I’m not sure how big of a problem selecting classes is for students, and how much it can be automated, but now there’s a tool specifically solving this problem. CourseRank tracks scheduling conflicts, together with some other Interesting features. For example, it gathers course/professor reviews, workload estimations and aggregates questions and answers.
Right now the selection of universities is not that great. It makes sense since the service is specifically tailored to each university, so I can imagine the implementation can take a while.
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Hi Jose,
Thanks for writing about CourseRank!
Right now, we are at 30 schools but we are scaling up fast so stay tuned.
Let me know if you have any ideas on how to make CourseRank better.
Andrew
Okay, I’ll just check this out before making some opinions.
I am currently planning to get an online post-grad degree. I hope Course Rank would get me into the right university for me. The last time I inquired for admission, I was turned down because of my location (Asia). I don’t think that mattered at all. Nonetheless, I am still very interested in doing post-grad studies online because I can’t move away yet from my present job.
Thanks for this rich post!
Hmm, this seems quite interesting. I’m sure it’d be very useful for lazy university students, which there appear to be a lot of! Haha. Keep up the good work on this, Andrew…
Course Rank – - Such an interesting features! I’m totally with you on this. This is really beneficial to the students especially those who are still undecided. Thanks for sharing.