Table of Contents
Overview
Why Coursedog
How Your Role Impacts What You See & Do
Introductory Materials for all New Users
Additional Resources for Admins Only
Additional Resources for End Users
Overview
Whether your institution is new to Coursedog’s Event Scheduling solution or they’ve been using Coursedog for years but you’re a new admin or end user, you’ve come to the right place.
Use this page to understand the net benefits of Coursedog, why your institution is using it – and how you can get better acquainted with the product.
Why Coursedog
Overview
Coursedog’s Event Scheduling solution enables your institution to make the most out of your campus space with:
A user-friendly public events website that makes it easy to promote events to students and staff.
Custom event request forms to collect relevant details for all event types.
Dynamic workflows that ensure event requests are seen by the right people.
Automated email notifications to help accelerate event management.
A requests dashboard that allows you to easily view and vote on those requests.
Easy-to-send contracts and auto-generated invoices, plus the ability to track payment progress.
A wide variety of out-of-the-box reports to help you stay on top of events and resources – download any to share with stakeholders and even subscribe to stay informed.
Sync your events with your course calendar to optimize space utilization (for Academic Scheduling customers).
Testimonials
Check out this video to see what our customers have to say about Coursedog.
How Your Role Impacts What You See & Do
Admins/Super Admins are generally the ones setting up your User Interface (UI).
How they set up things and which roles they assign to which users – and how they assign permissions to those roles – impacts what all other users can see and do in the platform.
Anytime you can’t see or do something you need to, reach out to your institution’s admin.
Introductory Materials for all New Users
Check out the entire "Welcome to Coursedog" section of Freshdesk, particularly:
Not all institutions handle support tickets the same way, but anyone who can submit a support ticket via our Help Center should be familiar with the following (ask your admin if you aren’t sure this applies to you):
Our product walk-throughs, including: