Moving schedules from ofCourse to the parent SIS
We have a challenge in what we do. Our goal is to empower schedule makers, make them feel bionic, make…
Schedule restriction protections and the constant drip of improvement
Replicate a polished schedule. Change start times, change rooms, or move classes online. Experiment. See if a new strategy will work.
This year we committed to extending our Step 5 reporting tools in significant ways. This month I am pleased (and…
Proximity report alerts you to courses crowding their neighbors
A schedule administrator's greatest fear comes the first week of classes. This is when if something went awry it would…
Registrar-only classrooms and rules-based classrooms
Classrooms come in all sizes. In a perfect scheduling world, this would be the only room-related matter we'd have to…
Registrar time-range preferences rather than hard rules
There was a time, almost a decade ago, when our primary goal was to simply make a computed schedule. No…
Use course tagging for flexible reporting and filtering
Scheduling season is upon us and do we have wonderful news for you (you being our ofCourse admins that is).…
Cohort balance report — a new tool to score your schedule
When making a schedule, there is a natural order to things. We observed this early in our work and built…
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…