"Working with Anthony Abbott, his colleagues and the Course Planner the past two years has been the best professional development I have experienced in twenty five years of teaching. Empowering students to make appropriate course selections, particularly around levels is crucial in secondary education. Students can not take courses they don't have the prerequisites for, team leaders are encouraged to set thresholds for English, Math and Science, including specific messages. This deliberate framework forces students to make better choices.

"The interface between our SMS and the Course Planner is seamless, our IT department enjoys working with Anthony and this web based software. When challenges arise, they are often resolved the same day as it is web based. This program empowers students, parents, teachers and administrators and promotes efficiency. I have never seen this much discussion around course selection and pathway planning before."

Bruce Downey, Student Success Leader, Near North DSB

"The Course Planner offers students and parents the ability to research and select courses effectively. Parents and students can now easily retrieve on-line information about student credit accumulation, mark history and course selections at anytime. The benefit for Administrators is that this powerful program instantly collects, tracks, and identifies course selections making valuable data instantly available to assist with staff planning and for purposes of scheduling.

"As a Guidance Counselor, I highly recommend and endorse this user-friendly product. The Course Planner offers flexibility and has the capability to meet the unique needs of any specialized program, student, or school. The program’s support team continues to develop and refine the Course Planner and as result, a remarkable planning tool is now available for our students."

Doug Plumb, Department Head of Guidance, W.F. Herman Secondary School

"As a Guidance Counsellor for the past 15 years I have seen a lot of changes to the ways in which we do our job but the electronic on-line course planner is by far one of the most innovative and revolutionary tools we’ve been given to date. Moving from a paper and pencil course selection process which required the countless checking and rechecking of option sheets by guidance personnel and Department heads and manual inputting of the courses into the computer to an internet based program that allows students to input their own course selections while not allowing (if set up properly) students to choose courses that they should not take or do not have the prerequisites for is nothing short of genius. I really can’t say enough good about the capability of this software. Students (and parents) can now be educated through the program to make wiser more appropriate course selections... The potential for messaging to students and parents over and above the basic course descriptions in a course calendar is limitless."

Bob Carlin, Guidance Counsellor, Resurrection Catholic Secondary School

"The Course Planner is a great product! It is an effective way to save time and energy, especially in the transfer of information to our Trillium database. The on-screen platform is very easy to understand. Students will find it to be a very fun way to pick courses. Having access to their course history will help students choose what is best for them.

"The Career Cruising support team is very quick to respond to questions and suggestions. I have personally enjoyed their advice and suggestions. I recommend this product to all schools who want to get ahead in the new technological world."

Martin Breault, Guidance Department, Ecole Secondaire Sainte-Marie

"It has been a pleasure working with the staff from Career Cruising with our on line course selections. The support they provide is prompt, helpful and effective whenever issues arise."

Sean Kritz, Guidance Department, St. Benedict C.S.S.

"Career Cruising is a real time saver after the initial set up. I can focus my time on counselling those students who really need one on one and not the 75% who can go on line with a single page of instructions and complete their option selections by themselves."

Noella Smyth, Guidance Department, Vincent Massey Secondary School

"One of the benefits of the course planner is the pre-validation of courses. Because Career Cruising has the students credit history in real-time, the student cannot select courses to which the student does not have the proper pre-requisites. The pre-requisite being either an earlier course or a mark threshold attached to the course that the student must have achieved in the pre-requisite course. A student not having the proper pre-requisites cannot select the course unless it’s over ridden by guidance or a Career Cruising Administrator within your board.

"Transferring Course Planner information back into Trillium is quite simple. The file received from Career Cruising is imported via the Career Cruising module in Interfaces and takes a matter of minutes. This saves an enormous amount of time as opposed to the scanning in of course selection sheets.

"Exporting the data via the Trillium Interfaces is also quick and easy. It allows you some choices that let you select an individual school or multiple schools, All Elementary Schools or All Secondary Schools. For a board our size it takes about 15 minutes to export all the required data."

Tim Watkins, Database Administrator, Near North DSB