When universities thought through how to handle course scheduling in the age of social distancing a...

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When universities thought through how to handle course scheduling in the age of social distancing a wide variety of ideas came to the surface. For example, some schools changed 2 semester programs to become 4 semester programs to be able to reduce the number of students on campus at a given time. Some changed from having three 3-hour class blocks on the daily schedule to having 5 - 2 hour blocks. The driving force behind these changes was to have fewer students in a classroom at one time. Some administrators were annoyed when OM faculty reported that basic results from OM including Little's law might make these ideas less attractive than they look at first blush. Consider a single classroom that holds 40 students. If it was decided that the room would only be able to handle 15 students how would you adjust scheduling to maximize the number of students served? Feel free to comment on related issues such as quality, revenue, and expected responses from faculty and students When universities thought through how to handle course scheduling in the age of social distancing a wide variety of ideas came to the surface. For example, some schools changed 2 semester programs to become 4 semester programs to be able to reduce the number of students on campus at a given time. Some changed from having three 3-hour class blocks on the daily schedule to having 5 - 2 hour blocks. The driving force behind these changes was to have fewer students in a classroom at one time. Some administrators were annoyed when OM faculty reported that basic results from OM including Little's law might make these ideas less attractive than they look at first blush. Consider a single classroom that holds 40 students. If it was decided that the room would only be able to handle 15 students how would you adjust scheduling to maximize the number of students served? Feel free to comment on related issues such as quality, revenue, and expected responses from faculty and students