As business school enrollments explode, class sizes are almost bound to increase. Unfortunately, the class sizes making up the most efficient mass sections frequently burn up the instructor's time at an alarming rate. This paper isolates one major time waster associated with large classes and then details the success of a system designed to make it manageable.
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