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I work for a ... reseller/host/supporter... of various higher ed platforms (Banner/Blackboard) and those systems make me sad. Glad to see someone disrupting the space! Good luck going forward! As a dev, I can't imagine setting my sights on those targets. It seems overwhelming.
Ah, very cool (and relevant). I happen to work in lower & upper schools helping build schedules and all the things that go along with that. I believe I came across your product in the Spring via Google.
I work for a ... reseller/host/supporter... of various higher ed platforms (Banner/Blackboard) and those systems make me sad. Glad to see someone disrupting the space! Good luck going forward! As a dev, I can't imagine setting my sights on those targets. It seems overwhelming.
Great to hear that - that's why we need help. Would love to get in touch to learn more
What kind of penetration do you have in the institutions that use your platform? i.e. Are they using it for scheduling all courses within the university, or only certain colleges, certain departments etc.
Hats off to you for getting this thing going so strong! It ain't easy in that space, that's for sure!
What kind of penetration do you have in the institutions that use your platform? i.e. Are they using it for scheduling all courses within the university, or only certain colleges, certain departments etc.
Many of our schools like BYU or UMontana have campus-wide deployments and do all of their scheduling with us, while some other campuses have started with a subset (Columbia Law School) during the first year with us. We don't work with individual departments for the most part just because they often don't have serious budgets to work with.
We're seeing a lot of schools now procure additional products once they enjoy their additional experience with us, like this school Laguna College https://coursedog.com/case-study123
Congratulations! I've been trying to crack the higher ed nut for a while with no luck whatsoever. And I used to be a professor- I'm solving a problem that I know exists, and that the people I talk to know exists! (I think the problem is partially that they don't know what a solution looks like). Hats off to you for getting this thing going so strong! It ain't easy in that space, that's for sure!
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Yeah they are one of these players that has been working on scheduling since the 90's. We've taken a few schools off of their tool mainly because it's not the most intuitive, it does not really provide course demand projections and we have a department scheduling piece that EMS is lacking. Have you used EMS before or how are you aware of it?
Yeah, I work at an EMS using university. We started using it about a decade ago because the alternative was Ellucian's R25, which didn't really compete well on features, and my previous boss had use EMS at Harvard. Overall, I think EMS has worked pretty well for us, but even now, we still deal with the politics of automated scheduling vs. faculty desires. These tools can work very well, if people will let them.
What's the best email to reach you at?
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Appreciate the feedback!
Yeah of course. Are you guys mainly focused on classic 4 year universities or do you have your sights on/have you worked with community college and trade schools as well?
It. All. Sucks.
Not one piece of software I have used (Canvas, Sakai, Slate and numerous in-house tools) are easy to use or easy to integrate with. A group of students here at UNC created https://www.coursicle.com/ which deals with the student scheduling side of things and actually looks pretty great but I've not used it. I'm sure you've seen it already.
I'm curious how many CIO/CTOs have had concerns with moving to your system or if you've got a canned response for all the FERPA FUD that gets tossed around?