Daily operations
How does timetable auto-generation work?
The timetable engine generates a clash-free schedule from your real constraints — teachers are never double-booked. You can hand-edit any cell in the grid editor afterwards, and print section-wise timetables. Teachers see their own live schedule on their dashboard.
Before you start
- Fix the school’s shape first: periods per day, working days, and break positions — the generator works within whatever you define.
- Complete the subject-teacher assignment for every class-section; the engine can only schedule teachers you have assigned.
- Decide the constraints that matter to you (which subjects need double periods, who is part-time) before generating, not after.
Steps
- 1
Principal portal → Timetable → set periods per day and working days.
- 2
Assign subjects and teachers to each class-section.
- 3
Click Auto-Generate — review the proposed clash-free grid.
- 4
Fine-tune any cell manually, then publish and print.
Good to know
- Clash-free means exactly that: the generator will not double-book a teacher across sections.
- The generated grid is a starting point, not a verdict — any cell can be hand-edited in the grid editor before publishing.
- Section-wise timetables print from a dedicated print view, and every teacher sees their own live schedule on their dashboard — so a published change reaches everyone without re-printing the staffroom wall.
- Students see today’s schedule from the same live timetable, so class and teacher views can never drift apart.
- On the Professional plan and above, the AI can analyse teacher workload distribution and flag coverage gaps across the published timetable.
Common questions
What if the auto-generated timetable gets something wrong?
Edit it. The grid editor lets you change any cell by hand after generation and before publishing — schools typically auto-generate for the bulk of the grid and hand-place the handful of periods where they have unwritten constraints.
Do teachers need to be told when the timetable changes?
Their dashboard schedule comes from the live published timetable, so a change is visible the next time they look. For a mid-term change worth announcing, pair it with an announcement so nobody relies on memory.
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