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Tips, guides, and best practices for school timetable management.
Choosing Timetable Software for Your School: A Checklist
What to look for in timetable software for an Indian school, from proxies and electives to exports and price, and the questions to ask before you sign up.
School Timetable in Excel or Software? When to Switch
Excel works for a small school's timetable. Here's where it breaks, how to tell you've outgrown it, and how to move your data over without retyping it.
How to Make a School Timetable: A Step-by-Step Guide
The order that works when you build a school timetable, from bell times to the final check, whether you do it by hand, in Excel or with a generator.
Managing Proxy Periods When Teachers Are Absent
A calmer way to arrange proxy periods each morning: who should cover, how to keep it fair, and how to stop the same few teachers covering every time.
Planning Periods per Week for Each Subject
How to set the number of periods each subject gets, make the totals fit your week, and avoid the allocation mistakes that stop a timetable from fitting.
Polish Before You Publish: Swapping Periods on the Preview
Generation got you to 99% of the way. Now swap individual periods on the preview to close the last 1% — without regenerating.
See Problems Before You Generate: The Readiness Tab
A pre-flight check that tells you which grades are ready, which aren't, and exactly what to fix — before you hit generate.
Setting Up Your School for First-Time Success
A simple guide to getting the best results from TimeIt360 — right from the start.
Subject Groups Done Right
Subject groups are one of the most powerful features in TimeIt360 — but they need to be set up carefully. Here's how to get them right.
Team Teaching: The Secret to Better Timetables
One simple change that can take your timetable from 'almost there' to 'perfect' — every single time.
The Teacher Overload Problem: Tips for Better Timetables
The number one reason timetables don't come out right — and what you can do about it.
Why Your Timetable Generation Fails (And How to Fix It)
Generation didn't complete? Here's what's actually going on — and how to fix it in minutes.