DATA-INFORMED ACADEMIC SCHEDULING
Optimize course schedules with embedded intelligence.
Empower your institution to operate as a center of excellence. Confidently analyze data to improve scheduling effectiveness and react in real-time to enrollment fluctuations.
Smart systems that allow you to refine and intervene with confidence.
Agile Decision-Making
Proactively refine class schedules and minimize disruption due to late changes with real-time registration data.
Classroom Optimization Tools
Maximize your space utilization through smart room assignments based on customized preferences and what-if scenarios.
Academic Workload Planning
Manage faculty assignments, prevent overloading, and gain a clearer understanding of instructional and non-instructional workloads.
Contextual Awareness
Using the industry’s only benchmarking database, see how your scheduling efforts stack up against your peers. Leverage this data to improve completion rates, faculty capacity, and operational efficiency.
CLASSROOM OPTIMIZATION
Maximize your spaces with optimized room assignments.
Model what-if scenarios to efficiently assign rooms using state-of-the-art algorithms and custom class scheduling preferences.
Save time with quick space allocation
Automatically find available spaces for course sections instead of manually searching for rooms.
Optimize existing room utilization
Optimize use of your campus spaces by identifying room criteria that are useful to meet class needs.
Draft multiple scenarios
Feel comfortable with your room assignments by experimenting with drafted scenarios and previewing changes before setting them live.
Faculty Workload Management
Mitigate overloaded faculty with enhanced assignment insights.
Track comprehensive faculty capacity with added insight into non-instructional assignments and reporting by term.
Available only with Ellucian Banner integrations.
Reduce overloaded faculty
Leverage centralized reporting
Gain comprehensive insight into workloads
COURSE REGISTRATION MONITORING
Monitor registrations and proactively respond to student needs in real time.
Refine and adapt your schedule with real-time registration visibility. Prepare for and respond to changing student demand with the ability to be notified when courses are nearly full or still struggling to get enrollments.
Get ahead of late cancellations
Foster departmental coordination
Enhance decision efficiency
Identify modality preferences
Reduce late adds and cancellations
HESI® REPORTS
Leverage peer-to-peer course schedule benchmarking.
Using Ad Astra’s Higher Education Scheduling Index (HESI®), see how effective your scheduling practices are versus your peers. Leverage data to improve Degree Velocity®, on-time graduation rates, and overall student success, faculty capacity, and operational efficiency.
Benchmark outcomes against like institutions
Improve schedule efficiency
Meet student demand while optimizing resources
Make classes more accessible
We're powering progress through Smart Scheduling.
Learn how using real-time data and thoughtful design can produce high-quality, student-centered schedules.
Learn how using real-time data and thoughtful design can produce high-quality, student-centered schedules.
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.
10.0% growth in fall-over-fall enrollments and 997 seats added
See how Bossier Parish Community College was able to identify bottlenecks and monitor registration in real time to support growth.
8.6% increase in Latino student retention rates
Using Ad Astra data to pinpoint course scheduling roadblocks, Texas A&M discovered new ways to decrease stop-outs and improve success.
14% year-over-year contact hour increase
Learn how Northeast Lakeview College achieved sustained growth through efficient scheduling.
Streamlined registration process across 7 campuses
Discover how Collin College streamlined its registration process across seven campuses, exchanging Excel sheets and post-it notes for streamlined, reliable data and dynamic, actionable visuals.
29% growth in completion among the three largest minority groups
By disaggregating scheduling effectiveness data for minority and Pell-eligble students, Montgomery College is accelerating student completion rates.