INTEGRATED ACADEMIC PLANNING
Align stakeholders and optimize student and financial outcomes.
Create a data-informed strategy for each academic program. Design an annual schedule template that operationalizes your strategy and ensures alignment across academic departments.
The intelligence to plan for the long term.
Reduced Schedule Barriers
Framework for Financial Sustainability
Analyze academic program contribution to margin and financial sustainability. Implement targeted strategies to improve the financial health of your academic programs, even those with low enrollments.
Institutional Alignment
Leverage automatically-generated schedule templates from your plan that create scheduling guardrails for academic departments. Ensure that scheduling policy is implemented for improved student success and financial health outcomes.
Data-Informed Faculty Hiring
Analyze your faculty capacity to support enrollments in your various academic programs. Leverage that analysis to target hiring to resolve capacity bottlenecks.
ANNUAL SCHEDULE PLANNING
Generate strategic schedule drafts that ensure sustainability and alignment.
Leverage system-generated intelligence to design multi-term schedules that unify department schedulers. Highlight and resolve inefficiencies and barriers to student progress before they materialize in the schedule.
Ensure clear paths to completion for students
Allow students to start and finish their academic program without having to change modalities, locations, or time-of-day.
Prioritize academic program schedules
Manage schedules from an academic program versus individual course perspective in order to improve outcomes, leading to a consistently smart annual schedule.
Promote data-driven decision-making
Provide transparency that will help mobilize academic leaders and synergize efforts across the entire institution.
RETENTION AND COMPLETION MODELING
Support student progress with retention and completion insights.
Assess the impact of accelerated student progress on retention and completion rates to address meaningful and proactive scheduling opportunities.
Understand the impact of scheduling on future student success
Visualize forecasted graduation rates based on historical student behavior to understand how current course access will impact retention & completion.
Enable equitable completion paths
Ensure students can follow their pathway to graduation in the completion path they prefer. Identify students that are blocked or delayed from completing their degree pathway due to course time, modality, or campus.
FACULTY CAPACITY PLANNING
Leverage your multi-term plan to anticipate future faculty hiring needs.
Use your multi-term plan to determine necessary faculty hiring needs that will match forecasted academic program enrollments and resulting course demand.
Anticipate faculty hiring needs
Plan for upcoming hires based on forecasted enrollments to move beyond the inefficiency and chaos of last-minute hiring.
Understand program capacity with existing faculty
Track faculty allocation in real-time as schedules are refined to effectively manage the capacity of your faculty and programs.
Optimize faculty allocation
Mitigate course bottlenecks and low demand course offerings by aligning your faculty to students’ needs.
FINANCIAL HEALTH MODELING
Improve financial health and academic program sustainability.
Analyze projected tuition revenue, instructional cost, and margin of your tentative annual schedule as well as opportunities to improve margin. Model the collective impact of strategies to finalize your annual schedule plan.
Analyze margin for every course and academic program
Take the guesswork out of financial health by leveraging our 'follow-the-student' method for allocating tuition, cost, and margin.
Highlight financial health strategy opportunities
Vet system-curated financial health strategies to refine supported completion paths and pathway requirements.
Model the financial impacts of schedule changes
Reference margin calculations from your annual schedule plans to inform your institution’s course of action for future schedules.
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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.
Success Stories
550+ institutions. 4.5 million students. And counting.
Course fill rate jumped from 49.5% in Fall 2018 to 62.6% in Fall 2021.
Learn how West Virginia Northern Community College improved institutional financial sustainability through the power of data.
Planning Schedules for the Future
Advising and registration are complex, and long-term planning is understandably a daunting subject for many institutions. The off-season can be the perfect time to take a step back and determine plans for improvement – such as the introduction of an annual schedule – to create a direct impact on the regular season.
Strategic Academic Planning: Supporting Student Success
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