March 11, 2009 Davis, CA - Designing the perfect schedule made easy - An overview of class scheduling websites (http://www.theaggie.org/article/3262)
The Aggie
Written by MEGAN ELLIS
Published March 11, 2009
This is second pass week, a chance for students to perfect their spring quarter schedule. Websites such as Siscast and Campus Destinations' Classifier aim to simplify the scheduling process.
Campus Destinations: Classifier (campusdestinations.com)
Campus Destinations is a website that includes not only a simplified schedule-maker application, but also a list of local restaurants and places in the town of your university. Students can also shop for low-price textbooks and calculate their GPA on the website.
"Classifiers is an application that we have created for students in order to maximize their weekly schedule," said Eric Stromberg, vice president of expansion for Campus Destinations. "You can even use [Classifiers] to schedule class events, club events and sports events.
"Once you have created your schedule, you can save it under your user name on Campus Destinations and share it with your friends who are on Campus Destinations," Stromberg said.
While the Classifier application does not provide teacher or course reviews, it can organize your schedule around events as well as mark which classes are required for the user's major.
"The main function of [Classifier] is that students can access their class list and mark courses as either required or optional. Our system will highlight, in red, the classes that are required. If you have a conflict in your schedule, like say a club meeting on Wednesdays, our system will tell you what classes fit your schedule," Stromberg said.
Campus Destinations was launched by Duke University students in 2005 and became incorporated in 2006; Classifiers rolled into UC Davis in February. According to Stromberg, 250 UC Davis students used the Classifiers application within four days of its introduction to the campus.
"I think that the most important thing on our website is Classifiers. It can save students a lot of time. College students are always pressed for time, so hopefully, Classifiers is something that will help them manage their course load," Stromberg said.
Pamela Orebaugh, a sophomore English and film studies major said that such websites as Siscast and Campus Destinations helped with scheduling difficulties.
"Using [those websites] is better because you're not allowed to have time conflicts when you schedule your classes on Sisweb. [They] help find your schedule so that you don't have time conflicts," Orebaugh said.
About Campus Destinations
Campus Destinations is a leading information services company for college campuses and college-based communities. Since 2005, the company has operated successfully to save students both time and money. College students and the local communities benefit from multiple products and services including proprietary mapping technologies and its student discount card- the Black Card. Campus Destinations is a rapidly-growing company servicing over 40 universities. For more information, please visit www.CampusDestinations.com.
Campus Destinations, Inc.
#655, 762 9th Street
Durham, NC 27705
Contact: press@campusdestinations.com
