# Ad Astra Reviews **Vendor:** Ad Astra Information Systems **Category:** [Academic Scheduling Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/academic-scheduling) **Average Rating:** 4.5/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 52 ## About Ad Astra Ad Astra is the trusted partner of colleges and universities committed to graduating more students faster. Through data-informed planning and course scheduling, we empower institutions to remove barriers to completion while also ensuring financial sustainability.  ## Ad Astra Reviews ### 1. Great overall scheduling application with people and results in mind. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sabrina T. | Data Anaylst, Applications Systems Support, UAHS-Scheduling, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 31, 2025 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** I really value the SPACESTATION community, a gamified space where users can connect and learn. It’s a great place to share ideas, pick up tips from other schools, and see how different institutions approach scheduling. It also provides direct connections and customer support with the Ad Astra team, making the experience feel collaborative and personal. On the system side, the interface is straightforward, and the filtering tools make it easy to quickly find what I need without sorting through excessive data. Real-time updates have made scheduling far more organized and efficient. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** Some features in the current version require workarounds, but we’re optimistic about the improvements coming in the new product release. Easier event reporting and more flexible dashboards would make insights faster and more actionable. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ad Astra gives our campus one central view of all room use and scheduling activity. This transparency makes it easier for departments to plan, avoid conflicts, and coordinate events. ### 2. Unsurpassed Customer Service and Features **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christina S. | Director of Strategic Enrollment Management, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 25, 2025 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** Ad Astra equips my instructional team with timely insights and efficient schedule monitoring leading to true, data-driven decisions. When paired with the intuitive visuals, the challenging faculty conversations become much easier. Its user-friendly interface and smart-filtering options make accessing the overwhelming amount of data easy: complexity to clarity at your fingertips! And above all, Ad Astra's customer service is unsurpassed! Every question and issue is immediately addressed by the support team with a smile, and customer needs are actually considered and added to future updates so you feel heard and get what you need. You're not just a client, you're part of a supportive community. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** There are so many available reports that it can be overwhelming. My Ad Astra Client Success Lead, the Knowledge Base and the Space Station have been invaluable in guiding me to applicable reports and clarifying report options. This has helped build confidence in the reports and navigating the data. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ad Astra is helping us align our course offerings with our degree pathways. Doing this has removed some of the student blocks and bottlenecks, and decreased the time to completion. The added benefits are increased room efficiency and decreased faculty overhead. It's a win-win for all involved! ### 3. Maximizing Access and Efficiency with Ad Astra **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris P. | Executive Director: Academic Operations, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2025 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** What I appreciate most about Ad Astra's products is how they support data-informed decision making while keeping student access and success at the forefront. Tools like Monitor and Align make it easier to identify where we have high demand classes, potential scheduling conflicts and track underutilized space so we can act quickly and strategically. The platform also promotes collaboration between academic and operations teams, which helps us align our schedule with student needs and institutional goals. Ultimately, Ad Astra helps us remain data informed to be sure we offer the right classes when students need them - so that more students can succeed. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** While Ad Astra offers strong tools for strategic scheduling, some aspects of the platform an feel complex or not intuitive - especially for new users. The learning curve can slow down adoption across teams that don't use it daily. Additionally certain features or reports may require multiple steps of workarounds to get to specific insights we need, which can limit agility during peak scheduling periods. As we continue to expand our use of the platform, we'd love to see more customizable dashboards and streamlined workflows that make it easier to act on data quickly. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ad Astra is helping us solve several key challenges in academic scheduling and resource optimization. Most notably, it's improving our ability to Align course offerings with student demand. Tools like Monitor high-enrollment and wait listed courses allowing us to respond quickly by adding sections where needed. Ad Astra has also helped us improve space utilization and make smarter use of classrooms and facilities, reducing conflicts and ensuring we're using our spaces efficiently and they also support multi-term planning! Overall, Ad Astra is helping us make data informed decisions that increase student access, reduce bottlenecks, and support institutional goals. ### 4. Great Multi-Location Visibility, but Room Updates Can Be Tricky **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Bobbi S. | Executive Assistant to the President, Events Coordinator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2026 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** You can see all your locations in one location. I could immediately see what room was available. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** We had a hard time getting rooms updated when we had to change things for that location. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are no longer using Ad Astra. ### 5. Resourceful and Data-Driven Scheduling Powerhouse **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Osvaldo M. **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2025 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** I appreciate how resourceful and data-driven Ad Astra is, as it significantly helps with scheduling conflicts and room assignments within my institution. The system collects valuable data and provides insights into data trends, making it easier for me to understand various aspects of our operations. This data is particularly beneficial in promoting student progress in higher education. Additionally, Ad Astra's initial setup process was straightforward and simple, which I found highly convenient. Overall, I am very satisfied with Ad Astra in its current form and am likely to recommend it to others. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** Nothings **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ad Astra resolves scheduling conflicts and room assignments, while promoting data-driven insights and student progress in higher education. ### 6. Ad Astra is a great platform for scheduling. MAPS is a great tool. The employees are knowledgeable **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** tabitha b. | Coordinator: Curriculum and Academic Support, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2024 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** The SPACESTATION, The scheduler part for reservations with the ability to upload pictures and resources for the employees. The team took care of the implementation after receiving the information to import from Banner and our old system. The system is really easy to use. I recently started using a scheduling platform, and I couldn't be more impressed with how user-friendly it is. From the moment I logged in, the clean interface made navigation a breeze. The layout is intuitive, so I quickly found all the features I needed without any confusion. Scheduling reservation requests and managing the scheduling grid calendar has never been easier. The visual design is clear, with color-coded options that make it simple to differentiate between various events. Plus, the drag-and-drop functionality is a game changer! Overall, this platform has streamlined my scheduling process significantly. If you're looking for an easy-to-use tool that enhances productivity without the hassle, I highly recommend giving it a try! **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** A few minor glitches but nothing a ticket can't resolve. When a person has multiple accounts due to depatment move I wish the system would merge the person together. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** This system allows everyone across the campus who has access to view what is happening. I like the fact that you can click on it and see daily the classes that are scheduled and who's teaching the amount of students that are in the class. This system has some great visuals. I was able to color code the reservations by groups, etc... ### 7. Excellent Scheduling Tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michelle C. | Administrative Assistant for the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 19, 2025 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** I appreciate that all room information is located in one easy-to-navigate location. While we are scheduling classes, I often have to remind myself how many seats per room so having an easy look-up is quite helpful. The room charts that we print are easy to locate and print out. Customer service is excellent! I appreciate the many opportunities to train in Ad Astra. It is one of the best room-scheduling tools I've used. I look forward to learning more! **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** I have not run into any issues. I really enjoy the product. It is miles above the system we were previously using. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to run a room optimizer to schedule our classes is extremely helpful and cuts down on double-booking and having to go through the hassle of changing rooms. ### 8. Ad Astra like and dislike **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Iqbal H. | Senior Commercial consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2024 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** I value Ad Astra for its robust scheduling functionalities, intuitive interface, and capacity to streamline room reservations and class timetables effectively. Its real-time updates, cross-device accessibility, and seamless integration with other platforms make it a preferred choice for organizations seeking efficient resource management solutions. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** As I navigate Ad Astra, I encounter certain challenges, including its complexity in configuring and overseeing schedules. Moreover, occasional technical issues and constraints on customization options may arise. Additionally, some reports and features may not facilitate efficient data collection. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ad Astra primarily solves the challenges related to scheduling and resource management. By providing a centralized platform for managing room bookings, class schedules, and other resources, Ad Astra streamlines administrative processes and improves overall efficiency. This benefit directly translates into smoother operations, reduced scheduling conflicts, and optimized resource utilization for me and my organization. ### 9. Navigating the path **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2025 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** Ad Astra's predictive analytics help us ensure that classes are scheduled when students need them (both according to their degree pathways and course maps and at the times of day and modality that students are looking for). The reporting is also helpful in building and monitoring those pathways. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** Some of the analytics take a bit of tweaking to get right and the toxic course pairings require quite a bit of human analytics to decipher the correlations from the causation. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are better able to schedule the correct number of sections at the times/days/modalities that students need. ### 10. Ad Astra has been a huge part of our team's experience in the Office of Events. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aubrey C. | Assistant Director of University Events & Conferences, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2025 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** The integration of equipment, spaces, reservations, meetings with different classification factors, timelines, setup and teardown windows, etc. is by FAR our favorite thing. We have really tried to centralize things, and Ad Astra has allowed us to do so in a seamless way. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** There are a lot of features in Ad Astra that are helpful. However, sometimes, there's so much going on that I really wish I could speak with a representative about specifics. They do have a chat feature, which they do respond to, but sometimes I would like to be able to pick up the phone to communicate, as we do with some of our other software. However, All-in-all, Ad Astra is a wonderful product that I do recommend! **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** The siloed, paper, an archaic scheduling across campus--by allowing us a platform to integrate all departments, etc. into one location. ### 11. Great Tool for Event Scheduling **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 08, 2025 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** Adastra is excellent for planning and scheduling events. It is a comprehensive, intuitive program that anyone can learn to use. Scheduling multiple events is simple. Whether it's a large gathering or a small meeting, having all the information accessible at once is exceptionally beneficial. Staying organized is fast and efficient with the use of automated reminders and the notifications feature. Adastra is a fantastic tool for event scheduling, suited for a wide range of events, from meetings to conferences, ensuring that everything runs smoothly. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** When doing a search in the scheduling grid, it does not maintain the selected features, i.e., displaying by week, day, or month. In addition, printing the scheduling grid it does not print properly. The margins are off so the days of the week do not display over the correct column. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** N/A ### 12. Ad Astra is the best! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** William B. | Sr. Associate Registrar, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2025 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** The family feeling they give you from day one. Ad Astra has everything we need when scheduling room assignments for our courses. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** The downside is we are on an older Astra Schedule that needs us to move to their new platform. However, they are always great when dealing with any issues. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** They are always evolving to bring the best and newest features to their clients. ### 13. Best Program for Scheduling! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jess P. | Academic Coordinator, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 18, 2025 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** Amazing! So easy to use and have never had any problems using the program. It only has the features you need to schedule. Trust me, you totally need this! **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** too any features I don't use and difficulty between scheduling programs **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's helping the university schedule classes and the program is so easy to use. ### 14. Very useful software for our campus **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2025 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** Ad Astra has helped our school with academic planning and scheduling, streamlining processes, improving student success, and enhancing financial sustainability through data-driven insights and efficient resource allocation. It has helped us most with scheduling as we have 10 different class schedule "semesters" and lots of rooms. It has been helpful for those who need rooms to see room availability in real time. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** There isn't anything we do not like about the software. It has been helpful all around. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allowing our users to see room availability in real time. Not having 1 person doing the scheduling. ### 15. Works great for scheduling **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Taylor M. | Registrar Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 11, 2024 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** It is incredibly easy to see the whole day on the scheduling grid. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** Allowing for others to cancel their events after they've been approved. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving double booked rooms ### 16. Final Exam Schedule Efficiency **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 25, 2025 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** We use Astra Schedule daily to schedule room reservations for classes and events. Additionally, it has been such a benefit by producing clarity and efficiency in our final exam scheduling process. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** While the Scheduling Grid reveals classes scheduled for a term, it does not show the status of the class, Pending or Active. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** Finding available rooms for events ### 17. Makes my work life easier **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kaleigh D. | Operations Coordinator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 02, 2024 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** Ad Astra makes scheduling a breeze, take the complexity out of things. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** Nothing at the moment. Excited to use it more. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** Helps me to schedule meetings and events easily. ### 18. Great Product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cheryl O. | Operations Manager, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** Ease of use and the ability to enter schedules quickly. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** Search feature could be a little for user friendly **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** Can easily see all rooms scheduled ### 19. Works for what I use it for. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 05, 2023 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** After spending a lot of time stumbling through I am figure out the useful features. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** Not as user friendly as I would like, took a lot of stumbling around to figure it out. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** I can see what type of rooms are officially available, when, and what equipment is available. ### 20. Great Product for Event Scheduling **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2024 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** Allows our team to schedule events and keep track of our resources **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** Sometimes its laggy and if an event gets too big it can crash loosing all the progress you have done **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** It allows Registrar and the Events office to work off the same system ### 21. Good experience so far **Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Martecia C. | Admissions Counselor/Minority Recuiter and Adjunct Instructor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 03, 2025 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** I like the product. i have no problems or concerns with anything I have encountered so far **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** No complaints thus far. There is nothing negative for me to report at the moment **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** They are helping is with scheduling. ### 22. Very user friendly and affordable! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 02, 2025 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** The software is a breeze to use and a lifesaver! It makes scheduling so much easier for both faculty and students alike. I highly recommend giving it a try. Once you do, you'll never look back! **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** I'm at a loss of words. It's a great program with a number of features. Perhaps it makes life to easy! **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solves the problems of academic scheduling and planning conflicts. ### 23. Flexible, friendly, and mission driven **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jay J. | Vice President, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 28, 2024 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** Ad Astra is extremely easy to work with. They are exceptionally friendly and helpful when working on solutions to our issues with students, systems, and software. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** Everything I've ever asked for from Ad Astra was addressed and handled in a professional manner. I can't thing of anything glaring that I would dislike. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** We had a cumbersome and outdated system for scheduling classes that was not student friendly and did not lend itself to student success without a significant lift by our staff. Ad Astra's product helped us overhaul our processes and business model to where we are now more student focused and our staff can provide a higher level of service to all institutional stakeholders rather than be bogged down in a months long scheduling exercise. ### 24. A company that cares **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David S. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 06, 2024 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** The customer service is second-to-none. Imagine a company of socially-responsible, friendly, data nerds who really just want to change the face of higher ed for the better for students. They have lofty goals backed by amazing analytics engines and they make me believe we really can make a difference to the future of scheduling in higher education. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** Nothing comes to mind. They transparently address feedback and are very amenable to updates to the product to help users. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our schedule was a mess. With Astra, we've been able to get our classes in the correct room sizes, identify which courses needed more seats (and which less) and generally adapt the schedule to better reflect student need. As a result, we've seen a growth in average SCH from our students. ### 25. Excellent Customer Service, the Product has downsides but is getting better **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Chris M. | IT Business Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2024 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** The Ad Astra Support is very helpful and always does a good job of supporting the product. The product is relatively easy to use, and is multi-faceted. The products are improving and demos of upcoming products always look promising. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** The current version of the product looks a little outdated. The functionality is all there, but it could be presented in a different package. However, once you get used to the product it is very user friendly. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ad Astra makes course scheduling very easy, and lets you schedule classes. ### 26. The customer service and implementation team are the best! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jennifer W. | Assistant Registrar, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** The implementation team was great when we implemented Align. The customer service team is always ready to help. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** I do not find anything not helpful. I just wish we had the funding to add other components. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** Giving us the tools to evaluate our schedule to make sure we are offering what is needed for students to complete. ### 27. Ad Astra Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 07, 2024 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** The ease of using our courses to target all aspects of scheduling and enrollment. Aside from Align and Monitor, they provide an array of reports. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** At this time, they do not have a way to set up users into groups. I believe it is in the works. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** They are continually improving their site. On top of that, they have a useful support center to find common questions, etc. ### 28. Simply, smooth, slick, intuitive and perfection **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2024 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** Ad Astra is a powerful tool to meet the future needs of higher education. The ability to bring together challenging data that can make a difference in student success **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** Sometimes the CS help simply sends back links to FAQ webpages w/o support or details. They also regularly say "it's fixed" but do not share what issue was and that ins important part of solution processing. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** creating a 1 year and future 2 year annual schedule ### 29. I love the ease of the product and the Ad Astra team is amazing to work with. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2024 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** The scheduling platform. It is user-friendly. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** I can't say anything bad! The products are amazing! **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** Schedule and room conflicts. ### 30. Great product! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 05, 2024 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** While I am fairly new to higher education and the software, Ad Astra has been very easy to work with. Their team is great too. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** While I am fairly new to the software, I have not found anything I dislike **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** As a college, Ad Astra is assisting with the overall scheduling and goals of implementing an annual schedule. ### 31. Reach for the stars with Ad Astra! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christopher G. | Associate Registrar, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** Astra Schedule is a good classroom scheduling tool. We've enjoyed the integration and live syncing of the data, which has been very helpful. Controlling security by the user and by the location provides a lot of options. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** Overall, Ad Astra software, as well as their support is very good. The focus is on academic scheduling, so some of the even features are not as developed, but that is not the focus. My main wish was that the data was easier to get to. Crystal reports needs to be used, which I would love if I could access it directly through SQL Developer or similar software. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** Astra Schedule allows us to manage classroom scheduling with integration to our SIS (Banner). Security can be controlled by user and location, which provides a lot of options for both viewing or scheduling rights. ### 32. Awesome Product, Superior Customer Service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sam H. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 07, 2023 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** Astra Schedule is a dream come true for those who have to schedule academic classes. It truly shreded *days* of work hand placing sections. Its Events part is flexible and capable, surpassing our SIS' ability to deal with extracurricular activities. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** Sadly, inconsistencies between sections of the application exist. Popping open list items in new tabs may, or may not, be supported. I realize that the foregoing is a systems resources issue, but it's a step back from the standalone version, IMO. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing section scheduling for over 40000 students across five physical campuses while juggling a host of community, academic and industry led events. ### 33. Good **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Paul H. | Assistant Director, Office of Institutional Effectiveness, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 06, 2023 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** When you get a person in a conversation, you usually get insights that you would have missed, otherwise. The products (including the algorithms) are very useful and unique. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** Perhaps the chat bot becomes more useful with ChatGPT4's arrival. Sometimes, it can be difficult to find a human in the middle of the day. This doesn't strike me as a unique issue, FWIW. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our state requires that our classrooms are in use. We have to monitor our room usage, and part of our state funding depends on a good score. Ad Astra helps us get that funding. ### 34. Ad Astra **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Christie R. | Associate Registrar, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** Ad Astra is more than a software company; they are all things positive: reliable, dedicated, energetic and work hard for our institution to help us help others. Ad Astra worked hard with us during unprecedented times and helped us navigate uncharted waters while doing whatever it took to help us get to find the solutions we needed to thrive **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** Scheduling is a niche, and Ad Astra works hard to ensure you aren't alone during the implementation. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have had the good fortune of working with Ad Astra in various ways. With the number of jobs institutions are being asked to do with little to no additional resources, it is imperative to capitalize on using the right tools, and Ad Astra is just that tool. Texas Public Institutions are given a Space Usage Efficiency (SUE) score to ensure appropriate classroom and class laboratory utilization. In 2012, our office began fully utilizing Ad Astra’s optimizer and saw an increase of 77% in our SUE score. We continue to use it 10 years later every scheduling term, allowing us to schedule courses efficiently, effectively, and quickly into classroom and class labs. We can schedule over 3,000 courses into rooms within a couple of hours, and departments are happy with the room assignments! With the help of Ad Astra, we created a Strategic Scheduling Team that meets once a month to review course data with Align with Predict. They take us on a deep dive and help departments understand what is needed for students to have a clear path toward success (and a degree!) ### 35. We love Ad Astra! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aubrey C. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** Ad Astra is incredibly helpful in the way that it helps you not only streamline your scheduling processes but also keep all of the different entities and departments, in our case, connected through notifications, requests, and communication. We love Ad Astra for many reasons, but this is the reason that always stands out to me. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** I think that the way that Ad Astra sometimes has "outages," for lack of a better word, where certain individuals are locked out for a brief period of time, is probably the thing that we dislike the most at our institution. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ad Astra is allowing our institution to streamline our processes and work to be consistent and transparent in what we have going on around campus and how we can best serve our students and faculty through events, classes, and scheduling. ### 36. Astra Schedule **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ashley V. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 10, 2023 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** I'm not a primary user of Astra Schedule. I'm application support but I can say that it's extremely user-friendly and the support that we've received from their help team has been great! **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** I think our implementation could have gone a little smoother, which caused us to not be successful in the first 6-7 months of using the scheduler. We've had some trials and errors that we needed to work through but I think we've mostly worked through that and are successfully using this tool in a way that works best for us. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** Astra is getting our space scheduling in one spot instead of many different tools. It's also removed the need to create crazy schedules in excel. ### 37. Director, Conference & Event Services **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Becky D. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2023 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** The support when solving a scheduling challenge or adding a new report. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** It all works very well. I do wish the report function was more user friendly. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** SO MANY! Easy to schedule space, track inventory, set up and tear down times. ### 38. Great tool and great service! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** I like the depth of information that is provided about our scheduling and how deeply we can drill down to see our enrollmet from different perspectives. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** I'm sure there are more ways to view reports that we have not even had time to explore yet. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps us to predict demand for our courses so that sections can be added or cancelled. ### 39. Great Product, Even Better Customer Service **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Angela G. | Adjunct Instructor, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** The product itself is wonderful and PERFECT for classroom scheduling, however, the customer service and support team are why I recommend it over any other. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** I honestlyy cannot think of something that I dislike. All of my concerns or issues are always address promptly. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** IT is helping me show room utilization to big players at my university and influencing space construction and course scheduling decisions ### 40. Easy solution for academic scheduling. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Courtney Y. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** The platform is easy to use and helps to eliminate silos in communication. I feel more connected with constituents and schedule successful meetings at convienient times. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** I have enjoyed it and definitely would recommend it to others. Sometimes those that are tech-phobic are tentative to try at first, but even they seem to pick it up. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeping people connected and providing an easy way to schedule meetings with all participants. It takes the guessing out of scheduling and eliminates the back and forth e-mails. ### 41. Been using Ad Astra for months, and it is super helpful. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Makayla W. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** I like how easy it is to schedule classes. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** I dislike scheduling final exams on Ad Astra. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** Double booking problems. ### 42. Room to Exist **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marcus C. | Academic Support Specialist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** I love the ease of requesting room assignments. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** I wish there were a filter such as favorites to bring up rooms that we regularly request. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** It ensures that our students and instructors are provided with rooms without the hassle of being double-booked. ### 43. Great product for planning **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lori T. | Associate Director, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** Ad Astra is a great tool for helping plan academic scheduling needs. Better planning helps our students graduate on time! **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** We've had a great experience with Ad Astra--no complaints so far! **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** Making sure we offer the right classes at the right time to make sure students graduate on time. ### 44. Standing in the crowd **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 09, 2023 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** I do not primarily use Ad Astra on our campus, but I have seen the amazing impact it is having. From scheduling our courses to scheduling events, it makes life a little easier! **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** Nothing, at this time, stands out that I would say I dislike. I hope to be more of a direct user in the future! **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** Room utilization - again, I am not the primary user, but have heard only great things from colleagues. ### 45. Scheduling Grid **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Lori D. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** It is easy to access and navigate. A lot of information at your fingertips. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** Some areas I have not worked with a lot would be nice to have step-by-step directions. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** Being able to find rooms being used all in one place. The reports are very beneficial as well. ### 46. Academic Scheduling **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** P. K. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** The ability to take out of date practices and make them applicable to today's scheduling. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** We are new to the system and have not had a complaint yet. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** AD Astra is helping us with Scheduler and MAP, bringing our processes up to 2023 standards. ### 47. Ad Astra **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 13, 2018 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** How easy it is to use and makes scheduling classroom/event space easier **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** That it doesn't automatically connect with Outlook. You have to manually merge those. **Recommendations to others considering Ad Astra:** You won't be disappointed! **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** Scheduling classroom and event spaces more effectively. I can easily pick rooms based on what amenities are needed and size. ### 48. Great Campus Tool with Neat Features **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Hannah S. | Collegiate Division Coordinator, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2018 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** Currently, we use this system for our campus classroom management. I think it's underutilized in many aspects but some nice features are: detailed information about classroom spaces (including pictures, classroom features), actual scheduling details for the rooms, a space to see which rooms are available within certain parameters, a form to submit a room reservation request. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** It's hard to say because I'm not sure the breadth of what the product can do. I do believe we're underutilizing the features available to us (there's an option to pull up data about room use and historical reservations that could be really interesting). **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** This has helped the Registrar's Office manage campus classrooms and meeting spaces. It allows us to better utilize the spaces available. ### 49. Ad Astra is a great tool for scheduling events and optimizing classroom utilization **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 12, 2017 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** The ability is optimize classroom utilization is a nice aspect of this software. There is also a platinum analytics portion that recommend the most efficient use of space for all campus space. **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** The interface can be slow and complicated for new users. It is a job to get setup and implemented, but they are equipped to assist with this. They have a cloud implementation, now that greatly reduces setup and upgrade inefficiencies. **Recommendations to others considering Ad Astra:** Ad Astra will require someone with technical knowledge to set up. Their support is also very helpful and friendly. They will assist in getting the setup complete and any issues that the user may have in the future. They have service plans available to maintain and keep the software updated to the newest versions. They are know running from the cloud, which greatly simplifies the initial setup, implementation, and upgrades. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use the software to optimize our classroom scheduling and also to schedule events. ### 50. Great website **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Peter P. | Commuter Assistant, Higher Education, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 20, 2018 **What do you like best about Ad Astra?** Creates requests easily throughout a system **What do you dislike about Ad Astra?** The necessary internet connection. **What problems is Ad Astra solving and how is that benefiting you?** Better communication throughout staff ## Ad Astra Discussions - [What is Ad Astra used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-ad-astra-used-for) - 1 comment - [View Ad Astra pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/ad-astra/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-16+13%3A06%3A57+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=75fc4288-c6cc-4f5b-8685-55860c623ab7&secure%5Btoken%5D=33159f3f6e96c57d5b0d18a69987f3bd529b3e1c114314d695bed591a974b4ed&format=llm_user) ## Ad Astra Integrations - [Ellucian Student](https://www.g2.com/products/ellucian-student/reviews) - [Oracle PeopleSoft](https://www.g2.com/products/oracle-peoplesoft/reviews) - [PeopleSoft Campus Solutions](https://www.g2.com/products/peoplesoft-campus-solutions/reviews) ## Ad Astra Features **Scheduling** - Master Schedule Creation - Course Scheduling - Conflict Resolution **Communication** - Interface - Notifications **Administration** - Reporting - Integrations ## Top Ad Astra Alternatives - [Series25](https://www.g2.com/products/series25/reviews) - 3.8/5.0 (12 reviews) - [ConexED](https://www.g2.com/products/conexed-conexed/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (190 reviews) - [OASIS](https://www.g2.com/products/oasis/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (13 reviews)