We are introducing new features this month to increase capacity on school scheduling teams this spring. Following a limited release last year, these features have been fine-tuned with the help of our partners’ testing and feedback and are ready for the entire Abl community!

Advanced Course Recommendations

Ensuring Meaningful Academic Intensity for Every Student
Boosting counseling team capacity, this new feature leverages AI to offer actionable course recommendations based on students’ transcripts and course request data. Which these recommendations, scheduling teams can easily identify areas where students would thrive with an upgrade to advanced courses, such as Honors or AP.

• Personalized Recommendations: Advanced Course Recommendations provide personalized insights, ensuring each student has a clear path to meaningful academic intensity.
• Driven by Predictive Analytics: Aligned with Abl’s research-backed Academic Intensity Measure, the recommendations are highly predictive of student success in college and career

Action Plan Tracker

Monitoring Progress Towards Readiness Goals
The Action Plan Tracker is a personalized goal-tracking system designed to measure progress towards specific college and career readiness goals outlined in scheduling teams’ Abl Action Plans. Fueled by real-time data, this tool empowers teams to analyze course requests and enrollments for the upcoming academic year, comparing them to the current year.

• Dynamic Analysis: The Action Plan Tracker facilitates dynamic analysis, enabling teams to easily identify areas where progress may be stalled.
• Informed Decision-Making: With this information at their fingertips, teams can make prompt and informed decisions to realign scheduling efforts, ensuring they stay on the right track to meet their objectives.

Abl is proud to introduce these new tools that support districts leverage their schedules increase college and career readiness for all students. Our heartfelt gratitude goes out to our partners for their collaboration in testing and providing feedback, enabling us to bring these features to the entire Abl community. Here’s to a more strategic and efficient scheduling season in 2024!