Implementing Smart Academic Scheduling Tactics

Academic scheduling is more than building a calendar—it’s a coordinated effort across leadership, departments, and scheduling operations. But without a clear way to transform strategy into tactics, your schedule might end up with inefficiencies and barriers to student progress.

In this session, we’ll explore practical ways to operationalizing a unified annual scheduling workflow. You’ll learn how to translate academic priorities into smart processes, use data to guide decisions, and keep scheduling on track from initial planning through final build.

Through Ad Astra's AI-powered scheduling platform, we’ll show how institutions are putting these tactics into practice—connecting workflows, optimizing space, and using demand insights to build more effective schedules.

You’ll walk away with:

• Practical tips to coordinate scheduling across teams and departments
• Solutions to align course offerings with space, course demand, and student outcomes
• A clearer path to implementing a more structured, data-informed scheduling process