For many students creating schedules for the next semester’s courses is stressful, but an Ithaca College student has launched another Web site to ease this process. Schedulizer.com debuted in 2004 at Cornell University and has more than 14,000 registered users from six universities. The Web site allows students to enter the courses they want to take and view all possible schedule combinations. “My Web site is especially good at showing students their options,” said Ross Skaliotis, creator of Schedulizer.com. “I’ve seen some other Web sites that figure out schedules for you but don’t give you all of the possibilities.” Skaliotis said the Web site allows students to schedule their classes around individual activities like work, lunch and organization meetings. He said the Web site helps students save time and provides instant feedback. “It turns something that’s a manual process into an automatic process,” he said. “Instead of using paper and writing your schedule into a grid, you can type it into a computer. It takes very little time.” Although the Web site helps students plan the times and days they want to take certain classes, Skaliotis said it is still important for students to visit counselors for advice about scheduling. “The site certainly doesn’t replace counselors,” he said. “That’s not the Web site’s goal. The site assumes you know what classes you want to take but certainly talk to counselors to find out what classes you need.” Skaliotis, who wants to work with web-based applications after he graduates, said he plans to expand the Web site to more universities in the future. “Schedulizer is more useful at larger schools because they typically have larger classes,” he said. Caroline Hodgins, kineseology junior, said she plans to use Schedulizer.com to create a course schedule for next semester. “Anything to get more information on the classes before I take them would help, so I know what I’m getting into,” she said. Skaliotis said he does not have definite plans for adding new features to the Web site, but he eventually wants to add a professor rating system. “They’re just thoughts, so we haven’t really considered implementing those yet,” he said. “I love feedback, so if there’s any feedback or suggestions from users, I want to hear it.
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