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School timetable software: the grid, clash detection and cover in one place

The week’s timetable, read by class, by teacher and by room, on the same periods as the attendance register. You place lessons by hand — through the form or by drag and drop — and the platform refuses a class, a teacher or a room in two places at once, telling you what already holds the slot. A teacher is away? Their lessons for the day appear: covered, turned into supervised study, or cancelled. The timetable is published to families and teachers when the leadership team decides.

  • One grid, read three ways — by class, by teacher, by room (who is in room B12 on Tuesday at 10:00)
  • Monday-morning cover — covered, supervised study or cancelled, the teachers available at that hour suggested first, the day sheet in PDF
  • A published version — the leadership team publishes; families and teachers read the timetable online, while the draft stays out of sight

The grid is built by hand, lesson by lesson: Scoliom does not generate it. What helps is clash detection — and, to take over a grid already built elsewhere, an import from .ics files or an Excel list, with a preview before anything is written. The timetable is included in every plan, from Scoliom Logiciel.

The module on video

The timetable in one minute twenty

The grid read by class, by teacher and by room, the import, drag and drop, a clash refused, publication — then an absent teacher: lessons covered, turned into supervised study or cancelled, and families notified when you decide. A demonstration on sample data, with subtitles.

The grid

One weekly timetable, read by class, by teacher and by room

By class, by teacher, by room

The same grid, read three ways: the timetable of class 4B, that of one teacher, or the occupancy of a room — who is in room B12 on Tuesday at 10:00. Three readings of one week, not three timetables to keep in step. A grid colour-coded by subject, readable at a glance — the same colour in the leadership team’s grid and in the teacher’s.

The periods of the register, and your rooms

The timetable sits on the same periods as the attendance register: they are defined once, for both. Each room has its code, its type — laboratory, computer room, sports… — and its capacity.

Half-groups and alternating weeks

A class split in two at the same hour, marked with a label such as “G1”, and lessons held in week A or week B are entered in the grid and marked in the cell, on screen as on paper. The software does not know which weeks of the calendar are A or B weeks: the school keeps track of that.

Building the grid

Clash detection, and a grid built by hand — only faster

Clashes refused, and explained

Before a lesson is saved, not after.

Before a lesson is saved, the platform refuses a class, a teacher or a room in two places at once, and says what is in the way: “4B already has Mathematics in this period”. Two half-groups of the same class can have lessons at the same time; a lesson held every week is detected as clashing with a week A or a week B lesson.

Drag to move, Ctrl or Alt to copy

The lesson shows at once in its new place.

Drag a lesson to another cell to move it; hold Ctrl or Alt as you drop it to copy it. The lesson appears straight away in its new place, and an Undo button takes you back. The same clash checks apply: if the cell is taken, the lesson returns to where it was and the screen says what is in the way.

Several periods in one go

All or nothing.

Drag across empty cells to select them and place the same lesson on several periods at once. All or nothing: if one cell is a problem, nothing is saved and the screen says which one. On a tablet, a lesson is moved with a finger by its handle; empty cells are selected with the mouse, and the form remains available from the keyboard.

Building by hand, made quicker

Better said before the demonstration than after.

Scoliom does not compose the grid for you: it is not automatic generation. Drag and drop moves what you have placed; it composes nothing. What you get is building by hand, made quicker, with clash detection checking every lesson before it is saved.

Cover for absent teachers

The Monday-morning task: a teacher is away, the day is rearranged

Cover is a dated exception: the base timetable does not move, and the history stays readable even if the lesson is later removed from the grid.

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The day and the teacher

Choose the date and the teacher who is away: the screen lists their lessons for that day.

2

Covered, study or cancelled

For each lesson: covered by a colleague — the teachers available at that hour are suggested first —, turned into supervised study, or cancelled. A colleague already busy, or a room already taken, is refused — including when a cancelled lesson is restored to a room taken in the meantime.

3

The day sheet

Every cover arrangement, supervised study and cancellation for a date, on one sheet printed as a PDF for the staffroom.

4

Notify, when you decide

Once the day is set, the Notify button tells the families concerned through the parent app, and the colleague who covers through the bell of their teacher space.

Telling people

Notify: families and the cover teacher, only when you decide

A decision, day by day

Nothing goes out without that action.

The Notify button is used on the decision of the leadership team or the front office, one day at a time. It is never automatic: no e-mail, no SMS — a notification in the parent app for the families concerned, and a notice in the bell of the teacher space for the colleague who covers.

Who will be notified, shown first

Then a “Notified” column.

Before anything is sent, the screen shows who will be notified. A “Notified” column then shows what has been, and a lesson can be marked as told in person — for the colleague you caught in the corridor.

What families read — and what nobody is asked

Discretion, by design.

Families read what changes: lesson cancelled, turned into supervised study, room changed — never a teacher’s name. No reason for an absence is asked for or kept: knowing who covers does not require knowing why a colleague is away.

Export, import

On paper, in Excel — and from a file you already have

PDF, ready to put up

A4 landscape, under your school’s letterhead: one class, one teacher, one room — or every grid that has lessons, in one go, one page each. The export covers the base timetable; cover has its own day sheet.

Excel, ready to sort

The grid on screen, or all of them at once — one tab per class, per teacher or per room — plus a “Lesson list” tab: one line per lesson (class, day, period, time, subject, teacher, room, group, week, comment), ready to sort and filter.

Import your timetable from an .ics file or an Excel list

To take over a grid already built elsewhere: .ics calendar files, the format calendars use to exchange events, or an Excel list (.xlsx), one line per lesson — a template is downloadable from the import screen, with the school’s classes, subjects, rooms and periods. A Scoliom Excel export (the “Lesson list” tab) imports again as it is.

Nothing is guessed

Doubtful cases are put to you, never guessed.

Each class, subject, teacher or room in the file is matched with the school’s records. Anything doubtful — two teachers with the same name, an unknown class, a time that falls on no period — becomes a question, with the reason and the remedy.

A preview before writing, into the draft

Families and teachers see nothing until the leadership team publishes.

A preview shows, class by class, what will be created, changed or left aside, before anything is written. Two modes: complete the grid (nothing is removed), or replace the classes in the file — a mode reserved to the leadership team.

Answers remembered

The same questions do not come back.

On the next import of the same file, the answers already given are reused — unless something has changed in the school (a namesake has arrived, a record has left), in which case the question is asked again. Each match kept can be forgotten.

Draft and published version

A draft for you, a published version for families and teachers

Published deliberately

The Publish button belongs to the leadership team.

The grid you build is a draft. Families and teachers only see a published version, put online by a deliberate act of the leadership team: you can rework the grid on trial without anyone seeing it.

What is live, and what differs

A bar below the grid.

Below the grid, a bar says what is online — version number and date — and how many lessons differ from the draft: added, removed, changed.

Versions and history

Who published, when, who withdrew.

Each publication creates a new version; earlier ones stay in a history. The leadership team can also withdraw the live version. Cover applies to the live version — the one teachers and families actually follow.

For teachers and families

Each one reads their own timetable

“My timetable”, in the teacher space

Each teacher reads their own timetable, in the published version. Over the next fourteen days: the lessons they are to cover (class, subject, period) and their own lessons that change — covered, supervised study, cancelled. The colleague who covers never receives the name of the one who is away.

The register, opened on the right class

Opening the register, the teacher sees their lessons of the day and those they take as cover or supervised study; a click opens the register of the right class in the right period, the current one already selected. The colleague who covers takes the register of the class in front of them — that day, in that period, and that class only — without being attached to it for the year. The teacher still ticks the absentees: what is pre-filled is the choice of class and period.

“Tomorrow”, in the parent app

On the home screen of the parent app, a “Tomorrow” card shows the child’s lessons the next day, with a view of the next seven days, child by child. Parents see what changes for their child — lesson cancelled, turned into supervised study, room changed — never a teacher’s name, never who covers whom. Holidays and public holidays the school has made visible to families in its calendar appear as days without lessons. The last week loaded stays readable offline, in French, Arabic and English.

Who uses it

One timetable, three kinds of reader

The timetable sits in the School life area of the platform, next to attendance, the calendar and transport: on the home screen it is one more shortcut in the School life card, for the leadership team and the front office.

Leadership team and front office

They build, cover and notify.

The leadership team and the front office build the grid, set the cover and decide when to notify; the leadership team publishes. The back office is available in French and in English.

Teachers

They read, and take the register.

Teachers read their timetable in their own space and take the register of their lessons from it — including the lessons they cover.

Families

They read their children’s timetable.

Families read their children’s timetable in the family space, in French, Arabic or English, like the rest of that space.

Alongside, in School life

The school calendar: holidays, exams and meetings, published to families

Next to the timetable, the calendar holds the dates of the year. An event carries a title — which can also be entered in Arabic — a description and one of six types: holidays, exam, meeting, school trip, public holiday or other. It runs all day or from a start time to an end time, and is addressed to the whole school, to one year group or to a single class. Only the leadership team writes to it and publishes it to families; publication records who published it and when, and withdrawing an event removes it from the family space at once. The calendar sends nothing of its own accord.

The school calendar in Scoliom: seven events grouped by month — meeting, school trip, examination, public holiday, holidays — each with its title, its audience (whole school, one year group, a single class) and whether it is published or not (sample data)
The school calendar — not the timetable. A real screenshot, on sample data: the product itself states, at the top of the screen, that an event only appears in the family space once it has been published — a deliberate act, never automatic.
How to activate it

The timetable, included in every plan

The timetable is not one more piece of software to buy: it is part of Scoliom Scolarité, in the School life area, next to attendance, the calendar and transport. It is included in every plan, from Scoliom Logiciel. Its set-up — your periods, your rooms, your classes — is included in every plan too: the timetable is a basic function of running a school, not an option. The exact scope is confirmed in writing after the remote assessment.

What each plan covers: Scoliom Logiciel — the complete Scoliom Scolarité platform, run by your own teams — includes the timetable — grid, cover, publication to families and teachers — set-up included. Scoliom Essentiel, Sérénité and Direction Numérique include everything in Scoliom Logiciel and add our services. The school calendar, publication to families included, is part of every plan too, from Scoliom Logiciel. Scope, data migration, training and support are confirmed in writing after the remote assessment.

New

New: the homework diary, for teachers and for families

In their own timetable view, teachers see their dated lessons, from last week to the next 14 days, and write the homework set under each one, with a due date if they wish — only under the lessons they actually teach, cover lessons included. Families read it child by child in the parent space (a homework screen and a card on the home page), from last week to the next four weeks, in French, English or Arabic.

Teachers can also note what was covered in class and attach one file per lesson (PDF, JPG or PNG); a “New” badge shows families what has changed since their last visit. The teacher's name is never shown to families, and nothing is sent to them: they check the screen. All it takes is for the school's timetable to be published in Scoliom. Included in every plan.

Frequently asked questions

Your questions about the school timetable

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