ACADEMIC COURSE SCHEDULING SOFTWARE

Build Smart Schedules™ that power student progress

Publish course schedules with Ad Astra, the only end-to-end Academic Scheduling solution that helps students progress to graduation.

✔ Build annual or term-by-term schedules
✔ Mitigate course bottlenecks
✔ Assign spaces and faculty to sections
✔ Manage workflows, roles and permissions

LET'S TALK ABOUT ACADEMICS

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Partners in success since 1996 | Serving 550+ campuses with 4.5M students

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"Ad Astra helps us meet students' needs when building the schedule."

To meet the needs of its diverse student population, the University of Missouri-Kansas City committed to optimizing its course schedule in partnership with Ad Astra. UMKC now efficiently schedules more than 15,000 unique class sections a year.

Registrar Amy Cole says the goal is to ensure students from all backgrounds are able to take courses when, where, and how they need them to graduate on time.

COURSE BUILDING and SECTION EDITING

Manage course sections and campus spaces with one solution for every scheduling need.

Schedule courses and sections in one seamless and efficient experience with an intuitive and visual scheduling grid. Manage building, spaces, faculty and room assignments for an end-to-end scheduling solution.

✔ Scheduling grid and visual scheduling calendars	✔ Filtered schedule views
✔ Section editing and alignment	✔ Room and faculty assignment

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Workflows, Permissions, and Roles

Collaborate on scheduling progress across departments and roles.

Define scheduling workflow phases to efficiently collaborate throughout the schedule building process. Manage permissions and utilize views and filters so that Deans, Chairs, or scheduling stakeholders can quickly find information.

✔ Custom workflow set-up	✔ User groups management
✔ Dynamic permission controls	✔ Collaborative tagging and assignment
✔ Change reason tracking

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HISTORICAL DATA RECOMMENDATIONS

Align course schedules with historical student needs.

Combat bottlenecked course offerings by leveraging recommendations informed by a process that forecasts course demand from historical enrollment patterns. Target change candidates that leverage historical enrollment patterns, improve resource utilization, and minimize disruption.

✔ Historical schedule insights	✔ Section offering recommendations
✔ Schedule refinement reports

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Academic Scheduling

Unblock students from progressing to completion.

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Best for:

+ Course schedule building, faculty assignment, and historical analytics.

Event Scheduling

Forecast faculty needs to plan resources and meet demand.

Best for:

+ Managing public requests, event management, and approvals.

Room Scheduling

Transform course planning with smarter pathway coordination.

Best for:

+ Simple space management and making section room assignments.

Ad Astra Success Stories

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

Efficient scheduling for 15,000+ unique class sections a year.

Discover how the University of Missouri-Kansas City improved student success through smart academic course scheduling.

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8% increase in retention year over year

See how Northwest Missouri State University leveraged Ad Astra’s scheduling tools to create operational efficiency, transparency across departments, and ultimately help improve student outcomes.

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20+ hours per term saved

Discover how Butler Community College said goodbye to manual processes & automated their scheduling process, saving 20-30 hours of work each term.

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Streamlining Events Scheduling with Supercharged Reporting

Joy Medford, Executive Director of Institutional Effectiveness, set out to bring a centralized approach to scheduling at Angelina College. Learn how Angelina College streamlines its event process and efficiently scheduled 300+ events and 2000+ meetings.

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$350k savings during a multi-year configuration of academic building resources

When Western Kentucky had to reallocate 156 rooms due to a building shutdown, Ad Astra powered fast rescheduling decisions using room and resource data – ultimately helping the university achieve a six-figure savings.

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