Final Check
Check the timetable before you generate.
Review planning time, staff availability, class allocations, and the agreements that need attention before generation starts.
For Australian primary principals and assistant principals running the operational week
Less time fixing timetables. More time running your school.
Plan part-timers, APT, meetings, cover, yard duty and wet-day for your primary school in one workspace. Set up in 30 minutes. Re-solve in under two.
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Teacher view
Mrs Bennett · 3B · Term 2 · Week 4
Specialist APT
TimeMonTueWedThuFri
8:55
LiteracyBennett
LiteracyBennett
LiteracyBennett
LiteracyBennett
LiteracyBennett
9:55
NumeracyBennett
LOTEChen
NumeracyBennett
PENguyen
NumeracyBennett
10:55
Recess
11:15
InquiryBennett
InquiryBennett
ArtOkafor
APTBennett
InquiryBennett
12:15
WritingBennett
MusicPatel
WritingBennett
LibrarySingh
SITAll staff
1:15
Lunch
2:00
ReadingBennett
ReadingBennett
NumeracyBennett
ReadingBennett
ReadingBennett
- Primary-school setup
- ~30 min
- Generate a timetable
- < 2 min
- Pre-publish clash checks
- 40+
- PDF packs per publish
- 1 each
School approval
Built to be easier for a principal to approve.
Bell Path is intentionally narrow: solve the operational planning problems it owns, keep unnecessary data out, and give primary schools printable review material before live data goes in.
Bell Path · school approval pack
For the principal’s desk
Specialist planning, not a replacement admin system.
Bell Path sits beside Department-provided tools as a timetable, APT, cover, duty, and operational-planning workspace. It is not trying to replace Compass, CASES21, eduPay, email, or learning platforms.
Approval material schools can print.
The school approval pack summarises data categories, subprocessors, ST4S readiness posture, public-link limits, support pathways, and residual risks for local review.
Designed to avoid unnecessary student data.
Core timetabling does not need student names. Where Education Support uses named records, initials mode and privacy prompts help reduce what is visible on screen or printouts.
In her own words
What stood out after the school setup was entered.
This is early feedback about Bell Path’s setup and expected day-to-day use.
Bell Path is going to save me an incredible amount of time. After entering all our timetable requirements, I was impressed by how easy it was to review individual teachers, classes, and programs to ensure fairness and equity across the timetable.
What I'm most excited about is seeing Bell Path work its magic each school morning. Instead of spending time checking daily absences and working out who and what needs to be covered, Bell Path will do it all for me—freeing me up to focus on the things that matter most.
Why schools switch
Built for the leadership team that wants trust, fairness, and the weekend back.
Bell Path is not chasing clever. It is trying to help your school publish something solid, fair, and calm enough that timetable season stops following the leadership team home — and the rest of the year settles down with it.
Less rebuilding, more reviewing.
Capture your school's hidden agreements, staff patterns, and rules up front, so the work shifts from firefighting to refinement.
Fairness you can explain clearly.
Bell Path validates the output so you can walk into staff conversations with something you can explain clearly, not explain away.
One operational home.
Timetable generation, daily cover, yard duty, and wet day planning stay connected, instead of living across PDFs, side notes, and memory.
Your first setup
Set it up once. Bell Path remembers your primary school.
Once your staff, classes, rooms, meetings, and hidden agreements are in, Bell Path carries that structure forward. Later changes are small two-minute tweaks, not a fresh timetable rebuild.
- One setup ~30 min
Teach Bell Path how your primary school works.
Add your classroom teachers, specialist teachers, classes, rooms, meetings, and the hidden agreements that make the week work. Bell Path keeps that structure for every timetable after this.
Staff23 of 23Bennett CT 3B Mon–Fri Chen LOTE Tue · Thu Patel Music Wed · Fri + Add staff - Same day ~1 hour
Generate, review, and publish.
Under two minutes to solve. Then review the teacher, class, and room views with validation and conflict visibility — the hidden clashes surface here, not after publish.
Solve · Term 2 v3Complete · 47s0clashes- Staff
- 23
- Classes
- 18
- Meetings
- 9
Review & publish - Later Two-minute tweaks
Change the detail, not the whole timetable.
Change a staff member, room, meeting, or constraint and regenerate from what Bell Path already knows about your school. No daily rejigging.
Change · staffv3 → v4Patel moved to Thursdays
Affected: 8 sessions · 4 classes
Re-solved · 28sRepublish
Easier first setup
Let the technical person do the data lift.
A principal should not spend the first hour retyping lists that already exist. Bell Path separates bulk preparation from the school judgement only you can make.
Seven-day setup-only linkExcel and CSV importsNo Compass password and no wider workspace access
A clean handoff, then control returns to you
- 1
You send one secure link
After signup, invite the person who already knows how to export school lists.
- 2
They prepare the bulk data
They paste classes and staff from Compass, Sentral, Xuno, CASES21, or another export into a guided workbook.
- 3
You make the school decisions
Bell Path emails you to return. Required working days stay blocked, while class ownership, specialist rules, and other decisions stay flagged for review.
Start your school setupHandoff appears after signup
Bell Path platform
One operational workspace, built around the timetable.
The same staff, classes, rooms, and school agreements flow into daily cover, yard duty, events, wet days, education support, and staff review.
Current founding-school price
Founding schools join for $1,000 for the year.
Schools 6 to 20 join for one paid product-shaping year. There is no hidden setup fee, and payment happens after the school workspace is set up.
Founding schools 6-20 · paid product-shaping year
Prices in AUD. No GST is currently added.
AnnualBest value
$1,000/ year
One invoice for the paid product-shaping year
Termly
$300/ term
Four invoices across the paid year
Pilot schools 1-5 receive their first 12 months complimentary, then two paid annual years at $1,000 before standard pricing. After the founder cohort, standard pricing scales with verified school size, from $679 to $12,599 per year.
Explore by task
Find the part of the school week you need to fix.
Start with the part of the week creating the most pressure. Each page shows the workflow, school safeguards, and practical outputs before you decide whether Bell Path fits.
Plan the week
Run the week
Share with staff
Find a fit
- School Timetabling SoftwareStart with the broad timetable problem principals search for.
- Buyer GuideCompare options, tradeoffs, and when Bell Path is the right fit.
- Principal OperationsSee how timetabling connects cover, duty, events, and staff visibility.
- Timetabling Software AustraliaAustralian-built timetabling for primary schools, state terms included.
Leadership controls
The decisions that need human judgement stay visible.
Bell Path helps the leadership team review the difficult parts before they become staffroom questions.
Privacy-aware
Plan education support
Funded minutes per student and ES staff blocks sit in their own privacy-controlled workspace beside the operational week.
Yard duty
Count lunchtime clubs
Lunchtime clubs and other duty-equivalent activities are credited in the same year-to-date fairness view.
Staff portal
Bring staff into the review
Linked staff see published views and supported requests and preferences, while timetable editing stays with planners.
Set the school up in a guided sequence.
Guided setup keeps school details, time blocks, staff, classes, subjects, and constraints in sequence. The Staff Portal gives linked teachers published views and supported self-service actions.
Planning stories
Recognisable school pressures, clearly labelled.
These are de-identified planning scenarios built from Bell Path workflow patterns. They are not independently verified school outcomes or testimonials.
- Three job-share pairs, one dual-role specialist, and a timetable the team could finally publish with confidence.Illustrative scenario: A Victorian primary school moved from spreadsheet coordination and hidden staffing risk to one shared version the team could review and publish with far more confidence.
- The planner did not need another hero effort. She needed a timetable process she could defend before term started.Illustrative scenario: An assistant principal moved from repeated evening rebuilds and Sunday-night second-guessing to a calmer timetable process she could defend before term started.
- The real win was not just the timetable. It was keeping daily cover, yard duty, and wet day response in the same workspace.Illustrative scenario: A primary school kept timetable generation, daily cover, yard duty, and wet day response in one workspace so the morning scramble became less fragmented and easier to run.
Ready when you are
Publish a timetable you can trust.
Bell Path helps assistant principals and principals move from spreadsheet stress to a calmer, fairer, more explainable planning workflow.