Consulting

Key service offerings:

Professional coaching: Experienced consultants are assigned to guide and support you throughout the scheduling process.
Alignment with institutional mission: Identify opportunities to align your course schedules with your institution's mission, ensuring a cohesive and purposeful approach.
Ongoing collaboration: Regular touchpoints with institutional leadership and the strategic scheduling team ensure effective use and adoption of Ad Astra solutions.
Effective practices and change management: Share effective business practices and change management methodologies to facilitate solution adoption.
Data insights and reporting: Assist in gaining additional data insights based on your institutional needs and provide support with scheduling reports.

Key service offerings:

Strategic scheduling check-up: Evaluation of current space allocation and course offerings.
Facilitated focus groups and key stakeholder interviews: Engage with key stakeholders to gain insights into the strengths and opportunities within your course scheduling infrastructure - course scheduling processes, policies, procedures, and more.
Presentation of findings: Based on data analysis and stakeholder feedback, a summary is provided with key findings and recommendations to improve course scheduling infrastructure and practices.
Change management: Facilitated discussions to develop a change management framework that supports the implementation of the recommended strategies, including identifying priorities, establishing timelines, and providing guidance on effectively adopting and integrating improved scheduling practices.

Key service offerings:

Strategic scheduling check-up: Evaluation of current space allocation and course offerings.
Data-driven scheduling analysis: Analyze current scheduling policies, considering factors that impact space utilization, such as prime-time usage, off-grid scheduling, and low-enrolled sections.
Prime-time compression and schedule spreading: Identify opportunities to expand prime-time hours and spread the schedule more effectively, maximizing space utilization and reducing scheduling conflicts.
Course enrollment vs. classroom capacity analysis: Examine the relationship between course enrollment and classroom capacity, identifying areas where optimization can be achieved.
Review of planned building and classroom inventory changes: Assess planned changes in building and classroom inventory, considering enrollment trends and future needs to ensure optimal utilization.
Future capacity model: Provide a dynamic long-term planning and decision-making tool to simulate changes in enrollment, room utilization goals, and academic building inventory.

Key service offerings:

Peer benchmarking: Understand how your institution stacks up across multiple course scheduling and space capacity variables.
Course recommendations: Highlight course offering opportunities that better align to students' needs and uncover space bottlenecks impacting instructional capacity.
Action plan development: Collaboratively develop an action plan that considers recommendations and outlines next steps.

Key service offerings:

Scheduling patterns evaluation: Assess the institution's current scheduling patterns, including meeting times, durations, frequencies, and distribution throughout the week. This evaluation provides a comprehensive understanding of the existing scheduling landscape.
Scheduling goals analysis: Engage with key stakeholders, such as academic departments, faculty members, and administrative staff, to identify their scheduling goals and understand their objectives.
Space constraint identification: Consider space constraints and the institution's scheduling goals to make well-informed recommendations for scheduling grid changes, striving to balance meeting institution needs and allowing flexibility when necessary.
Quantification of impact: Determine the potential impact of the scheduling patterns on resource allocation and efficiency.

Key service offerings:

Pathway design and implementation: Utilize data to design and implement pathways for a predetermined number of degree programs.
Pathway data analysis: Analyze pathway data to guide refinement. Evaluate the impact of pathways on Degree Velocity®, enabling data-informed decisions for continuous improvement.
Course schedule alignment: Align course schedules with pathways to establish a cohesive and efficient curriculum structure. Ensure courses offered meet pathway requirements, facilitating smooth student progression.