Setting it up
- 01Add the teacher once on the staff step with their full working days.
- 02Assign them to their class on the classes step as normal.
- 03On the subjects step, also assign them as a teacher of their specialist subject, and restrict which classes they teach it to if it is not all of them.
Bell Path splits the person internally into a classroom role and a specialist role so it can schedule both without double-booking them, then presents them as one person again in the timetable and every export.
What to watch
- The specialist sessions they teach are time away from their own class, so their class needs covering in those slots.
- They still have their own planning-time entitlement as a classroom teacher.
- If you set their specialist days to none, the specialist role is dropped entirely and the subject silently loses a teacher. Always set the days.
Last updated 25 July 2026

