Smarter Scheduling™ that helps students graduate
Ad Astra's all-in-one scheduling platform enables institutions to plan better, accelerate student progress and operate more efficiently.
Ad Astra's Smart Scheduling™ difference
All Scheduling, One Platform
Leverage automatically-generated schedule templates from your plan that create scheduling guardrails for academic departments.
Smart Academic Workflows
Ensure students can follow their pathway without being blocked by unintended barriers in the course schedule.
Student Success Alignment
Analyze academic program contribution to margin and financial sustainability. Implement targeted strategies to improve the .
Unified Intelligence
Analyze your faculty capacity to support enrollments in your various academic programs.
Serving 550+ institutions with 4M+ students since 1996
Plan course offerings and schedule sections more efficiently
✔ Build annual or term-by-term schedules
✔ Mitigate course bottlenecks
✔ Assign spaces and faculty to sections
✔ Manage workflows across users and departments
Manage campus events from request to clean-up
✔ Administer event requests and approvals
✔ Share public registrations and calendars
✔ Send and track invoices
✔ Collect revenue from event payments
Proactively plan for student and program success
✔ Analyze student success metrics
✔ Receive AI-generated recommendations
✔ Unblock students in their pathways
✔ Guide course planning and schedule building
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Software Capabilities |
Basic Room Schedulers | |
| ACADEMIC SCHEDULING | ||
| Course and section scheduling | ✅ | Can be limited |
| Customizable academic workflows | ✅ | ❌ |
| Single-term and annual scheduling | ✅ | ❌ |
| Historical enrollment and demand forecast data | ✅ | ❌ |
| Room assignment tools | ✅ | ✅ |
| Data-informed faculty assignment | ✅ | ❌ |
| Space management and reporting | ✅ | ✅ |
| Active registration monitoring | ✅ | ❌ |
| EVENT SCHEDULING | ||
| Public event requests and space booking | ✅ | ✅ |
| Customizable request forms | ✅ | Can be limited |
| Collect payments via Stripe | ✅ | ✅ |
| Create, send and track invoices | ✅ | Can be limited |
| Mobile friendly access and event updates | ✅ | ❌ |
| Conflict-checking with academics | ✅ | ✅ |
| Public calendar links, embeds and API access | ✅ | Can be limited |
| Event email notifications | ✅ | ✅ |
| ANALYTICS AND INTELLIGENCE | ||
| Future demand forecasting | ✅ | ❌ |
| Industry benchmarking | ✅ | ❌ |
| Drop-fail-withdrawal reporting | ✅ | ❌ |
| Momentum Year and Degree Velocity insights | ✅ | ❌ |
| Simulated student registrations | ✅ | ❌ |
| Time conflict heatmaps | ✅ | ❌ |
| Space management and reporting | ✅ | ✅ |
| Active registration monitoring | ✅ | ❌ |
| Faculty capacity forecasts | ✅ | ❌ |
| Pathway alignment dashboards | ✅ | ❌ |
| Financial margin estimates | ✅ | ❌ |
| Student and financial impact metrics | ✅ | ❌ |
Success Stories
550+ institutions. 4.5 million students. And counting.
Course fill rate jumped from 49.5% in Fall 2018 to 62.6% in Fall 2021.
Learn how West Virginia Northern Community College improved institutional financial sustainability through the power of data.
Strategic Academic Planning: Supporting Student Success
Listen to postsecondary academic planning experts as they discuss their observations and experiences working with institutional leaders to create an environment that promotes student success.
Planning Schedules for the Future
Advising and registration are complex, and long-term planning is understandably a daunting subject for many institutions. The off-season can be the perfect time to take a step back and determine plans for improvement – such as the introduction of an annual schedule – to create a direct impact on the regular season.
