Does Bell Path replace Compass or Sentral?

No. Bell Path handles the planning: timetable, cover, duty, events and staff views. Compass, Sentral and similar platforms handle attendance, reporting and parent communication. They solve different problems and work alongside each other.

Does Bell Path replace CASES21 or eduPay?

No. CASES21 handles administration and enrolment, and eduPay handles finance. Bell Path handles the planning work those systems do not cover.

What does the staff portal show teachers?

Each linked teacher sees their own published weekly schedule, including teaching sessions, cover assignments, yard duty, and meetings. They can make supported requests, submit time-in-lieu claims, request duty swaps, and manage notification preferences. Timetable editing stays with the planner, and staff do not see other teachers' full schedules or sensitive planning data.

Is Bell Path suitable for a school that already has a timetable tool?

If your current tool only generates the timetable, Bell Path can still be useful for daily cover, yard duty, event timetables and the operations calendar. You get the most from it when the timetable and the day-to-day running of the week are in the same place.

How quickly can a school get started?

Setup is a series of guided steps for classes, staff, rooms, meetings and rules, so a school leader can build a first draft without any experience of scheduling software. Most primary schools take about 30 minutes.

Software for principals

One place to run the school week: timetable, cover, yard duty, events and staff views.

Bell Path is planning software for Australian primary school leaders. It does not replace Compass, CASES21, eduPay or Department systems. It handles the planning work those tools do not cover.

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What you are looking for

You are running the school week across four tools and want one.

The timetable is in one place, cover in another, duty on paper, and events in a calendar nobody else can see. Every handover between them depends on a person remembering to do it.

Principals and assistant principals already use many tools: Compass or Sentral for attendance and reporting, CASES21 for administration, eduPay for finance, and email for everything else. None of them builds the weekly timetable, covers absent staff, rosters yard duty, or keeps event days visible to the whole team.

Bell Path does that part. It is one place where school leaders build and run the week: the timetable, daily cover, yard duty, wet day plans, event timetables, an operations calendar, education support planning, and a staff portal where each teacher sees their own schedule.

It does not replace your school information system, attendance or reporting. It replaces the spreadsheets, whiteboards, email threads and memory that currently hold the planning together.

The problems

What goes wrong without it.

School leaders describe these problems to us before they start with Bell Path. It is built to stop each one.

The weekly timetable, cover arrangements, duty roster, and event plans live in separate spreadsheets maintained by different people.
When a teacher is absent, the daily organiser rebuilds coverage from scratch using memory and side notes.
Yard duty rosters and wet day plans are static documents that do not reflect the current week.
Event timetables for swimming, sports day, or photo day are one-off spreadsheets built from scratch each time.
Staff ask "where do I need to be?" and no single system can answer quickly.

What it does

From school setup to a timetable you can explain with confidence.

What it handles

Timetable generation with part-time teachers, job-shares, planning time, meetings, rooms and specialist rotations
An operations calendar for camps, excursions, sport days, deadlines and same-morning changes
Daily cover that tracks who has covered what, so the load is shared fairly across the term
Yard duty rosters with a whole-year fairness record, including lunchtime clubs
Wet day plans that switch the outdoor roster to indoor supervision on the same screen
Event timetables for photo day, swimming, sports rotations and health checks, printable and shareable
Education support planning with support minutes per student
Staff portal with published personal views, supported requests, time-in-lieu claims, duty swaps, and notification preferences; timetable editing stays with the planner

Why schools choose Bell Path

One place for the planning work instead of a patchwork of spreadsheets and whiteboards
Designed for principals and assistant principals, not IT administrators or timetabling consultants
Works alongside Compass, CASES21 and Department systems rather than replacing them
Teachers check their schedule, cover and duty in one place, the staff portal
Built for Australian primary schools, with privacy documentation ready for your procurement review

Stories from schools like yours.

Each story is built from the patterns schools describe to us. Names and identifying details are left out.

Daily cover, yard duty and wet days kept in the one place.
Once the timetable was shared with staff, the school still jumped between tools every absence morning. Keeping cover, yard duty and wet day plans in Bell Path meant the week’s picture was already there.

FAQ

Questions schools ask before they start.

Does Bell Path replace Compass or Sentral?
No. Bell Path handles the planning: timetable, cover, duty, events and staff views. Compass, Sentral and similar platforms handle attendance, reporting and parent communication. They solve different problems and work alongside each other.
Does Bell Path replace CASES21 or eduPay?
No. CASES21 handles administration and enrolment, and eduPay handles finance. Bell Path handles the planning work those systems do not cover.
What does the staff portal show teachers?
Each linked teacher sees their own published weekly schedule, including teaching sessions, cover assignments, yard duty, and meetings. They can make supported requests, submit time-in-lieu claims, request duty swaps, and manage notification preferences. Timetable editing stays with the planner, and staff do not see other teachers' full schedules or sensitive planning data.
Is Bell Path suitable for a school that already has a timetable tool?
If your current tool only generates the timetable, Bell Path can still be useful for daily cover, yard duty, event timetables and the operations calendar. You get the most from it when the timetable and the day-to-day running of the week are in the same place.
How quickly can a school get started?
Setup is a series of guided steps for classes, staff, rooms, meetings and rules, so a school leader can build a first draft without any experience of scheduling software. Most primary schools take about 30 minutes.

Ready when you are

Publish a timetable you can trust.

Bell Path builds the timetable from the details you give it, checks it before staff see it, and keeps working through the term for cover and duty rosters.

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