About Coursedog

Our Mission Is to Break Down Barriers to Student Success

Coursedog is the Intelligent Academic Operations Platform, empowering academic administrators to support on-time completions and operational excellence.

Serving 300+ Campuses with 2.5M+ Students
St. Cloud State University

“Using Coursedog’s workflow logic and custom decision function we’ve created a variety of “expedited” workflow pathways in specific scenarios. In our old process, there was only one pathway and users were accustomed to it being rigid and inflexible.”

Dr. William Cook

Professor of Biological Sciences & University Curriculum Coordinator

Parker University

“I love that the Coursedog curriculum pulls directly out of our SIS and that it is the one place that I need to update. Now with changes going into a workflow, approved changes are now correct in the SIS and Coursedog for the catalog. When the curriculum council disbursed word documents with approved course descriptions or changes, they didn’t always get updated in every place.”

Andi Repp

Senior Director and Registrar

Northern Arizona University

"Coursedog has provided us with a system to ensure best practices are being utilized for both processes and policies which has assisted in making our course scheduling much more efficient. Coursedog is successful because of the flexible and collaborative approach they have taken in partnering with our institution, and we are excited to expand our partnership to further streamline our academic operations."

Ian Wischmeier

Registrar

Lehigh Carbon Community College

“We believe that Coursedog’s software will help us go from seven hours per change to three hours per change. Based on an average number of changes in a year, we foresee saving +580 hours every year.”

James Ayrton

Associate Dean of Curriculum, Assessment, and Articulation

John Carroll University

“Since the beginning, the relationship with the people at Coursedog has been one of mutual understanding and respect. Our sense of urgency, concern, interest, and desire to learn is matched by those at Coursedog. Additionally, when we need Coursedog personnel to be patient, they do so without question. The response to a problem is, many times, more important than the problem itself. Our contacts at Coursedog know how to respond quickly.”

Gabriela Wanless

Assistant Registrar for Catalog and Scheduling

Brigham Young University

“We really like the fact that Coursedog is instantly validating our rules, and showing the conflicts. I really like the data reports – it's live data.”

Laura Chapman

Curriculum and Class Scheduling Specialist

Pratt Institute

“It is very intuitive to use. We have some other software products that aren’t easy to use and it is hard to get people to use them. We’ve found with Coursedog that they are intuitive to use and to set-up.”

Luke Phillips

Registrar

Ashland University

"The quantifiable impact was just the ability to move the scheduling out of our office into other departments closer to where the action is. They know better what they're trying to accomplish, what classes they need to offer, all the uniquenesses of rooms and those kinds of things."

Mark Britton

Registrar

Illinois Central College

"The culture has improved with our faculty since implementation. They embraced using Coursedog for their curriculum. It was very tedious to look at course and program proposal revisions using our homegrown system. Now, when a new faculty member decides to do a program revision, all they have to do is log on and follow the prompts. Coursedog has also saved us a lot of time by not having to hold a lot of tutorials or videos to teach our faculty/staff how to submit their curriculum. We have noticed how much happier faculty is when they realize how easy Coursedog makes this process."

Stacy Gehrig

Dean, Curriculum and Scheduling

Laguna College of Art & Design

“(Coursedog) was definitely more intuitive. It's a fairly easy system to use and the number one reason that we went with the system is to know how much space we have and how much space we need. Now, we're able to actually quantify our space numbers presented to the Board and easily make a case for additional space. I can go, well, we're using 72 percent of our space on these days, or we've got space here.”

Laura Patrick

Registrar and Director of Institutional Research

Minnesota State Community & Technical College

“Coursedog is enabling us to empower students to really take ownership over their schedule. It’s going to be incredible to have the ability to put together a schedule that really matches the needs of our student demographics.”

Alicia Carley

Dean of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Oklahoma State University

“I'm really excited to work with our CSM to propose and implement new tools or updates to Coursedog that could not only benefit OSU but other institutions as well. OSU has really prided itself on not raising tuition rates for several years in a row, and at the heart of that is a lot of cooperation between different departments and offices to make data-based decisions. I think Coursedog could provide similar analytics and data to other Oklahoma institutions to achieve similar results”

Jennifer Ferguson

Course Management & Classroom Scheduling Coordinator, Registrar’s Office

Catawba College

"It has empowered the faculty to think more intentionally about what they're offering and when they're offering it, rather than just rolling the prior semester or prior year schedule. Our previous process was very manual. We now empower one user in each academic division to load their classes rather than having a full-time Registrar's Office staff member completely build the class schedule off a spreadsheet."

Christine Lynn

Associate Dean, Ketner School of Business

Our Story

Coursedog's founding story is rooted in the desire to help students achieve their highest goals.

In 2018, Coursedog's co-founders and then college students, Justin Wenig and Nick Diao, were frustrated by how difficult it was to get into the classes they needed to graduate on time.

After speaking with provosts and registrars in higher education to better understand academic scheduling, they came away with a vision that permeates the company today.

We believe higher ed is the world's greatest engine for opportunity...

Higher education is the key to promoting socioeconomic mobility.

A study by the Postsecondary Value Commission found that nearly two-thirds of individuals born into the lowest income bracket who attend college reach the middle class or above.1

In addition to the expected economic benefits, many individuals report 'wellbeing' as an anticipated outcome of the impact of a postsecondary degree.2

...however, the value proposition of higher education is under pressure

Despite the opportunity that postsecondary education unlocks, the number of people attributing value to a higher education degree is shrinking.3

Institutions are struggling to...

Support on-time completions

Nationally, only 37 percent of students enrolled in higher education institutions will complete their degree. This number is even lower for Black (23%), Latinx (24%), and low-income learners (26%).4

Institutions have inadvertently created barriers to completion, including unclear degree pathways and misalignment of programs & academic schedules with student demand, which create course access issues.

These barriers to completion are a leading cause of early dropouts.

Operate efficiently

Institutions using legacy technology struggle to operate efficiently.

Our research shows that university administrators are spending 60% of their time on manual, often duplicative, data entry and very few have the right data for decision-making. For example, the average campus could have 4-6 different tools to support the process of going from course proposal to registration, creating unnecessary manual work.

In addition, institutions struggle to make data-driven decisions about course and program offerings that bolster financial health. There is no single source of truth to understand course demand and which degree programs are most cost-effective for the institution.

...and we believe that higher education’s value will become stronger than ever with modern software

Coursedog is an integrated academic operations platform which helps higher ed maximize operational efficiency, innovate with data and accelerate student success.

Today, we partner with 300+ institutions to provide:

Curriculum, Catalog & Syllabus Management
Academic & Event Scheduling
Faculty Workload Management
Course Demand Projections & Curriculum Analytics
Assessment & Accreditation Management

...accelerating pathways to on-time completion & supporting campus financial health.

...and when our partners succeed, the world changes for the better

Student sucesss

With Coursedog, students can access the information, requirements, and courses they need to complete their programs of study on time.

Eliminate barriers to completion resulting from manual, siloed academic operations.
Help more students complete their programs of study faster, resulting in a lower financial burden.
Enable students to reap the return on investment of their higher education in less time.

Institution success

Institutions that adopt Coursedog's Intelligent Academic Operations Platform drive operational efficiencies and move the needle on retention, completion, and operational excellence goals.

Ensure accuracy across the curriculum lifecycle to empower administrators to better serve students.
Reduce costs and increase efficiencies by simplifying technology and process in a single, unified platform.
Eliminate hidden requirements that inhibit transparency and completion due to siloed data and operations

Student success

According to a report by the Postsecondary Value Commission, “Postsecondary value is about both earning a decent wage and building a stronger and fairer democracy,” emphasizing that the benefits of college completion extend beyond the learner themselves.

In its ideal form, higher ed promotes equitable outcomes for students, while also having, "a tangible payoff for society in terms of a stronger economy, an increased tax base, a more diverse and prepared workforce across middle- and high-skill jobs, a healthier populace, and less reliance on the federal government."

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Resources

1, 2, 4 Dancy, K., Rorison, J., Engle, J., Gray Parker, A., Voight, M., Eckerson Peters, E., DiBenedetto, K., Roberson, A. J., & Mugglestone, K. (2021). (rep.). Equitable Value: Promoting Economic Mobility and Social Justice Through Postsecondary Education . Postsecondary Value Commission. Retrieved from https://www.postsecondaryvalue.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/PVC-Final-Report-FINAL.pdf

3, 5 Marken, S. (2021). (rep.). Ensuring a More Equitable Future: Exploring the Relationship Between Wellbeing and Postsecondary Value. Postsecondary Value Commission. Retrieved from https://www.postsecondaryvalue.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/PVC-Marken-FINAL-7.2.pdf