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Syllabus Scheduler

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A website along with a smartphone app that would allow for students or teachers to simply upload course syllabi to a website.The website will then create a full year very organized calendar with all assignments, papers, projects, readings etc, due. Students can then get on the website, choose their schedules and register to have the consolidated calendar (with all classes) sent to their laptop or smart phone. The calendar would be very simple but allow students to always know what is due in all of their classes. There will also be hyperlinks attached to the calendar bringing the user to the actual course syllabus to break down any assignment that is not explained in the calendar window. Teachers would also be able to easily make changes as necessary.

With this idea, students not longer have to worry about searching through pages and pages of syllabus and teachers will know that students are aware of their assignments. Leaving no excuses.

Target Market: College Students and Professors/Teachers.
Size of Market: There are 15.3 million college students in the United States. They represent one of the highest percentages of discretionary income in the nation.

Key Competition: Assignment Planner for Macs. This is a scheduler available for students to download on a Mac but assignments have to be manually added by the students in order for it to work. Syllabus Scheduler would also offer a phone app so that the calendar even when you are away from your computer.

Financial Projections: There are several ways that this idea could be profitable. Universities could buy this program for teachers and students, charge a small fee for the phone app. (around $3), or charge teachers/professors for the program individually. With 15.3 million college students and around 4000 colleges in the US there is plenty of profit potential.

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Nathan Wieler: i like this idea. it seems extremely useful and adds value to the students, the professors, and the university. in terms of execution - i think it would be absolutely key to have a great developer as your partner (assuming your not a developer) who is equally as passionate about the idea as you are and is willing to work closely with you building it. you could start with one class using it and grow from there. this is one of those ideas where its surprising doesn't exist already and is widely used - to me, that means its a good idea. but getting the prototype built and using it in one class would be the key to getting it going.

10-02-2011 @ 11:43 PM EDT · Comment

Jim Kitchen: If there are enough students wanting syllabi in this format administrators and professors will buy-in. Will be interesting to see how your business model emerges.

09-29-2011 @ 3:09 PM EDT · Comment

Douglas Baker: what is the motivator for the sale and recurring revenue and what are the expenses associated with putting the content up? selling to a university is extremely complicated and time consuming for a variety of reasons so if that is a revenue vertical being counted on and in a substantial way, be prepared for long wait times if at all. selling to students is interesting but flighty and there is the issue of reaching them and consistently getting them to stick with this tool versus alternatives.

09-28-2011 @ 10:28 PM EDT · Comment

Kal Rao is now following Syllabus Scheduler.

09-28-2011 @ 10:43 AM EDT

Matthew Wetschler is now following Syllabus Scheduler.

09-28-2011 @ 10:40 AM EDT