Ruby on Rails project to allow University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign students to collaboratively plan class schedules together, both in the long-term and for individual semesters.

Vision: Collaboration and working in small groups in courses is an important aide to learning and succeeding in college. However, class sizes are increasing and the number of TAs are decreasing. As a result, discussion sections with small group settings have more or less disappeared. Creating these small group environments has become more difficult for the average student at the university.

Our solution to this problem is SoCo, the Social Course Planner. This tool allows students to collaboratively plan their course schedules so that they may be able to register for the same courses as their friends. By doing this, they can form productive study groups, and keep these study groups throughout courses and even throughout their stay at the University.

SoCo will also help students to effectively plan their 4 year schedule. This will allow students to optimally schedule their required courses to not only allow for graduation in 4 years, but to make sure that they will be taking courses during the same semester as their friends. It will also help students to plan ahead for prerequisites.

Other features such as a course review system, automatic semester scheduling, help registering on UI Integrate, and integration with Facebook are also present.