ESSENTIAL ACADEMIC SCHEDULING
Improve the efficiency of course scheduling and event management.
Build policy-aligned institutional schedules utilizing historical analysis, room scheduling and faculty assignment tools. Streamline event management with conflict-free, centralized calendaring and tools to maximize event revenue.
Streamlined schedules that put students first.
Efficient Academic Scheduling Software
Conflict-free Scheduling System
Simplify the process of creating, modifying, and managing events with real-time visibility into all activities. Book rooms and resources and keep stakeholders in the loop.
Centralized Calendar Management
Ensure all stakeholders have real-time visibility into the course schedule, can customize views, and seamlessly collaborate with other individuals or academic departments.
Event Revenue Management
Optimize revenue from your events with integrated calendars, request and approval workflow, attendee management, and billing tools.
Academic Scheduling Software
Impact student outcomes with effective academic scheduling.
Schedule courses and sections in one seamless experience using a process that forecasts course demand from historical enrollment patterns. The result? Academic schedules that put your students first.
Edit sections with ease
Say goodbye to spreadsheets. Manage course sections and collaborate easily across departments with filtered views.
Streamline course-level refinements
Target change candidates that leverage historical enrollment patterns, improve resource utilization, and minimize disruption.
Mitigate course bottlenecks
Combat bottlenecked course offerings by leveraging recommendations informed by historical data.
Event Scheduling
Streamline event management workflows across campus.
Request, schedule, and manage events in a single experience while maximizing event revenue. Create conflict-free scheduling with complete visibility into academic and non-academic spaces.
Administer approval workflows
Save time creating and managing events with simple form requests as well as room and resource approval workflows. Set who can request spaces and resources via user permissions.
Schedule conflict-free events
We Plan events with visibility into all spaces and meetings on campus, such as academic sections or athletic events.
Maintain a centralized calendar
See real-time availability of academic and event spaces in one dynamic, unified calendar view with color-coordinated organization. Additionally, create public calendars that can be viewed by event category and embedded into your website.
Maximize efficiency
Enable flexible workflows for every user with multiple calendar views, in-app notifications, and anytime access.
Access events on the go
Update event details from any location with mobile-friendly functionality.
Grow your event revenue with added capabilities.
Room Scheduling Software
Find the right room for each section or event with ease.
Assign rooms to sections effortlessly across campus without creating conflicts.
Create conflict-free assignments
Feel confident in your space assignments with conflict and double-booking validation.
Maximize seat utilization
Identify the most efficient rooms for assignment sections by gaining visibility into seat fill percentage.
Filter rooms by criteria
Set building filters and preferences to identify rooms that meet your meeting requirements.
FACULTY ASSIGNMENT
Leverage system-curated recommendations to assign faculty.
Easily select instructors for course sections with immediate insight into faculty workload, course experience, and availability.
Gain transparency into faculty capacity
See current availability, capacity based on annual allocation, and experienced instructors.
Make smarter assignments, faster
Leverage intelligent suggestions based on availability and credit hour workloads to make accurate assignments in one click.
No more searching
Eliminate the need to cross-reference your SIS. Find everything you need to make faculty assignments in one place.
Scheduling Reports
Create schedule transparency with a library of smart reports and analyses.
Access an ever-growing library of reports and intelligence designed to help you evaluate and improve scheduling practices.
Gain insight into the effectiveness of your schedule
Analyze academic and room scheduling data to optimize space usage and faculty assignments, reduce room conflicts, and manage events efficiently.
Refine your course offerings
Access detailed section information, including heat maps by modality and time of day to discover patterns and opportunities in your schedule.
Operate smooth and secure events
Ensure all activities run as planned with daily and weekly event reports that provide operational transparency.
Tell accessible data stories
Share information with stakeholders using clear and succinct data visualizations that foster cross-functional clarity and coordination.
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.
Additional Capabilities of Essential Scheduling
Event Billing & Invoicing
Send and manage invoices in one simple workflow.
Event Registration, Rentals & Payments
Generate revenue, collect rental fees, and manage public registrations.
Final Exam Scheduling
Optimize exam operations during the scheduling cycle.
Essential Scheduling Success Stories
550+ institutions. 4.5 million students. And counting.
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.
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.
Reduced canceled classes term-over-term from 15 to two.
Learn how South Louisiana Community College streamlined manual processes to improve efficiency and ROI.
$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.
Integrations
We partner with the industry's leading student information systems for easy, reliable integrations.