Picking classes means answering four questions over and over: who teaches this, how is it graded, does it fit my week, and where on campus is it. None of those answers are on the registration page. All of them are somewhere else, and you go and get them one tab at a time.
Scope now answers them on the page. Hover an instructor's name in Schedule Planner and you get their rating, difficulty, would-take-again, the distribution behind the average, and student comments — both their reviews and the campus threads that mention them, linked back to the source.
Two details we spent most of the work on, because the obvious version of this feature is misleading:
- Reviews from the same course you are hovering float to the top. A 4.9 earned in a twelve-person seminar tells you very little about the same professor's four-hundred-person lecture, and averaging them together tells you less.
- Professors with more than one profile are not merged. Real instructors often have two or three, with different ratings and different counts. Scope ranks them by department and shows the best match — and when it genuinely cannot tell, it shows both rather than inventing a combined number that exists nowhere.
Hovering a meeting time gives you the week it would make and where the building actually is. Everything renders into one card, so there is only ever one thing on screen.
This is UC Berkeley's Schedule Planner to start with, because that is the one we could test against every edge case. Other campuses run the same planner software and are next.