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Create Schedules that Boost Student Completion with CourseLeaf CLSS

CourseLeaf CLSS centralizes scheduling across departments, applies institutional rules, and optimizes class placement to support student completion. With powerful integrations for room and event scheduling, CLSS delivers a comprehensive solution that helps registrars and academic leaders create schedules that drive success.

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With CourseLeaf CLSS, you can count on:

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Fewer hours spent on academic scheduling

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System-wide content accuracy

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Schedules that adhere to campus policies

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Optimized class placement for student needs

Visualization Tools that Drive Accuracy and Balance

CLSS visualization tools, including the Section Heatmap™ and Snapper™, break down your course schedule into manageable pieces. One glance can tell you how courses are distributed throughout the week. To dig deeper, simply filter by instructor, meeting pattern, and/or course to check for inconsistencies or compliance issues. Graphic cues draw attention to potential conflicts and offer color-coded views of course distribution to create a balanced schedule.

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A Sophisticated Rules Engine with Reserved Seats and Final Exams Functionality Ensuring Compliance and Access

You’ve set scheduling rules for a reason, and CLSS makes it simple to validate that departments comply. From meeting patterns to faculty schedules, your institution’s custom scheduling rules and guidelines can be incorporated into CLSS, including specific rules for certain departments and classes. CLSS also includes advanced functionality to manage Reserved Seats and Final Exams Scheduling, helping you ensure easy and equitable access for students.

Customized Reports and Analytics for Informed Decision Making

CLSS can transform data like space utilization, peak times, and scheduling conflicts into customized reports to help you make smarter scheduling decisions next semester. It's new Course Demand analytics tools offer valuable insights into course trends based on past and present enrollment, waitlists, and available seats, making it easy to optimize schedules. 

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Intuitive Tools that Make Onboarding A Breeze

Faculty and staff can learn to use CLSS quickly to collaborate on class schedules, propose new courses, and slot them into meeting times. Intuitive editing, review, and approval tools make schedule validation quick and easy; users instantly see errors so they can make adjustments.

Centralized Controls that Allow You to Guide Department Access

With CLSS, you have complete jurisdiction over course schedules, selecting who participates in each stage of the process while allowing individual departments access. Administrators can easily approve or reject updates from departments and make exceptions to scheduling rules when needed.

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Advanced Bi-Directional Integration and Publication Options for Easy Sharing

Once the schedule is approved and complete, your work is done! CLSS can automatically share the information with your student information system (SIS) via our advanced bi-directional integration. It also offers an easy integration with room and event scheduling software and allows you to publish schedules to your website, save as spreadsheets, and save in PDFs.

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Build the Most Comprehensive Scheduling System for Your Campus

Searching for a solution that includes room and event scheduling? CourseLeaf integrates with CollegeNET 25Live and Accruent EMS room and event scheduling providers to offer a comprehensive scheduling system that is far more robust than any all-in-one option on the market. Collectively, these solutions provide the best scheduling capabilities and data tools to drive faculty satisfaction, optimized facility usage, and a stronger return on investment!

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Frequently Asked Questions for CourseLeaf Academic Scheduling Software

What is academic scheduling software?

Academic scheduling software helps colleges and universities build, review, approve, and publish course schedules while coordinating classroom assignments, instructor availability, and institutional policies.

What is the difference between course scheduling software and an SIS?

A student information system stores course schedule data, while course scheduling software provides the workflow, collaboration, optimization, and approval tools needed to build accurate schedules before they are published to the SIS.

How does CourseLeaf CLSS improve course scheduling?

CourseLeaf CLSS centralizes schedule creation, automates approvals, identifies conflicts, and helps departments collaborate more efficiently, reducing scheduling errors and administrative workload.

Does CourseLeaf CLSS integrate with Banner, PeopleSoft, Workday, and other leading student information systems?

Yes. CourseLeaf CLSS integrates with leading SIS platforms to synchronize scheduling data and reduce duplicate entry throughout the scheduling process.

Does CourseLeaf CLSS integrate with event and room scheduling systems?

Yes. CourseLeaf CLSS integrates with leading event and room scheduling systems, allowing institutions to coordinate course scheduling with classroom availability and space management. By sharing scheduling information across systems, institutions can reduce manual work, improve scheduling accuracy, and make more effective use of campus space.

Does CourseLeaf CLSS include course demand analytics?

Yes. CourseLeaf CLSS includes course demand analytics to help institutions compare student demand with scheduled course offerings. These insights help schedulers identify high-demand courses, optimize section offerings, and make more informed scheduling decisions to improve student access to the classes they need.

Course demand analytics are included as part of CourseLeaf CLSS—they are not a separate product or add-on.

How does CourseLeaf CLSS support student success?

By improving schedule accuracy and coordination across departments, CLSS helps institutions offer the right courses at the right times, making it easier for students to enroll in the classes they need.

Can multiple departments collaborate on scheduling?

Yes. Departments can work simultaneously within configurable workflows while maintaining institutional oversight and approval processes.

How does CLSS work with curriculum management?

CourseLeaf curriculum management software, CIM, and CLSS work together through your student information system (SIS). After curriculum changes are approved in CIM, they are synchronized with the SIS, where they become part of the institution's official academic data. CourseLeaf CLSS uses that approved SIS data to support academic scheduling, creating a connected workflow from curriculum approval to schedule creation while preserving the SIS as the single source of truth.

Is CourseLeaf CLSS built for higher education?

Yes. CourseLeaf CLSS was designed specifically for the complex scheduling needs of colleges and universities.

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