 All right welcome back So if you have any questions or anything just text those in and we'll try to answer those But first what I wanted to do is even I wanted to go through and explain some of the CFX the comprehensive final exam So Arthur if you can switch the slides, let me know when we're over there The CFX the reason why we put the CFX in place is because we wanted to have something to make sure that everyone understood everything You know if you've done these classes over two years Then you have it's a chance for you to really bring everything together And so the objective here is really all about making sure you retain some of the critical knowledge So it's the final requirement the MicroMasters credential and supply chain management And it hopefully is focused on your ability to synthesize and to apply the learnings So it's really looking at the bigger picture of things So as you can see what we have for the framework we have these five online courses and Unfortunately this first class you will hopefully be the only Cohort that hasn't taken this in sequential order because most of you took one then two Then three then zero and then four hopefully people will start coming through The normal progression where zero one and two or more the analytical model based to flips and starts being more Qualitative through three and four so it's kind of a Design to be taken in sequence, but the end of the day the comprehensive final exam is there to make sure that everyone Understands and can apply all the different things that they learned across the five courses. So that's the objective It's we used to call it a capstone We changed the name because when a student comes to MIT They might be doing a capstone project and we didn't want to make those two similar So it's a comprehensive final exam and the comprehensive is the key word it covers everything that we've talked about And I want to add that this is a requirement before earning the micro master credentials So you need to complete and pass the comprehensive final exam in order to have the micro master credential And as opposed to the other five courses I said we prefer those courses be taken sequence We don't enforce it because it's your schedule permits. Maybe you take three before you take two That's okay. We don't recommend it, but we're not going to stop you for the comprehensive final exam You cannot take the comprehensive final exam until you have passed under verified status all five courses Period no exceptions. Yes, you need to take them all It's an important piece of it and I wanted to make sure that you have all of those before So it's meant to be done after you've taken and passed all five courses Okay, and it's not of course. It's not it's just to assess your knowledge in the five previous courses Okay, so the cost and the requirements just build up the whole slide So again to get the verified you have to have the verified the certificate in the five courses And you can only take it as a fully verified student There will be an audit track for CFX though. It's not so some people if they want to audit There will be an audit version. Remember. Yes. Yes, so but to take this as a verified student to get the CFX Certificate you have to do it as a verified student There will be an audit and there will be much quicker questions because if someone wants to audit it and just learn a little bit That's fine. They'll be very different tests. Okay, and so for the audit one We will eventually start using last year's the previous year's tests This is the first one. We'll just use a sampling of simple questions But for you guys who want to take it for verified status, you need to make sure using the same username It's going to cost six hundred dollars and I'll explain why in a few minutes and you need to be ID verified It's really critical because again the other thing this is doing is stopping any chance of mixed identities And so we want to make sure that the same person who's taking this exam is the person who's taken the previous courses That's really one of the objectives there So what is the exam? Originally, we're you know, if you've taken like I'm a professional engineer and so I've taken my Certification test you guys have probably taken GREs or SAT some kind of standardized tests. They're usually one day eight hours We couldn't do that for everyone across the world because we made it that we wanted to make sure everyone had access to this Just like they do for the MOOCs. So that's why we went and did the virtual It's a virtual option that we expect most students to do and I think 80% of the students are registering to do it virtually So because we want to have both physical proctored and virtually proctored We have to set the restrictions or design it in a certain way and that is we couldn't have it any longer In about two hours because after about two hours you might need to get up and leave the room and doing that as a verified It just causes all sorts of problems. So therefore we said two two-hour exams So the first one will be more like the graded assignments that you've had in the midterms and finals From zero one and two it'll be can you use the models? You know which model to use when and so kind of the bigger pictures We're thinking about the synthesis here The second exam and you have to finish the first one before you take the second one is more advanced And it's think of more of those case studies those micro or mini case studies that we've introduced So more can you apply some of those qualitative things? So you want to test both things the tests are each two hours long And you have to take both of them within 12 hours and the reason for that is just to be fair for the people taking it physically Because they will come into one of our six locations Spend two hours in the morning they get to eat lunch two hours in the afternoon and then they're done So they will actually be taking them in a span of about six to eight hours But we wanted to say to be fair We want to make sure that all the students take it within a span of 12 and we have all these different FAQs out there for any additional questions Please go to that if you have more questions or email us and we'll try to answer them and keep adding to the FAQ It's our first time running this. It's the first time that the edX has done so many virtually proctored Students for one of these exams So, you know first time you guys should be used to being pioneers by now because we've done a lot of firsts For edX and this is just another one of them But we think it's the best way to make sure that everyone across the world and all 190 plus countries that we operate in Has an access to a fair exam All right, so let's go to the timeline So we picked a weekend so we picked 72 hours that this will be happening So the virtual proctoring will stop start at 1500 hours UTC on Friday 19 May and close at 1500 hours on May 22nd, which is a Monday No exceptions no extensions. Please. Don't even ask Because we cannot move these it's very precise the way we're doing this if you're taking it physically And you've registered for that you need to let us know ahead of time, of course Then that's going to happen on Saturday May 20th in each of the locations in three separate time zones and so Can go to the next so hopefully you've seen this already and you've picked if you're going to do the physical proctoring That you can see the locations Yeah, there we go. Okay, so Cambridge Zaragoza Spain Bogota, Colombia Shalom, which is outside Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Luxembourg and then Ningbo China We're gonna be monitoring those and physically proctoring. I'll be here all of us here We'll be at the Cambridge one because we'll have about a hundred students I think we physically proctoring we want the students have the exact same experience virtually as physically So we'll try to treat those all the same. You'll be using your own laptop. You'll be using online the same edX platform the same questions Anything else about the actual test? The only thing is you need to fill the form before April 12th in order to choose your favorite option And we will try our best Assigning you to the locations. Yeah, it looks I was pleasantly surprised. I was hoping that we'd have a hundred percent virtual But about 80 85% virtual that's pretty good That's I think it's a new technology people aren't as comfortable with it yet But I was happy to see it a higher number We're worried that we'd have 800 people coming to MIT. So I'm kind of glad you're not coming I'm glad it's being virtual. Okay relevant dates. The pre-registration closes and will hold you to this April 14th will confirmation. It will confirm your placement edX will notify you will make sure you're enrolled the next week the 21st We'll verify that you're in there and make sure ID verified and so the verification ends on May 3rd So at that point no one else can come in and we want to make sure that everything is set Because this what this is very important and this is why this test costs so much for a couple reasons One is it's going to be made from scratch every year So that's takes a lot of effort a lot of work the second is all this verification process takes a lot of additional effort as well So this is a very intricate dance that we're doing to have five live proctored tests as well as this virtual one over 72-hour period so then the actual proctoring will happen May 19th to the 21st as we said before Yeah, I want to add we will enroll you in the courses, but you need to verify yourself So this you need to go the typical process verify and verify your identity So we are going to enroll you in the course that the second part you need to do by yourself. We cannot verify So then The the other thing that we've started doing is the portal So we're hoping that you're using this and it's actually required We want to make sure you're in the portal because now what you guys take the CFX you're part of it Community and so we're trying to build more that and having the portal that's the main reason It's there it's a way for us to keep in contact and you to keep in contact with each other Because many of you have taken classes in different sequences and different runs, but you're all together in the single cohort So it's an easier way for us to work with you and for you to contact each other And hopefully this community will grow more This is what Arthur's job is to really grow this community and I think you'll get a lot of value out of it But it's required for you to do so if you want to take the CFX Yeah, and we are going to use the portal as the main way to communicate with you about any details About the comprehensive final exam. So that's why it's mandatory that you are part of this board Okay, so where are you guys from pretty much everywhere? And so it's about these are the people who passed or are on track to pass all five courses And so it's about 12 to 1,300 depending on right right right in there. Yeah, and so you can see the majority is still the US But they're you know Brazil Spain India China. There's still big numbers there. We're all spread out That's why we have to do the virtual we can't have Testing centers in each of these different locations But we're talking in Boston in Spain. So we're hitting one two three four four comments. Yeah, that's pretty good Okay, so what will you need for the exam? So with everything the government issued ID if you've been using the same one It's a lot easier to use the same one when you could show up physical proctoring as well If you're physically proctoring you're still gonna have to show that ID They'll probably take a picture of you still okay, so that just be prepared for that You have to bring your computer so that obviously has to be a laptop. I highly recommend not just bringing a iPad Because you might need more than that. I know some of you taking it with the iPad once convenient You can we won't restrict it, but jerry laptops preferred Even people for physical in in person proctoring have to bring their own wireless and their own laptop and it has to have wireless capability You will also have a PDF of the complete key concept documents for all five courses What we're trying to do is to make one available online for you. You can't bring it in in hard copy-papering Right. No, we tried to figure out a way for this But there's no way for us to verify that someone hasn't written in different notes are cheated And if it's done virtually or even it's done fixually because We've seen that the key concept document now is how many pages it's hundreds of pages now And so we're not going to physically check each one However, we'll have a PDF for it available for you online and we'll release that one as soon as we're done compiling it So you'll all have the same Common document and then you can use either Excel or Libra office. You won't need any other software We're not going to make you do simulations Doing anything else trust me. We're not making we're not going to test on your ability to remember How do you run ample or sass? We're testing you on the concepts. So you might need Excel or Libra office That's fine. No Google Sheets because you can communicate with other people with it And so this is all you'll need very much. It's better than a closed book. We wanted to have the key concept doc Our other option was to have no materials. You'll also have a sheet of paper. We'll allow you to have a sheet of paper Both sides sheet of paper Okay, do not forget to scan when you are scanning the room you need to go through the sheet of paper and show both sides. Yeah All right. Yeah, so What's next after this? What's next a Apply for the validity program About that. Yeah, the next step Once you complete that you are going to if you pass the comprehensive analysis You are going to earn the micro master credential in supply chain management It's a standalone certificate or you can use to apply for a blended program a master degree program here at MIT or at other universities so The process is the application is already open those that are interested you can apply To this blending program with your certificate A questions we received some questions. Let's go to the questions. Okay, go to the next one Okay, yeah, okay, so we go back to live them. Yeah, let's do that. All right, okay So the next a CFX when it's going to happen May 2018 No, no, it'll be wait for that It'll be probably January early February the way We're going to do the CFX the way that it makes sense and guys It's the first time we've run it so any feedback, please let us know it takes a lot of effort to create one of these So we're not going to do them every month Eventually long term will do them twice a year. It'll usually be done within a month of C SC 4x finishing right because we're encouraging people to make that the last course you take it makes sense Right you do that TFC simulation You kind of wrap things up and we try to synthesize you see more case studies So within one to two months of every time we finished SC 4x There will be a CFX so next run of SC 4x Starts in the fall of 2017. It finishes. I think right before Christmas of 2017 And so then in probably early January or late January early February We'll have the CFX the next one. We will publish that date within the next two months So we'll nail that down after that the next one will be done in the fall of 2018 so pretty much have a spring and a fall It will be the times that these are run and we're timing those again So it's after the SC 4x finishes, but also hopefully it fits in time with admissions cycles This one because of the timing that we had to do is very late in the process So we're actually extending the admissions process for the blended program But in future years, we'll be taking this a little earlier in the spring Makes sense makes sense What else? And about the cost they are asking about the if the price of the CFX is going to increase and also the The cost of the each Certificate in each course. We're getting a lot of pressure from edX to actually increase the cost We're trying to keep it constant and we certainly kept a constant for this first cycle I don't see anything in the pipeline for an increase. I don't see one But you know, you never know since the time I've been here at MIT tuition has increased that MIT It's almost doubled in the last 15 years. So prices 10 10 increase There's a lot of effort though to try to keep it very low cost for everyone across the world But I don't see a price increase anytime soon. Yeah, people are asking if they can have an invoice for the Registration for the verification fee. No, the answer is no, unfortunately. I don't that x doesn't do it Doesn't do it. So complain to edX. Yes. This is out of our scope unfortunately. So yeah The key concept document divided in courses or offer us one solid document what I want to do is have it as one I don't know if we can do it because it gets massive. So we're trying to figure that out That's what's taking us a little time. We're testing to see what works Yeah, because it becomes massive because we put so many pictures in and everything So I don't know yet. Hopefully it'll just be one because then you can use the search function Right, that's what we really want to do is make it so as easily searchable and we want to get it out to you Way in advance I don't want it to be that the first time you see this is during the test and it won't change that much from the One that have been developed But as you guys know if anyone took se1x in 2014 you didn't have a document, right? So and then the 2015 run it's changed since then and so it's it's all changed and morphed a little bit Since we had the runs. That's why I want one standard one instead of the different versions that have been produced We have a question from Odezochi. When do we find out our preference for MIT as a physical testing? We are going to inform you on April 14th. So the deadline for the to fill the form is April 12th By April 14, we will send you a note informing about this to be honest. It's looking very easy We we have capacity. I can't imagine us closing unless a sudden 500 people suddenly switch their minds But right now we're tracking about a hundred and twenty not even that yet. So it should be fine. Yeah All right, any other questions? But then let's come back to the to wrap up until yeah, okay, okay so If you have any other questions about CFX Anything about the micro masters that blended, please let us know and we'll try to answer them for you Any suggestions you have for anything that we're doing we're very open for suggestions We don't always listen to we don't always follow them But we'll take them as a suggestion because we're always have the same goal as you do is to make the course better more educational and More valid. I guess I want to say thank you Thank you for all the feedback already received. This always helped us to improve. Thank you also to the team This is a team effort. There are a lot of people behind this this program So I really want to say thank you to the post office work to our community manager TAs and community TAs Thank you to all because this is really a team effort Any question regarding to the comprehensive final exam? Please send an email to CFX help at MIT dot edu Thank you so much. Yeah, good luck with the with the Final exam in SC4x and the comprehensive final exam. Thanks a lot to everyone. Thank you