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Hello All! I am Dave Schwantes, I am a new Adjunct Professor at Shenandoah University in Winchester, VA and will be teaching Project Management in the upcoming Spring Semester (night job). In my day job I am a PMI certified Project Manager since 2009 and currently a Senior Program Manager leading software development and IT Infrastructure projects for a Federal Government Agency. I am brand new to Smartsheet! I am most familiar with MS Project (eww that other PM tool) however SU is an all Apple school so needed to find a PM tool that plays nice with MacOS, easily accessible for students, and easy to learn. That is what led me to Smartsheet.

• Where do you work and what’s your department/role?
  • Shenandoah University - Adjunct Professor
• How long have you been using Smartsheet?
  • Been exploring SS for 1 month
• How are you using Smartsheet today or planning to in the future?
  • Planning to use Smartsheet as the goto online PM tool for students. Using it as a tool to actually set up a sample project and help students learn about Project Management.
• What else would you like to learn from your peers in the education industry?
  • I see a lot of real life applications of Smartsheet in the comments here, however I am Interested to know if there are others in this Community using Smartsheet as a tool to train students. What types of exercises did you use in your teaching, what has been the experience of your students in learning Smartsheet?

broctawn

Hello from Idaho State University. I work in the Academic Affairs umbrella and have used Smartsheet for many years. I have built systems with sheets, automation, and dashboards to track tutoring usage, peer mentoring contacts, and created a system to track adjunct pay for dual-enrollment instructors and send a letter to them using the document creation feature. I nerd out over designing solutions to labor-intensive tasks by implementing automation, writing complex formulas, and building dashboards to deliver the info in a clean, usable manner.