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Setting your bell times

Why your bell times change how much planning time each teacher is owed in Victoria and Tasmania, and how to enter them.

What Bell Path needs

  1. 01Set how many teaching sessions run each day.
  2. 02Set the start time of each session.
  3. 03Add your breaks, recording which session each one follows and how long it lasts.
  4. 04If some days differ, turn on "Different schedule on different days" and set those days individually.

Why this affects entitlements

In Victoria and Tasmania, planning time is not a published weekly figure. Both states cap face-to-face teaching hours instead, so a teacher’s entitlement is the teaching time in your week above that cap.

In New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, the ACT and the Northern Territory the entitlement is a fixed weekly figure, so your bell times affect how the release is delivered but not how much of it is owed.

Last updated 20 August 2026

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