ACADEMIC COURSE SCHEDULING SOFTWARE

Build course schedules that power student progress.

Publish smart schedules with Ad Astra, the leading solution for effective and efficient Academic Scheduling.

✔ Mitigate course bottlenecks
✔ Assign faculty and spaces to sections
✔ Manage workflows and permissions
✔ Publish directly to your SIS

LET'S TALK ABOUT ACADEMICS

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

"Ad Astra helps us meet students' needs when building the schedule."

To meet the needs of its diverse student population, the University of Missouri-Kansas City committed to optimizing its course schedule in partnership with Ad Astra. UMKC now efficiently schedules more than 15,000 unique class sections a year.

Registrar Amy Cole says the goal is to ensure students from all backgrounds are able to take courses when, where, and how they need them to graduate on time.

ACADEMIC SCHEDULE BUILDING and EDITING

Manage courses, sections, and meetings in a single system.

Schedule courses and sections in one seamless experience with an intuitive and visual scheduling grid. Use historical academic schedule data to efficiently create an annualized version of your schedule.

✔ Visual scheduling calendar	✔ Filtered schedule views
✔ Section editing and alignment	✔ Annual schedule building

Workflows, Permissions, and Roles

Control scheduling access by department, role, and user.

Define scheduling workflow phases to efficiently collaborate throughout the schedule building process. Manage permissions and create custom filters for Deans, Chairs, or scheduling stakeholders to quickly find information.

✔ Custom workflow set-up	✔ User groups management
✔ Dynamic permission controls	✔ Collaborative tagging and assignment

HISTORICAL DATA RECOMMENDATIONS

Align course schedules with student needs.

Combat bottlenecked course offerings by leveraging recommendations informed by a process that forecasts course demand from historical enrollment patterns. Target change candidates that leverage historical enrollment patterns, improve resource utilization, and minimize disruption.

✔ Historical schedule insights	✔ Section offering recommendations
✔ Schedule refinement reports

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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✔ Bi-directional SIS integrations	✔ Data exports
✔ Review changes mode	✔ Custom data and real-time syncs

ACADEMIC COURSE SCHEDULING SOFTWARE

Build course schedules that power student progress.

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

"Ad Astra helps us meet students' needs when building the schedule."

ACADEMIC SCHEDULE BUILDING and EDITING

Manage courses, sections, and meetings in a single system.

Workflows, Permissions, and Roles

Control scheduling access by department, role, and user.

HISTORICAL DATA RECOMMENDATIONS

Align course schedules with student needs.

STUDENT INFORMATION SYSTEM INTEGRATION

Publish schedules for timely registration.

Let’s talk about your institution's course scheduling 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