Electives – 11 Months

NOT binding.

Determine demand.

Low demand courses cancelled.

The filter bid and the points you assign during it are not definitive or binding. It serves to determine interest in the different courses. This bid will establish which courses should and should not be offered due to insufficient demand.

NOT binding.

Interactive Calendar & Incompatibilities info available.

Results published.

Low demand courses cancelled.

The selection bid and point assignment are not definitive or binding. Since its results are made available for students, its purpose is to provide you with data to be used in the commitment bid, i.e., the minimum and maximum values being attached to each course, number of students interested and number of available spaces.

For this bid, students will be provided with course incompatibilities. Incompatibilities are due to planning restrictions where courses have sessions that overlap with other courses. This makes it impossible for students to enrol in time conflicting classes at the same time. In some cases, an incompatibility can also be due to overlapping content. Should you choose two time-conflicting courses the system will warn you through a pop-up message.

Given that this round is not binding, the ‘Assigned’ column on the ‘Results’ page will have ‘No’ next to all the courses you bid for.

BINDING!

For this round the results of the previous selection bid will be published. This round is definitive and will determine in which courses you will be enrolled. Low demand courses cancelled.

It is extremely important that you review your choices carefully for incompatibilities because, should the system not detect the error beforehand, you will have to choose between the two courses after this bidding process has ended. Should you end up below 60 sessions, you will have to fulfil your session requirement with whichever classes are still open.

Expect incompatibilities. In order for us to be able to offer the amount of electives we do, there will be a high number of incompatibilities. Expect you might not be able to take all the electives you are interested due to this. If you are interested in one or more courses with a high demand, prepare your bid well – and be aware that you might not be able to get all of them.

Please note that auditing is not permitted in the elective period. You will only be able to attend classes for which you are officially signed up.

WHERE DO I BID?

Closer to the bidding date, you will need to access IE Blackboard Ultra > Organizations > Program Information IMBA-ENG15 2023 September > Electives Bid

HOW DO I BID?

Under Electives Bid you will see three tabs:

Courses

Bidding (The name of this Tab will always reflect the current bid; i.e. PreBid; Bidding1 or Bidding 2)

Results or Add/Drop (Results page will be visible during the bidding process only and Add/Drop during the add/drop periods only)

Courses

Under this tab you will see information on the procedures for selecting electives, offered courses in alphabetical order with the corresponing code, professor’s name, video link (if available), PDF of the syllabus, sessions and incompatibilities (available from Selection Bid). The video contains further explanations about the course provided by a professor.

Bidding:

Clicking on the “Bidding” tab will bring you to the screen copied below.

Assign the number of points you wish to bid in the “Points” box on the right. The points you assign will be totalled automatically as you bid until you have reached the maximum number of points and/or sessions available to you.

Incompatibilities

Expect incompatibilities. Incompatibilities are caused by schedule conflict or content overlap.

From the Selection Bid onward, when selecting a course, all electives incompatible with the selected course will be highlighted in grey.

In order for us to be able to offer the amount of electives we do, there will be a high number of incompatibilities. Expect you might not be able to take all the electives you are interested due to this. If you are interested in one or more courses with a high demand, prepare your bid well – and be aware that you might not be able to get all of them. The system will prevent you from bidding for incompatible courses, even if it is only one session conflict. Due to scheduling changes requested by professors, one session conflict may turn into two, three or more sessions.

In the case that you have assigned more than your 1000 points or selected less or more than 60 sessions as required, the system will not allow you to save your bid and following warnings will appear on top of the page.

Once you have finalized this process, click “Save” to ensure that all of your bids have been registered and saved. Following pop-up message will confirm your bid has been saved.

To confirm that everything is correct, exit the page (click on Home) and reenter to make sure that your results were saved.

Status column legend

No Sel./No.Bid: you cannot select or bid for this course as it has separate selection process and students are enrolled manually.

Assigned & Full status appear after the Commitment Bid.

Assigned – you are enrolled in this course

Full – the course is up to capacity. The system will not let you bid for this course.

A couple of hours before the bid closes, the IMBA Team will contact those students whose bid is not recorded in the system. If you receive this e-mail, make sure to check that everything is correct and proceed to save the bid again or contact the IMBA Team for help immediately. 

It is your responsibility to make sure your bid was saved correctly. If for whatever reason your bid does not save, your selection of courses will not be taken into consideration.

Results: 

Results from the selection and commitment bids will be published shortly before the opening of the following bid. Results page reflects only the outcomes of the bids, it does not reflect any changes students do during the add/drop period.

All the electives you bid for will appear in a table (see below) accompanied by the following: the maximum (Max.), minimum (Min.) and average (Avg.) number of points assigned for each course and the amounts you bid for each course (My Bid).  Following the second round of bidding, you will see a “yes” or “no” in the “Assigned” column indicating whether or not you were enrolled in the course.

Note: After the selection bid, the assigned column will be empty (-) since no courses will have been assigned yet.

After the commitment and overflow bids when “selling the electives” (i.e. when the system assigns students to courses based on the number of points they bid with), the system takes couple of hours to update the information on IE Campus. Until the program management does not officially confirm that the results have been published, students will be seeing on IE Campus results from the previous bid.

The “Capacity” column will give you information on the slots for each elective, demand for the courses in the previous bid,  and whether the demand exceeded the spaces available. If the numbers in this column are in green – the demand does not exceed the capacity. However if the numbers are in red – the course is full or the demand exceeds the capacity.

During the add/drop period, you will be able to request changes to your course selection within the space restrictions of the courses, course availability and incompatibilities. Also, please keep in mind that during the 2nd add/drop period you will not be allowed to drop courses starting on October 7th. 

The Add/Drop is also done via the same platform that you bid but under Add-Drop. It is a live platform, therefore works on first-come-first-serve basis. That means, if somebody drops a course that is full, you will see the slot freed on your IE Campus. The first person that that ticks the box under ‘Enrolled’ column gets enrolled into this course. No points are used during the add/drop period.

The courses you are enrolled in, will appear on top and will be ticked under the ‘Enrolled column’ .

If you unclick a course, you automatically lose your slot in that course and another student can sign up for it.

The system will let you know if you fall below or above the 60 sessions.

Incompatible courses will be highlighted in grey and the system will not let you select them.

Status column legend

No Add/Drop–  this course is not available for the add/drop period

Full – the course is up to capacity

The “Capacity” column will give you information on the slots available for each elective: green means there are slots available and red that the course is full.

Please note that the numbers in the capacity column in the picture above are not based on the real bid, but have been randomly assigned for the purposes of developing the app.

You will not be able to add or drop courses outside of the dates established.

Be sure to carefully review the list of incompatibilities. You will find these both on IE Blackboard Ultra under your general September intake page > Electives Bid and in the Electives Index posted on this page.

Courses that reach capacity after the bidding process will NOT be available for adding.  That is, if a course is full, you will only be added to the course if a student previously assigned to the course decides to drop it. In addition, you will not be able to add a class if during the add-drop processing it reaches its full capacity.

You will not be allowed to drop a course if it implies the class size falls below the minimum requirement.

The certificate has been framed as an introduction to Sustainability, allowing you to build a strong foundation.

Electives courses are a component necessary to fulfill the requirments.

Courses available:

BUSINESS BASE OF PYRAMID & IMPACT INVESTING
MARKETING FOR SUSTAINABLE AND SOCIAL-CENTERED COMPANIES
SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND IMPACT INVESTING
SUSTAINABLE FINANCE

Please find the info session here.

Venture Lab Accelerator prepares students to become investor ready. It gives them hands-on experience in the world of high impact entrepreneurship, with the ultimate aim of completing the program with a short list of paying or engaged customers/users of one’s product/service.

This elective course is not part of the bidding process. Those interested in participating must submit their application directly to the Venture Lab team. Instructions on application process can be found in the IMBA Weekly newsletter..

The results of those admitted to Venture Lab Accelerator will be announced by Venture Lab Team the last day of Labs period.

The IMBA team will manually enrol students admitted to Venture Lab after the 2^nd add/drop period closes, therefore admitted students will have to make the necessary adjustments to their electives list during the 2nd add/drop in order to be enrolled in Venture Lab.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE 2^ND ADD/DROP:

1. All the students admitted to Venture Lab must confirm their entrance into Venture Lab to Venture Lab Team.
2. All the confirmed students need to close the 2^ndadd/drop period with a total number of electives sessions equal to 45. When we finally add you to it, your maximum number of sessions cannot be superior to 60 sessions.
3. Students, who were admitted to Venture Lab and who are also enrolled in Knowledge Incubator, will have to drop the latter during the 2^ndadd-drop period. Remember these two courses are incompatible.
4. Please keep in mind that you will receive an automatic pop-up message when you fall below the minimum 60 requirement, but in spite of the message your choices during add/drop will be saved in the system.
5. We recommend you make a screenshot of your final electives to make sure everything is saved by leaving and entering the add/drop platform.
6. Keep in mind that the 2nd add/drop period have certain restrictions in terms of which courses will be available for add/drop (you cannot drop courses starting on October 7th). There are courses that you will only be able to add or drop during this first add-drop period.

You will be enrolled to Venture Lab, provided you follow steps above.

For more information on this option, please contact Annick Janssens