication between the platform and the department.
Professor Erik Ford graded assignments using macros to run large batch files, causing complications for students and himself. While looking for the solution, he discovered ExPrep.
The curriculum didn’t include enough information on Microsoft Excel, so the professors on campus needed to update course content, knowing that Excel skills were essential in the current job market.
Students needed proper Microsoft Excel knowledge for their higher-level courses. Students were forgetting the skills they had already acquired in previous courses and needed to relearn important material.
Assigning homework, projects, and grading assignments for 200+ students was not as efficient and consistent for Professor Chaney's standard. Hired TAs to assist with grading and experienced inconsistency with grading.
Chapel Hill Accounting Professor wanted to provide students with a more updated version of their coursework and transfer assignments to Excel. This caused her to spend an average of 30 minutes grading just one 15-tab Excel project, and having upwards of 70 files made a grading nightmare for Professor Knoll.
Instructor Bailey sought to incorporate Excel in her accounting classroom because she believed it was an essential tool for her students to know. She spent time creating and grading Excel assignments while teaching and grading her accounting curriculum.
