AD ASTRA ESSENTIAL SCHEDULING

TRAINING RESOURCES

As we begin pilot testing of Essential Scheduling, the Office of the Registrar Academic Scheduling team will be updating this site frequently to develop documentation and training materials on the new tool. This page will list these resources and link to documentation created by Ad Astra for training purposes. 

Getting to Know Essential Scheduling

• Ad Astra, the company developing Essential Scheduling, have many resources available for training. We will be sharing these resources, but also creating our own tailored to our needs as a university population. Here are a few curated suggestions from the Ad Astra public resources that may be useful (links below redirect to external site):

  • • Essential Scheduling Step-by-Step Guide

      • Editing Room Assignment

      • Historical Trend Analysis

    • New Scheduling View (2026)

      • Activating New User Experience

      • Approval Workflow Process

      • FAQ for New View

Tutorial Videos

• The following videos have been developed by Ad Astra, but the Academic Scheduling will soon be developing more videos based on our own instance of Essential Scheduling:

Pilot Training

• The following presentation was presented to the Pilot group early January 2026.