A Live View of the Round, Not Just the Final Number
At any point while a round is open, an authority can see how many students sit at each stage of this funnel, not just a final count once everything’s done. A large gap between “documents verified” and “choices locked,” for instance, is a visible signal that students are stalling at a specific step, while the round is still open to actually do something about it.Seat Fill Tracking, by Category and Institute
Beyond the student-side funnel, an authority can see how seats are filling in real time, broken down by category and by institute. This is what makes it possible to notice, mid-round, that a specific category or a specific institute is under-filling, instead of only discovering it once the round has already closed and the options for fixing it have narrowed.Alerts, When Something Actually Needs Attention
An allocation run fails
If a run doesn’t complete successfully, the authority is alerted within roughly 60 seconds, not left to notice a missing result on their own.
The verification queue backs up
If genuinely uncertain documents are piling up faster than reviewers are clearing them, an alert flags it before it turns into a bottleneck at the deadline.
A deadline is approaching with a large gap remaining
If a meaningful share of registered students haven’t locked their choices as a deadline nears, the authority sees this ahead of time, not after the window has already closed.
Comparing This Round Against the Last One
Every round leaves behind the same kind of data: how long verification took, how many grievances came in, how close the fill rate got to full capacity. Seeing this round next to the last one is what actually makes each cycle easier to run than the one before it, an authority can tell whether a change they made, like adjusting a deadline or adding reviewers, actually helped.Everything visible here is a view into what’s happening, not a control over it. Actually pausing, extending, or correcting a round is covered next, on Operational Controls.