Custom teaching time and lesson cancellation app development
Appfront builds apps that help secondary schools track lesson cancellations and teaching time. A teacher or head of department reports a cancellation or cover the moment it happens, activities outside the timetable such as excursions and projects are recorded with their purpose, and for each year group and school type you can see how much teaching time was planned and delivered. That way the justification is ready when the school leadership, the staff council or the inspectorate asks for it.
What is an app for teaching time and lesson cancellations?
Secondary schools must provide pupils with sufficient teaching time. The law sets standards for this per school type, and the inspectorate supervises compliance. What counts as teaching time is not just the lesson on the timetable: an excursion, a project or a work placement can also count, as long as the school sets it up with a purpose and a programme. Lesson cancellations, on the other hand, subtract from it. The staff council has a right of consent over the policy on lesson cancellations.
In many schools the timetable lives in the scheduling software, and cancellations are tracked day by day on a whiteboard or in an email to the timetablers. A cover arranged at the last minute is recorded nowhere. A project week counts, but the justification sits in a folder with the head of department. And when the school leadership wants to know where a year group stands on teaching time, someone has to spend days calculating it.
We build custom solutions because every school is different: which scheduling software and pupil administration system you use, how cancellations and cover currently work, which activities count, and how your school leadership accounts for them. What counts as teaching time and which standards apply to your school is for you to decide within the rules and together with your board; the app records what you need for that.
Cancellations as they happen
Cancellations and cover reported by teacher or head of department, per lesson and with a reason, without email or a whiteboard.
Activities with justification
Excursions, projects and work placements recorded with their purpose, programme and duration, so they count with proper justification.
Delivery per year group
Planned and delivered teaching time per year group and school type, visible at any moment.
How we build your app for teaching time and lesson cancellations
We start with your school: which scheduling software you use, how cancellations and cover work now, which activities count, and how accountability is handled.
Your scheduling software, pupil administration, cancellation policy and activities outside the timetable.
Cancellations and cover per lesson, and activities with purpose and duration.
Planned and delivered teaching time per year group and school type.
Overviews for school leadership and the staff council, justification, and ongoing maintenance afterwards.
What an app for teaching time and lesson cancellations actually does
The components below feature in almost every secondary school. Which ones you need depends on your organisation.
Rota
Lessons from the scheduling software in the app.
Losses
Cancellations per lesson with a reason, reported as they happen.
Cover
Cover and supervision, with who and what.
Activities
Excursions, projects and work placements with purpose and duration.
Actuals
Planned and delivered per year group and school type.
Justification
Overview for school leadership, the staff council and the inspectorate.
Who we build an app for teaching time and lesson cancellations for
The app is intended for schools that currently track teaching time and lesson cancellations by hand.
Large schools
Several school types. Delivery per type is the core.
Schools with many projects
A lot of teaching outside the timetable. The justification matters most.
Schools facing teacher shortages
Many cancellations and covers. Reporting them is what's needed.
Boards with multiple schools
Accountability per school. The overview is the core.
Test your idea first: a working prototype in 1 day
With OneDayBuild, we turn your idea into something tangible in one day for €1,150, so you can see whether further development is worth the investment. Decide to go ahead with the full build? Then we credit the full cost.
Explore OneDayBuild →Technology and integrations
This page is about teaching time and lesson cancellations. For timetables there is our page on timetabling software for education, for a timetabling package our page on an Xedule integration, and for administration our page on an education ERP. You can read about how we work under building software.
Why choose Appfront for your teaching time and lesson cancellations app?
Teaching time that isn't recorded cannot be accounted for afterwards. That is what we build on: cancellations reported at the moment they happen, activities with justification, and delivery figures that are accurate at any point.
No reconstruction
Cancellations and cover are recorded as they happen.
Timely intervention
A year group falling behind becomes visible during the year.
Substantiated
Activities count towards purpose and curriculum.
Security and privacy for a teaching time and lesson cancellations app
The app holds data on lessons, teachers and groups, and integrates with the pupil administration system. Pupil data is limited to what is needed for registration. Access is set up by role.
The app runs in a European data centre, with encrypted storage, daily back-ups and sign-in via the identity the school already uses.
Frequently asked questions about a teaching time and lesson cancellations app
Questions schools ask before getting started.
It lets teachers and team leaders report cancellations and cover per lesson, records activities outside the timetable with purpose and duration, and shows planned and delivered teaching time per year group and school type, with overviews for accountability.
The law sets standards for teaching time per school type in secondary education, and the Inspectorate supervises compliance. What applies to your school and how you account for it is for you to decide with your board, within the rules; the app works with what you record.
That depends on how the school organises it: with a purpose, a programme and some form of evaluation, in line with the school's vision. The app records that justification per activity, so you can show why an activity counts.
By the teacher or team leader in the app, per lesson, with the reason and, if relevant, the cover. Timetablers see it immediately, and delivery is updated.
Yes, provided that package has an interface. The timetable comes from the timetabling package, so the app knows which lessons were scheduled.
The app provides overviews of cancellations and delivery per period and year group. That gives a basis for discussing the policy on lesson cancellations, on which the works council has a right of consent.
Check that first. Some timetabling packages record cancellations, and that may be enough. Custom development makes sense if you want to justify activities outside the timetable, or see delivery per year group and school type at any time.
Teaching time visible at all times?
Tell us which timetabling package you use, how cancellations are currently tracked and which activities count. We'll show you what reporting, delivery figures and justification look like.