How to make a school timetable

A pretty grid that teachers retype into attendance is not a timetable.

A pretty grid that teachers retype into attendance is not a timetable. Do this against the calendar you will go live on, not a generic weekday grid.

named fee heads families can see on a receipt Named facts: working days, one student record, publish gates. Named owners still have to keep the holiday master, the roster, and the family view aligned in this place, because a brochure paragraph will not survive the first mid-year joiner or the first board week.

Building in Excel, publishing in PDF, marking in a third tool.
Northern-hemisphere defaults on an April campus.
named fee heads families can see on a receipt Named facts: working days, one student record, publish gates.

Fix the year first

Working days, board weeks, INSET.

If you skip this step, the first parent receipt or the first exam week will rewrite the process in a corridor.

A pretty grid that teachers retype into attendance is not a timetable. Named owners still have to keep the holiday master, the roster, and the family view aligned in this place, because a brochure paragraph will not survive the first mid-year joiner or the first board week.

Working days, board weeks, INSET.
Schoolyi period assignments sit on the same calendar attendance already uses.
Named facts: working days, one student record, publish gates.

Assign people to classes

The solver does not own clashes. A coordinator does.

If you skip this step, the first parent receipt or the first exam week will rewrite the process in a corridor.

The solver does not own clashes. A coordinator does.
Schoolyi period assignments sit on the same calendar attendance already uses.
Named facts: working days, one student record, publish gates.

Publish one grid

Teachers and students see the same periods.

If you skip this step, the first parent receipt or the first exam week will rewrite the process in a corridor.

Teachers and students see the same periods.
Schoolyi period assignments sit on the same calendar attendance already uses.
Named facts: working days, one student record, publish gates.

Overlay exams

Do not hide younger classes unless policy says the whole campus is off.

If you skip this step, the first parent receipt or the first exam week will rewrite the process in a corridor.

Do not hide younger classes unless policy says the whole campus is off.
Schoolyi period assignments sit on the same calendar attendance already uses.
Named facts: working days, one student record, publish gates.

Where this usually breaks

Building in Excel, publishing in PDF, marking in a third tool. Northern-hemisphere defaults on an April campus.

A second spreadsheet for the “real” list is the usual failure.

Schoolyi period assignments sit on the same calendar attendance already uses. Named owners still have to keep the holiday master, the roster, and the family view aligned in this place, because a brochure paragraph will not survive the first mid-year joiner or the first board week.

Building in Excel, publishing in PDF, marking in a third tool.
Northern-hemisphere defaults on an April campus.
Schoolyi period assignments sit on the same calendar attendance already uses.

How Schoolyi fits

Schoolyi period assignments sit on the same calendar attendance already uses.

Open /features/teaching after you can describe the awkward case. This page is a playbook, not a feature grid. Named facts: working days, one student record, publish gates.

No. Named owners still have to keep the holiday master, the roster, and the family view aligned in this place, because a brochure paragraph will not survive the first mid-year joiner or the first board week.

Playbook: /how-to/make-a-school-timetable
Product: /features/teaching
Book a demo with your awkward case, not a slide deck

Questions

Will a solver replace the coordinator? No.

Primary and secondary together? Yes, same year, different shapes.

Same-morning attendance updates? Test with your holiday list. Do not take a slogan. Named facts: working days, one student record, publish gates. Named owners still have to keep the holiday master, the roster, and the family view aligned in this place, because a brochure paragraph will not survive the first mid-year joiner or the first board week.

Will a solver replace the coordinator? No.
Primary and secondary together? Yes, same year, different shapes.
Same-morning attendance updates? Test with your holiday list. Do not take a slogan.

Bring this playbook to a demo

Write the awkward case before you watch slides: a mid-year joiner, a concession after invoicing, or a working-day exception. Schoolyi period assignments sit on the same calendar attendance already uses. Named facts: working days, one student record, publish gates. the academic calendar the school actually uses

Schoolyi is the operations system for that walkthrough — one student record, one academic calendar, publish gates on results, receipts that match finance. Score statutory filing and hardware as not met unless the deployment actually has them. named fee heads families can see on a receipt the boards the campus reports to

A pretty grid that teachers retype into attendance is not a timetable. Working days, board weeks, INSET. Named owners still have to keep the holiday master, the roster, and the family view aligned in this place, because a brochure paragraph will not survive the first mid-year joiner or the first board week.

Open /features/teaching
Book a demo with the awkward case
Named facts: working days, one student record, publish gates.

How to make a school timetable