ACADEMIC PATHWAY ALIGNMENT DASHBOARD

Transform course planning with smarter pathway coordination.

Align pathway guidance with annual course offerings and improve student progression with Ad Astra's Pathway Alignment dashboard.

✔ Align course offerings with student pathways
✔ Remove scheduling bottlenecks
✔ Identify strategic alignment opportunities
✔ Optimize resources across the academic year

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

The Smart Scheduling Guide to Pathways

Implementing guided pathways is one of the most promising strategies to boost student completion, but without aligned course scheduling, even the most thoughtfully designed pathways fall short.

This guide explores how institutions can strengthen their guided pathways work through strategic scheduling practices that support student momentum, simplify decision-making, and enhance operational efficiency.

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Annual Pathway Guidance

Coordinate course offerings across programs and terms.

Pathway Alignment gives academic leaders the tools to evaluate how pathway guidance, course timing, and student populations interact—surfacing actionable opportunities to optimize the schedule.

✔ Analyze shared course requirements across programs	✔ Understand term-by-term demand from pathway timing
✔ Assess potential student demand by classification

Pathway and Course CHANGE Candidates

Promote efficient scheduling with data-informed planning insights.

Surface high-impact candidates such as imbalanced offerings, segmented low-enrollment courses, or unmet required offerings. Use the dashboard annually to plan smarter and sustainably.

✔ Top candidate and action lists	✔ Views by course and by pathway
✔ Balanced term analysis

Pathway-to-Schedule ALIGNMENT

Close the gap between course planning and student success.

Support degree progress by ensuring students can follow their pathway guidance. Reduce unnecessary delays and course bottlenecks while boosting overall course access.

✔ Increase on-track progression	✔ Reduce uncertainty in planning
✔ Enhance pathway sustainability	✔ Improve section enrollment ratios

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.

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.

$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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ACADEMIC PATHWAY ALIGNMENT DASHBOARD

Transform course planning with smarter pathway coordination.

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

The Smart Scheduling Guide to Pathways

Annual Pathway Guidance

Coordinate course offerings across programs and terms.

Pathway and Course CHANGE Candidates

Promote efficient scheduling with data-informed planning insights.

Pathway-to-Schedule ALIGNMENT

Close the gap between course planning and student success.

Let’s talk about your institution's pathway needs.

Ad Astra Success Stories

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

8% increase in retention year over year

20+ hours per term saved

Streamlining Events Scheduling with Supercharged Reporting

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