# What is the best academic scheduling software for managing courses across multiple departments and campus locations?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">For managing courses across multiple departments and campus locations, I'd point to <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/ad-astra/reviews"><strong>Ad Astra</strong></a> first, and the review evidence backs that up rather than just the vendor's pitch. Here's how the real candidates in <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/categories/academic-scheduling">academic scheduling software</a> compare:</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true"></p><ol>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/ad-astra/reviews"><strong>Ad Astra</strong></a> (4.5/5, 52 reviews, Leader tier): an assistant director of university events specifically praised how it integrates "equipment, spaces, reservations, meetings with different classification factors" across a campus, and another reviewer liked seeing all locations in one place. Reviewers here skew mid-market and enterprise institutions (about 94% combined), which lines up with multi-campus use.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/series25/reviews"><strong>Series25</strong></a> (3.8/5, 12 reviews): built by CollegeNET specifically for cross-campus event and course scheduling, with one Higher Education reviewer calling event creation "simple and intuitive," though the evidence is thinner, older, and includes reviewers outside registrar-type roles.</li>
</ol><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true"></p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">I'd skip <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/myclinicalexchange-by-healthstream/reviews"><strong>myClinicalExchange</strong></a> and <a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/inplace-software-inplace-software/reviews"><strong>InPlace Software</strong></a> for this specific job. Both show up in the same G2 category, but their reviews are entirely about scheduling clinical rotations at hospitals, not classrooms or departments, and neither reviewer base mentions cross-campus course scheduling at all.</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true"></p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">For anyone running courses across more than two campuses, has Ad Astra's setup held up as you've added locations, or did it get harder to manage at scale?</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true"></p>

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&lt;p&gt;Honestly for multi-department and multi-campus course scheduling, Ad Astra is the one reviewers actually use for exactly that, they mention a central view across the whole campus and aligning course offerings with degree pathways across multiple terms. One reviewer specifically liked seeing all locations in one place. The honest caveat from reviews: it can feel complex for people who aren&#39;t in it daily, and one noted room updates could be fiddly. If your need is more student appointment booking than course timetabling, that&#39;s a different tool entirely. Are you scheduling course sections and rooms, or student meetings? That really changes the shortlist.&lt;/p&gt;

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