Case Studies Being focused on solutions means concentrating on client results. Our partner institutions have achieved great results with our software and services that easily justify their investment in Astra Schedule.
CSULB Attacks Capacity Bottlenecks to Support Enrollment Growth To accomodate the administration's enrollment groth goal fo 2.5 percent in the next 10 years, California State University at Long Beach planned renovation and construction projects. However, a Bottleneck Study from Ad Astra revealed that no new large lecture rooms, the type most heavily utilized by CSULB, were planned for the projects. Read about how CSULB used the findings and recommendations from the Bottleneck Study to make policy changes that would allow for growth in a shrinking environment: CSULB Case Study.pdf UBC Saves 4,650 Man Hours through Optimization Project After learning that they were about to lose more than 60 rooms to renovations and re-purposing, schedulers at the University of British Columbia had to devise a solution that would allow previously scheduled courses to be assigned into rooms while upholding an 80 percent fill ratio to maximize space utilization. Learn more about UBC's success reassigning courses to rooms while saving time: UBC Optimization Case Study.pdf LeTourneau University Optimizes its Scheduling Process Through sessions at the Astra Schedule Users' conference, LeTourneau not only learned how to use the pre-built interface with Jenzabar CX --nearly eliminating double data entry--but also learned how to layer scheduling scenarios to reap the greatest results. Find out how they've used these techniques to save time and increase efficiency: LeTourneau Case Study.pdf Santa Clara University Increases Visibility on Campus
Three times per year, Santa Clara University was scheduling 1,200 courses with a pencil and paper. By automating room scheduling and combining events into Astra Schedule, Santa Clara was able to save weeks of scheduling time. Learn more about the changes the institution made to make its process more effective and efficient: Santa Clara Case Study.pdf Cuyahoga's Five-Site Optimization Success After years of guessing a popular time for a course and shopping around in Banner to find a space, Cuyahoga Community College determined that another solution was needed. Tri-C used Astra Schedule to store course needs and instructor preferences and optimized all five sites with great success. Learn more about Tri-C's optimization results and how the institution is using preference data to make space upgrade decisions: Cuyahoga Community College Case Study.pdf Hartnell College Implements Change and Success Hartnell College's smooth Astra Schedule implementation and seamless integration with Datatel R18 made campus acceptance easy. By showing the long-term benefits of Astra Schedule to the faculty, the IT team was able to show the need for change. Read more about how Hartnell's faculty and staff not only accepted changes, but embraced the system for their own planning purposes: Hartnell Case Study.pdf Stevenson University Averts Crisis during Exam Week When a thunderstorm hit Stevenson, MD during exam week, Stevenson University had to alert students and faculty of late exams and road closings immediately. Through the use of Astra Schedule, Stevenson not only greatly improved its exam scheduling process, but also was able to know which exams were meeting in which rooms. With this list, schedulers were able to spread the word about the roads and delayed exams. Read more about Stevenson's improvements to exam scheduling: Stevenson University Case Study.pdf
The University of Georgia aces final exam scheduling The University of Georgia needed a solution to more efficiently and effectively manage the exam scheduling process. Using the Astra Schedule Exam Module and Optimizer, UGA now schedules final exams for over 4,200 classes without exchanging a single piece of paper! This automated process reduced the amount of work involved for the academic units, the number of staff and the time frame needed to get the scheduling done. Read how they leveraged the Astra Schedule suite of solutions to simplify the exam scheduling process: UGA Case Study.pdf
The University of British Columbia tackles its space bottleneck Through collaboration with Astra Schedule, UBC has identified its space bottleneck (large capacity classrooms) and a plan for managing allocation of those rooms. In less than 30 days, UBC defined the problem, quantified the problem, developed an allocation plan, and presented a scheduling policy that supported that plan to the academic deans. To their surprise, the plan was received without resistance and is now in place. Learn more about this innovative approach to the common problem of academic space capacity: UBC Case Study.pdf
Texas Christian University survives new construction TCU had increased its enrollments more than 23 percent, and in the process they had outgrown their academic space. Using Astra Schedule, TCU developed schedule scenarios that allowed them to get by until the new space was on line. Learn more about how this innovative approach kept TCU students and faculty out of portable classrooms: TCU Case Study.pdf
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