Year in review: Product updates in 2017
Read about features we added in 2017, including course tagging, overlap report, cohort balance utilities, and room amenities.
New public view: course overlap report
While full-on technology workers developed the ofCourse scheduling platform, the lion's share of the design comes from school administrators, faculty,…
Last month I talked about the different kinds of updates we made--sexy, routine, and plumbing. What I failed to mention…
Three kinds of updates: sexy, routine, and plumbing
The design of our universe is breathtaking. There are so many intelligent parts to the construction. If you take some…
Support for multiple professors per course
I get a disproportionate number of calls that begin, "Troy, we have a bit of an odd request." When you…
Track classroom features with Room Amenities
For the most part teaching rooms these days are pretty comparably equipped. Smartboard. Check. Projection. Check. Ada access. Check. Fifteen…
Collision manager: never double-book a room or professor, ever again
The schedule has been produced. The schedule has been approved. The schedule has been published. You are breathing freely for…
Use historical reporting to decide which professor draws the short straw
People did not ask for a good number of the features in this system. Those additions come from a game…
Use Notes to keep track of schedule iterations
They say it is possible to have too much of anything, even good things. Believe it or not, there is…
How Do I Library: inline help for ofCourse
Last month I talked about the Scheduling Assistant. This month I want to talk about another helpful tool you have…
Scheduler checklist, aka Troy-in-a-Bottle
One of the best and worst facets of the scheduling life cycle is that it only happens once a year.…
Footnotes for annotating public schedules
As anyone who has ever made anything knows, it is not the typical, expected, cooperative parts of something that makes…