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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.

 

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Ad Astra's Smart Scheduling™ difference

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All Scheduling, One Platform

Leverage automatically-generated schedule templates from your plan that create scheduling guardrails for academic departments.

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Smart Academic Workflows

Ensure students can follow their pathway without being blocked by unintended barriers in the course schedule.

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Student Success Alignment

Analyze academic program contribution to margin and financial sustainability. Implement targeted strategies to improve the .

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Unified Intelligence

Analyze your faculty capacity to support enrollments in your various academic programs.

Serving 550+ institutions with 4M+ students since 1996

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ACADEMIC SCHEDULING

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

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EVENT SCHEDULING

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

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INSTITUTIONAL INTELLIGENCE

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

Dashboard view of annual planning recommendations for course completion and scheduling.

Why do institutions choose
Ad Astra?

Software Capabilities

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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.

Learn how institutions just like yours are achieving their outcomes with smarter planning and scheduling solutions.
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WVNCC

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.

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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.

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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.  

Ready to learn more about how Ad Astra can help you streamline processes and achieve a student-centered schedule?

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