Class Scheduling Software That Stops Fighting You
Most class scheduling tools treat a schedule as a list of database rows. Presently treats it as a canvas. You drag classes onto the week, see exactly what's stacking on top of what, mark the blocks you're still deciding, and promote the whole thing into your live schedule when you're ready. Drafting next season stops being a multi-day ordeal.
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What makes it good
Six things the schedule builder does that most class scheduling software doesn't.
Drag-and-drop weekly canvas
The whole week, all your studios, at a glance. Drop a class onto a day, drag to resize, click to edit. You can see what's stacking onto what without having to open seven different forms.
Tentative blocks
Mark a class as not-yet-confirmed and it renders with a dashed border and a Tentative badge. You can lay out the whole season before you've committed to every detail, and see at a glance which blocks are still up in the air.
Promote in one click
When the draft schedule is ready, promote every block into a real class with one button. The draft becomes the live schedule, families can enroll, and you don't have to re-enter a single thing.
Multi-room aware
Tag each block with the studio room it's in. The canvas splits rooms into bands so you can see whether Studio A and Studio B are double-booked at 5pm. No more accidentally scheduling two ballet classes in the same room.
Biweekly cadence
Some classes only meet every other week. Set the cadence on the class and the schedule shows the alternation correctly, week A vs week B. Families see the right dates, attendance reports treat the gap weeks correctly, and you don't have to manually duplicate anything.
Student-group tags
Tag classes by the group of students they're for. "Violet," "Avril," "Isabella." The same tag system applies to your families and students, so you can ask "which classes is the Violet group taking?" and get a real answer.
Why we built the schedule builder this way
Every studio we talked to said the same thing about drafting next season's schedule: it took days, it lived in a spreadsheet, and changes meant re-doing the spreadsheet. The actual class scheduling software they were using was for the live, published schedule. The drafting part happened outside the system, in Excel, on paper, on a whiteboard. Then somebody spent half a day typing the finished schedule back into the system, one class at a time.
That's not a class scheduling problem. That's a missing tool. So we built the missing tool: a canvas where you do the drafting itself. The same place that holds your live schedule also holds your in-progress draft, with the same blocks, the same instructors, the same rooms. When you're ready to publish, you click Promote, and the draft is the schedule.
That's the only reason class scheduling software is in this product. It's the part that used to take three days and now takes an afternoon.
Simple, transparent pricing
No hidden fees. Plans scale with your student count.
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