ESSENTIAL HIGHER EDUCATION SCHEDULING SOFTWARE
Improve the efficiency of course scheduling and event management.
Build smart course schedules using an efficient academic scheduling system and streamline event management with Ad Astra's conflict-free higher education scheduling software.
Streamlined schedules that put students first.
Efficient Academic Scheduling Software
Conflict-free Scheduling System
Simplify the process of managing bookings with scheduling software that offers real-time visibility into academics and event activities. Efficiently book rooms and resources while keeping stakeholders informed.
Centralized Calendar Management
Streamline academic operations with a centralized calendaring system that ensures real-time visibility into the course schedule. Enable stakeholders to customize views and collaborate efficiently with academic departments.
Event Revenue Management
Maximize revenue with event management software that includes integrated calendars, attendee management, and billing tools to streamline workflows.
Academic Scheduling Software
Impact student outcomes with effective academic scheduling.
Build smart academic schedules using course scheduling software that analyzes historical enrollment patterns to streamline academic operations and prioritize student success.
Edit sections with ease
Eliminate inefficient spreadsheets, effortlessly manage course sections, and collaborate across departments with intuitive academic scheduling filters.
Streamline course-level refinements
Enhance course scheduling by targeting adjustments based on historical enrollment patterns. Improve resource utilization and reduce disruption across your academic operations.
Mitigate course bottlenecks
Reduce bottlenecks in course offerings using insights from course scheduling analytics and historical data.
Event Scheduling
Streamline event management workflows across campus.
Request, schedule, and manage events in one seamless event management software, maximizing event revenue and ensuring conflict-free scheduling with full visibility into academic and non-academic spaces.
Administer approval workflows
Save time planning higher education events with request and approval workflows. Ad Astra's event scheduling platform manages your spaces with smart resource request forms and user permissions for efficient approvals.
Schedule conflict-free events
Ensure smooth event planning with university scheduling software that offers full visibility into space usage, including academic courses and other campus activities.
Maintain a centralized calendar
Maintain a centralized scheduling system with real-time visibility into academic and event spaces in a unified, color-coded calendar. Share public event calendars that can be viewed by category and embedded into your website.
Maximize efficiency
Ad Astra's higher education scheduling software supports flexible workflows for every user. Benefit from multiple calendar views, in-app notifications, and anytime access that streamlines your event scheduling system.
Access events on the go
Mobile event scheduling allows you to update event details from any location for seamless on-the-go event management.
Grow your event revenue with added capabilities.
Room Scheduling Software
Find the right room for each section or event with ease.
Effortlessly assign rooms to sections across campus with smart room scheduling software that ensures no conflicts.
Create conflict-free assignments
Feel confident in your space assignments with a course scheduling system that validates conflicts and prevents double-booking.
Maximize seat utilization
Leverage room scheduling software to gain visibility into seat fill percentage and identify the most efficient rooms for section assignments.
Filter rooms by criteria
Apply filters and preferences to identify rooms that meet your criteria for events and academic operations.
FACULTY ASSIGNMENT
Leverage system-curated recommendations to assign faculty.
Easily select instructors for course sections with immediate insight into faculty workload, course teaching experience, and instructor availability.
Gain transparency into faculty capacity
View current availability and capacity of faculty to make optimal course assignments with Ad Astra's higher education scheduling software.
Make smarter assignments, faster
Utilize intelligent recommendations based on instructor availability and credit hour workloads to make accurate assignments with a single click.
No more searching
Eliminate the need to cross-reference your student information system. Find all the information you need to make faculty assignments in one smart workflow.
Scheduling Reports
Create schedule transparency with a library of smart reports and analyses.
Access an ever-expanding library of reports and analytics designed to evaluate and enhance your academic scheduling practices.
Gain insight into the effectiveness of your schedule
Analyze academic and room scheduling data to optimize space utilization, improve faculty assignments, reduce conflicts, and manage events effectively.
Refine your course offerings
Access detailed section information—including modality heat maps and time-of-day insights—to discover scheduling patterns and opportunities for improvement.
Operate smooth and secure events
Ensure seamless, secure operations with daily and weekly event reports that provide transparency into space utilization and campus activities.
Tell accessible data stories
Share insights with stakeholders and improve scheduling practices with clear data visualizations that reveal strengths and opportunities in your academic operations.
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
Streamline event billing and invoicing with an event management system that lets you send and manage invoices in one simple workflow.
Event Registration, Rentals & Payments
Manage public registrations and optimize revenue collection through rental fees with an efficient scheduling system.
Final Exam Scheduling
Optimize exam management throughout your scheduling process.
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 leading student information systems for seamless and reliable integrations, ensuring smooth connection to Ad Astra's higher education scheduling software systems.