Articles on Academic Operations

Coursedog Co-Founders Receive Forbes 30 Under 30 Award

Forbes 30 Under 30

Is Your Academic Planning Software Growing with You?

Three ways academic planning software can help your institution evolve.

3 Lessons Learned from Launching an Academic Operations Hub

Insights for Illinois Central College on breaking down academic operations silos.

Adopting Class Scheduling Rules to Drive Departmental Scheduling Autonomy

Tips to achieve departmental scheduling autonomy through a scheduling software solution.

Why Professional Schools Need an Integrated Academic Operations Platform

Why Professional Schools need an Integrated Academic Operations Platform.

Coursedog Raises $17M to Break Down Barriers in Higher Education

Coursedog Raises $17M to Break Down Barriers in Higher Education

Coursedog Joins Ellucian Community of Ethos Connected Partners

Ellucian and Coursedog improve scheduling and curriculum management processes via Ethos integration.

7 Benefits of Cloud Software for Higher Education

Cloud-based solutions help Higher Education institutions reduce costs, protect their data, streamline administrative processes, and respond to changing needs quickly and efficiently. Read this article to learn how a SaaS platform can benefit your institution.

Best Practices for the Registrar's Strategic Scheduling Roadmap

Course scheduling can play an important role in overall institutional effectiveness. Read this article to learn how scheduling best practices can help your institution achieve its goals.

How Academic Scheduling Analytics Fuel Student & Administrative Success

Scheduling data visualization and reporting can hold key insights that inform current and future iterations of the schedule. Learn how institutions can benefit from leveraging their scheduling and enrollment data.

Why Excel for Class Scheduling & Information Silos are Bad for Student Success

Many institutions continue to rely on manual scheduling processes that negatively impact students and administrators. Learn how information silos hurt scheduling and what type of solution may be right for you.

Coursedog To Provide Stanford with Curriculum & Catalog Software

Coursedog Provides Stanford University with Curriculum & Catalog Software

Coursedog Partners with College of Lake County

Coursedog partners with CLC

How to Run a Class Schedule Optimizer

How to optimize your schedule

How to Evaluate an SIS Integration for Class Scheduling

How to Evaluate an SIS Integration

5 Things to Look for in Curriculum Management Software

What to look for in curriculum management software

5 Tips to Improve the Class Scheduling Process for Registrars

Learn how to save time and boost student success while scheduling

The 4 Components of an Integrated Academic Operations Platform

The Role of the University Registrar with Rodney Parks, Elon University

Key insights from two thought leaders in Higher Ed based on their presentations at our conference, Community 2020.

Carnegie Mellon University's Registrar and the Future of Higher Ed in the Time of COVID (and Beyond)

We sat down with John Papinchak, University Registrar at Carnegie Mellon University, to discuss the topic, to assess what COVID means for Registrars, scheduling, and higher-ed writ large, and to walk through the ways Coursedog has been able to help our partner institutions.

Selecting a Course Scheduling Software to Meet Your Institution's Needs

Selecting the right vendor to partner with on scheduling can be daunting. This article breaks the process down to ensure you efficiently and effectively choose the right partner for your institution.

A Guide to Overhauling the Course Scheduling Process

Students’ needs are changing drastically, and universities recognize that they need to do more to keep up. But taking the necessary steps to de-prioritize faculty scheduling preferences to better service students can be tricky.

What is End-to-End Scheduling Anyway?

At Coursedog, we talk a lot about "end-to-end scheduling." Maybe too much.

The 4 Challenges of Excel Course Scheduling

This 3-part series will help you understand the problems so many schools face today in their section scheduling endeavors.

Is Classroom Scheduling Software for Higher Education Dead?

Countless universities believe that the reason why they are running out of space for scheduling classrooms on campus is because they don’t have an effective classroom scheduling software tool. But at the core, their problems truly begin with the other scheduling processes, like instructor scheduling and time scheduling.

Make Class Scheduling Easier for Department Schedulers

Let’s face it, your academic scheduling process is not working. We know that academic class scheduling can be frustrating. Course scheduling in Excel, your SIS, or in a system that was built from an older vendor can lead to a ton of administrative manual work and problems with the schedule.

Optimizing Time Blocks on Campus for Success

The research on how to effectively structure your college’s academic course scheduling may be scarce, but that doesn’t mean it’s not out there.

3 Best Practices for Class Scheduling in 2020

At Coursedog, our goal is to make life easier for college registrars like you. Every year, registrar responsibilities become more and more complex. From 2000 to 2017, college enrollment increased 27% to 16.8 million students. The number of majors and minors is also growing. And with limited classroom space, course scheduling has become an enormous headache for university administrators.