Build your expertise. Earn your certification.
Prerequisite: Prior completion of the Essential Scheduling: Administration Certification is required.
This July, invest in your professional development with the Ad Astra Summer Certification Series—a collection of live, instructor-led training programs designed to help you deepen your product knowledge and gain practical skills you can immediately apply at your institution.
Led by Ad Astra's implementation consultants, each certification combines hands-on instruction, real-world best practices, and interactive learning in a dedicated training environment. Upon successful completion, you'll earn an official Ad Astra Certification recognizing your expertise.
All sessions are on Tuesday afternoons, 2:30 - 3:30 pm Central.
1. Choose Your Certification Track
Ad Astra clients may choose ONE certification track for this summer series. Seats are limited and will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis.
Essential Scheduling: Admin |
Smart Academic Scheduling: Hands-on Scheduling & Analysis |
Essential Scheduling: Advanced Events |
Room Optimization |
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Sign-up for this certification.
A MUST for campus power users, this certification provides the know-how required to effectively maintain and optimize the Ad Astra platform.
Participants will develop a deep understanding of how system settings influence academic, room, and event scheduling processes in order to become their institution’s go-to resource for ensuring seamless system support and performance. |
Sign-up for this certification.
This certification is designed to build practical, hands-on skills for creating efficient, student-centered academic schedules. Participants will work directly in Ad Astra to analyze scheduling data, identify opportunities, and implement informed, data-driven decisions.
Through applied exercises and real-world scenarios, attendees will optimize course offerings, classroom utilization, and faculty assignments to better support student success and institutional performance. |
*Requires pre-requisites: Essential Scheduling: Admin Sign-up for this certification.
Created for Events users, this certification deepens expertise in advanced platform functionality—equipping participants to support more efficient, scalable, and strategic events operations.
Attendees will gain applied experience with complex workflows, strengthen their approach to real-world scheduling scenarios, and explore peer-informed strategies institutions use to maximize the value of the Events software. |
Sign-up for this certification.
Designed for academic administrators, this certification builds practical expertise in strategically and efficiently assigning rooms at scale. Participants will gain applied experience setting optimization parameters, running the optimizer, and interpreting results within Ad Astra.
Through guided exercises and best practices, attendees will develop room optimization strategies that improve space utilization and strengthen institutional scheduling outcomes. |
2. Attend all Four Session Dates
To earn your certification, you must attend all four one-hour sessions, weekly on Tuesdays from July 14 - August 4. There is also an optional orientation session on July 7. Specific session times are posted on the individual sign up pages, emails and Zoom invites.
3. Complete your Certification Assessments
After each session, you'll receive a short assessment via Zoom. Complete all four to earn your certification at the end of the series!
