How to make a school timetable in Cape Town

making a school timetable in Cape Town

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

A pretty grid that teachers retype into attendance is not a timetable. Cape Town still has to do this against CAPS, NSC, IEB, Western Cape Education Department. January opening; WCED circulars and exam study leave belong on the shared calendar. Named facts: CAPS, NSC, Western Cape Education Department, Rand.

Rand tuition; independent levies vs departmental fee-exemption processes. Named facts: CAPS, NSC, Western Cape Education Department, Rand. 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.
Rand tuition; independent levies vs departmental fee-exemption processes. Named facts: CAPS, NSC, Western Cape Education Department, Rand.

Fix the year first

Working days, board weeks, INSET.

In Cape Town: January opening; WCED circulars and exam study leave belong on the shared calendar. Rand tuition; independent levies vs departmental fee-exemption processes. Named facts: CAPS, NSC, Western Cape Education Department, Rand.

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: CAPS, NSC, Western Cape Education Department, Rand.

Assign people to classes

The solver does not own clashes. A coordinator does.

The solver does not own clashes. A coordinator does.
Schoolyi period assignments sit on the same calendar attendance already uses.
Named facts: CAPS, NSC, Western Cape Education Department, Rand.

Publish one grid

Teachers and students see the same periods.

Teachers and students see the same periods.
Schoolyi period assignments sit on the same calendar attendance already uses.
Named facts: CAPS, NSC, Western Cape Education Department, Rand.

Overlay exams

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

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: CAPS, NSC, Western Cape Education Department, Rand.

Where this usually breaks

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

Cape Town is not exempt. CAPS, NSC, IEB, Western Cape Education Department. Named facts: CAPS, NSC, Western Cape Education Department, Rand.

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: CAPS, NSC, Western Cape Education Department, Rand.

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. January opening; WCED circulars and exam study leave belong on the shared calendar.

Same-morning attendance updates? Test with your holiday list. Do not take a slogan. Named facts: CAPS, NSC, Western Cape Education Department, Rand. 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 in Cape Town

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: CAPS, NSC, Western Cape Education Department, Rand. January opening; WCED circulars and exam study leave belong on the shared calendar.

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. Rand tuition; independent levies vs departmental fee-exemption processes. CAPS, NSC, IEB, Western Cape Education Department

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: CAPS, NSC, Western Cape Education Department, Rand.