Paul Rose, Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives
Paul: "These are my colleagues and friends, and I take a long view—I don’t ask folks to do anything I wouldn’t do."
Course scheduling: 15 tips to do it faster, better, and from home (Video)
Covid-19 makes course scheduling so much harder. In this webinar, get 15 tips from a UC Irvine Registrar and a former Wash U IT director
What your college course schedule and the NFL have in common
With 32 teams playing 16 times each, there are more possible NFL schedules than there are atoms in the universe.
New feature: Capacity Overage Report
At a glance, see where course capacity exceeds room capacity.
Ryan Max Rowberry, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Ryan: Undoubtedly, the worst thing that's happened would be COVID-19... I must have redone the schedule 3 or 4 times.
26% of colleges still don’t have a fall schedule
As of August 13th, 26% of colleges still hadn’t announced their plans for the fall. Two weeks to go and no set schedule!
New feature for working on alternative schedules: Schedule Locking
Before COVID-19, schools had just one schedule they were preparing for publication. Now they need several. See how schedule locking helps.
Jim: The hardest part of scheduling is that there is no one hardest part. Instead, it’s an insanely complex, multi-part balancing act.
Five strategies for adjusting your school’s course schedule in an uncertain fall semester
Create a contingency schedule, reduce room and course capacity, increase break-times, move to an online scheduling system.
Clone a polished schedule—new COVID-19 feature in ofCourse
Replicate a polished schedule. Change start times, change rooms, or move classes online. Experiment. See if a new strategy will work.
New ofCourse features to support
scheduling in the world of COVID-19
COVID-19 updates are ready. Schedule longer breaktimes for sanitization. Use adjusted room and course capacities for a socially-distanced schedule.
Year in review: Product updates in 2019
Read about features we added in 2019, plus features in the pipeline for 2020.