Tasmanian primary schools
Timetable software that works out DOTT from your instructional load.
Tasmania caps how much a primary teacher teaches rather than publishing a weekly release figure, so DOTT (duties other than teaching) depends on the hours your school runs. Bell Path does that calculation from your real session times, shows its working, and says DOTT and relief teacher on every screen.
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- Planning time
DOTT
Duties other than teaching
- Full-time entitlement
Worked out from your bell times
- Duty
Yard duty
The Victorian word, for now
- Relief teacher
Relief teacher
- Support staff
TA
Teacher assistant
- First year of school
Prep
You want DOTT worked out from your real instructional load.
In many Tasmanian schools, DOTT is worked out from instructional hours by hand, so every staffing change starts the calculation again.
In Tasmania, primary DOTT is not a weekly figure you can look up. The teaching award caps a full-time primary teacher’s instructional load at 42 hours a fortnight, and DOTT is whatever is left once that cap is respected against the hours your school runs.
Bell Path does the calculation from your real school setup: your session times, your breaks and your day structure. It treats the result as a minimum for every teacher, works it out for part-time staff from the days they teach, and shows you the working rather than asking you to trust a number. Set your school up as a Tasmanian school and it says DOTT, relief teacher and teacher assistant on every screen, printed timetable and staff email.
After the timetable is published, the same tool runs the week. It plans daily cover, builds duty rosters with a fairness record, keeps wet weather plans and event timetables, and gives every teacher a staff portal showing their own week.
What goes wrong without it.
DOTT is worked out rather than published, so nobody is quite certain what each teacher is owed.
The calculation depends on your session times, so a bell-time change quietly moves everybody’s entitlement.
Part-time entitlement gets estimated rather than worked out from real teaching minutes.
The wet weather plan is a separate document that nobody can find at 11am.
What Bell Path does.
What it handles
- DOTT worked out from your real session times, breaks and day structure, with the working shown
- Part-time DOTT worked out from actual teaching minutes rather than a rounded day count
- Duty rosters that share the load fairly across the term
- Day sheets for relief teachers, with the classes, rooms, duties and handover notes
- Part-time teachers, job-shares, composite classes and specialist rotations
- A timetable for your TAs: who each one supports, and when
- Daily cover, wet weather plans, event timetables and an operations calendar
- A staff portal where each teacher sees their own week
Why schools choose Bell Path
- The calculation is done for you from your real setup, not estimated
- Change your bell times and the entitlement is recalculated, so the timetable cannot silently fall short
- The final check names who is short and why before staff see the timetable
- The timetable, duty and daily cover live in one place
Planning stories.
Composite examples of common planning situations, not reports from one school.
Three job-share pairs and one specialist who also taught a class.
The assistant principal was holding the job-share and specialist arrangements in spreadsheets and her own memory. She entered them into Bell Path once, then reviewed one timetable instead of four drafts.
A timetable the assistant principal could defend before term started.
Every time one detail changed, the whole draft needed another night of checking. She entered the real rules into Bell Path once, then reviewed the result instead of rebuilding it.
FAQ
Questions schools ask before they start.
How is DOTT calculated for Tasmanian primary teachers?
Tasmania caps a full-time primary teacher’s instructional load at 42 hours a fortnight rather than publishing a weekly release figure, so the entitlement depends on how much your school teaches. Bell Path does that calculation from your session times, breaks and day structure, and shows the result for each teacher. You can model it yourself on the planning time calculator under Tools.
Does Bell Path use Tasmanian terminology?
Yes. For Tasmanian schools, Bell Path says DOTT (duties other than teaching), relief teacher and teacher assistant everywhere: the setup steps, the timetable views, the printed PDFs and the staff emails.
What happens if we change our bell times?
The entitlement is recalculated, because in Tasmania it depends on your teaching minutes.
Is Bell Path built for primary schools?
Yes, and only primary schools. It handles planning time, part-time patterns, job-shares, specialist lessons and composite classes. It does not build secondary school timetables.
We are a Catholic or independent school. Do these figures apply to us?
The figures on this page are for government schools. Catholic and independent schools work to their own agreements, so enter your agreement’s figure during setup and Bell Path checks every teacher against it the same way.
How Bell Path compares with other options.
Bell Path vs TimetableMaster
Both products build school timetables. Bell Path is built only for Australian primary schools. TimetableMaster describes itself as an AI-powered scheduling platform for schools, colleges and universities, priced in US dollars.
Bell Path vs Tes Timetable, powered by Edval
Edval is a long-established Australian timetabling suite that now sits under the Tes brand as Tes Timetable, powered by Edval. This page is for a primary school weighing it against Bell Path.
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