Class A is excellent. We are just wrapping-up for Spring. Of course, a
school needs to understand its own priorities and strategy prior to entering
scheduling because it is not some wizard that will make decisions for you,
but rather it gets you into a position where you can balance and get above
the data so you can implement your schedule methodology. This whole process
is very interesting because you see what restrictions in Faculty schedules,
grade requirements and room resources does to your enrollment population. It
makes the process transparent for the school as opposed to just giving it to
one person to do. We did a small team to work through the Fall and Spring.
For example, we first starting using it in May for this Fall and we were
able to take our existing yearlong course enrollments and keep them static
while fitting around all our Spring semester course-sections around the
existing yearlongs to keep consistency for students and teachers while still
keeping balance in teacher schedules. For this May, we will be scheduling
for the full 10-11 year which is super-easy because you don't have a lot of
locks to work-around like we did for Spring but Class A allows you to work
these scenarios.
No problem taking that data out of CAS to our SIS, Whipple Hill.
Jonathan
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Jonathan Mergy <jmergy@lwhs.org>
Director Of Technology
Lick-Wilmerding High School
755 Ocean Ave, SF CA 94112
P:415.585.1725 x365
http://www.lwhs.org
> From: Ken Weinstein <kweinstein@maimonides.org>
> Reply-To: ISED-L <ISED-L@listserv.syr.edu>
> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:49:44 -0500
> To: ISED-L <ISED-L@listserv.syr.edu>
> Subject: Scheduling software
>
> Hi Andrew:
>
> An excellent scheduler is Class A Scheduler (www.longhousesoftware.com).
> It imports/exports nicely with most SIS's and the company will add
> features that you request. You should get a demo. It has many manual and
> automatic modes that school schedulers will appreciate. No scheduling
> module in an SIS can compare to its rich feature set and phone/email
> support. When you call you get the many who wrote the software, who was
> once an independent school scheduler. Good luck.
>
> Ken Weinstein
> General Studies Principal
> Maimonides Middle & Upper School
>
> www.maimonides.org
>
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