Year in review: Product updates in 2024
Read about how the ofCourse system was extended in 2024. In short the year largely focused on enhancing the post-production tools available to ofCourse admins.
Year in review: Product updates in 2023
Updates in 2023 focused on improved performance and boy did the work pay off. Streamlined interface, exponentially faster page loads, there were gains all around.
Year in review: Product updates in 2022
Read about features we added in 2022, plus features in the pipeline for 2023.
For many people, training their replacement is one of the biggest (and least-enjoyed) challenges of manual schedule-making. For many schools…
Start using Semester Templates
Our last blog entry introduced the bulk add utility to help enter your courseload. I mentioned how that had spawned…
Courseload Entry: bigger, faster, better
One of the very first steps each scheduling season is entering the courses you wish to offer and the faculty…
Attain perfect schedule parity with addition of SIS section identifiers
Dealing with the trailing section IDs on course codes is a ticklish issue for a few reasons. For most schools,…
Problem preferences exposed in real-time
One of the most loved ofCourse features (only behind the Collision Management Checker) is the Preference Collection System. This elegant…
Support for common start times
Now and then, we add a feature that we can't believe we didn't add years earlier. This recent update certainly…
Like most people, we enjoy a challenge. Many years ago, we took one of the most arduous administrative tasks universities…
Year in review: Product updates in 2021
Read about features we added in 2021, plus features in the pipeline for 2022.
Assess preference data with a beautiful new report
Viewing a semester's worth of preference data in any meaningful way has always been challenging. Until now ...