Editor’s note: This story has been edited to change the term “online worksheet” to “online application,” after receiving a note of the term’s inaccuracy. Also, Siscast.com only suggests how to arrange a student’s schedule. Class registration would still have to be done through the school’s program: CasperWeb.

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Siscast.com, an online tool that helps collegestudents pick a convenient class schedule, has beenlaunched for Sacramento State students to use.

Unsatisfied with online applications such as CasperWeb,Siscast Founders Sean Regan and Arjan Dehar, both UCDavis graduates, wanted an easier way to deal with thetask of creating a class schedule.

“CasperWeb, from what I saw, looks like it was usefulin the 1980s, 1990s,” Dehar said. “This is the 21stcentury, we should have computers to do all the dirtywork.”

Problems students are facing with CasperWeb includelimited operating hours and the difficulty of findingavailable classes said Kenny Trung, a senior andbusiness major.

“It was pretty hard scheduling classes with so fewclasses and so many people,” Trung said.” Back when Iwas a sophomore and junior, it was super hard gettingclasses.”

The Web site can help college students by generatingmultiple class schedules that best fits the students’schedule.

Students just need to enter the classes they wish totake, and the Web site even allows students to omittimes in the day in which they do not wish to takeclasses.

With Siscast, students can also search for requiredand recommended textbooks for classes, maintain anonline schedule, find other registered users of Siscast who aretaking the same courses and look at teacher ratings.

Possible new features include the use of Siscast toplan out a student’s entire college career years inadvance.

Linh Phan, a junior accounting major, wasinterested in the launch of Siscast at Sac State. “It sounds like it can be very helpful,” Phan said.

Siscast was originally launched in the fall of 2003 atDavis, and has served around 6,000 Davis studentsevery quarter since its implementation, according theSiscast Web site.

“Most of our messages at first were about bugs in theprogram, but after a while we were getting a lot ofpositive feedback from students,” Dehar said.

Regan graduated with a degree in computer science andDehar graduated with a degree in computer engineering,according to a Siscast press release. The pairgraduated in June 2005.

Regan and Dehar are working to expand Siscastthroughout the United States and may possibly licenseout the online tool to universities.

Other colleges that use Siscast include San DiegoState, San Jose State, UC Irvine, UCLA, Ohio State,University of Texas, University of Puget Sound andUniversity of Washington.

Matthew Beltran can be reached at [email protected]