For whoever runs the school day in Australian primary schools
“Hey, sorry, I won’t be in today.”Mrs Wilson’s classes and her oval duty go on the cover list.“Who’s covering 3B?”Miss Kelly, the relief teacher, all day. No relief teacher free? Bell Path suggests a teacher or assistant teacher on staff, or a class to put 3B in with.“Nobody’s on the oval.”Miss Kelly has the 1:15 oval duty, and it’s on her day sheet.
Bell Path runs the school day from your timetable: cover for anyone away, duty rosters, wet days and the support staff timetable. It can build your timetable too, around every teacher’s release time and working days.
Or email a photo of your timetable to hello@bellpath.com.au
We load the timetable you already have within 48 hours. From your first sign-in after that, cover, duty rosters, the support staff timetable and the rest of the week-to-week tools are free for two weeks. Then choose a plan to keep publishing, printing and sending to staff. Nothing is deleted. No timetable yet? Build one in Bell Path.
Watch Bell Path build a timetable (a real recorded run, 45 seconds).
Chosen by government, Catholic and independent primary schools in Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and the ACT.
Everything Bell Path does.
Every part works from one list of your staff, classes and rooms, so a change in one place shows everywhere else.
Captured from Bell Path on 30 October 20269 October 2026. Stringybark Creek Primary School is fictitious and every name is invented. It is a Victorian school, so the screens use Victorian words; your school sees its own state's. Tap a picture to open it full size.
Daily Cover
Mark who is away and Bell Path lists every lesson and duty they leave, then suggests who can take each one, counting cover so the same people are not asked every time.
- The relief teacher gets their day sheet by text and opens it on their phone, with no account or app.
- Cover taken in a teacher’s release time goes on the time in lieu ledger once you publish the day.
Yard Duty
Build the term’s roster in Bell Path, or upload the spreadsheet, Word table, PDF or photo you already have, even one made in a free tool.
- On the day, an away teacher’s duties go on the cover list and staff see their own.
- Gaps show before you publish, and a whole-year fairness count includes lunchtime clubs.
Built for the school you actually run.
Classes on their own bells
A support unit or a year level can have its own break times. The timetable and cover both follow it.
How it worksSpecialists shared with another school or campus
Mark the days and sessions they are with you, every week or only in Week A or Week B. Bell Path builds release time around them. It cannot yet follow the other school’s own longer cycle, such as an eight-day cycle. If yours do, send us your timetable first and we will tell you what Bell Path can do with it.
How it worksMulti-age classes, job shares and assistant teachers
Classes like 1/2D, part-time days and job-share pairs are part of every timetable it builds. An assistant teacher can take a lesson of their own, such as Language and Culture.
How it works
What happens when a teacher is away.
Mrs Wilson is sick on Tuesday and whoever takes her call enters it once. This is what everyone else sees, from the first phone call to the home bell.
- 7:40 am
Whoever takes the call
Marks Mrs Wilson away.
Bell Path reads her Tuesday and lists what needs cover: four lessons and her lunch duty. Languages needs nothing, because Mrs Brown has the class.
- 7:45 am
Miss Kelly, relief teacher
Gets her day by text.
The school has booked her. One link opens 3B’s day on her phone: the times, the room, who to ask, where to report and Mrs Wilson’s lunch duty. She needs no account and no app.
- 8:10 am
Mrs Wilson, at home
Sees who has her class.
Her staff portal shows what is covered while she is away, so nobody has to ring her back.
- 8:50 am
Ms Lee, support staff member
Follows her own day page.
Her support time in 3B is on her phone with no login. If she is moved to cover someone, the page tells her. Students show as initials.
- 1:15 pm
Everyone on duty
It rains, and the duty plan moves inside.
One switch turns the lunch roster into the wet day plan. The same people on the yard go to their indoor areas.
- 3:00 pm
Mrs Wilson
Hears how the day went.
Miss Kelly leaves her an end-of-day note on how each session went, written or as one voice message.
An example day with made-up names. Each step is something Bell Path does today.
Read more about Daily CoverSend us the timetable you already have.
A Word table, a spreadsheet, a PDF or a photo of the printed one. We load it into Bell Path for you, so you don’t retype a thing, and email you when your week is in.
Make your account
About a minute. No payment details.
Send your file
Your timetable, plus your duty roster and support staff timetable if you have them. A photo is fine. Up to 10 files, with a note about job-shares or anything unusual.
Your week is in
Within 48 hours. The week-to-week tools on it are free for two weeks from your first sign-in, then choose a plan to keep publishing, printing and sending to staff.
In Bell Path
Example · Class 3B
A timetable has to keep every part-timer's days, every specialist rotation, every meeting and every planning-time entitlement correct at the same time, and changing one affects the others.
On a spreadsheet
5 cells to find and fix| Row | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3B teacher | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson |
| Planning | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson |
| Lunch duty | White | Wilson | Park | Ryan | Wilson |
- Thursday and Friday still say Wilson, so you retype them.
- Her release time still counts five days. You recount it by hand.
- She is still on Friday’s lunch duty, on a different sheet.
- Moving a specialist to fit Mr Taylor can knock another class. You check them all.
In Bell Path
One change, then build again| Row | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3B teacher | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | Taylor | Taylor |
| Planning | Wilson | Wilson | Wilson | Taylor | Taylor |
| Lunch duty | White | Wilson | Park | Ryan | Flagged |
- You set her days to Monday to Wednesday and give 3B to Mr Taylor.
- Bell Path rebuilds the week and moves the specialists around both teachers.
- It shows you the new week with no clashes and release time for every teacher.
- The duty roster flags Friday: “Mrs Wilson does not work on Friday.” You pick who takes it.
Build 2027’s timetable in Bell Path.
Once the timetable you run now is in, Bell Path starts 2027’s from the staff and classes it already has, so you begin from your school, not a blank page.
- Setup ~1 hour
Enter how your school works.
Add your classroom teachers, specialist teachers, classes, rooms, meetings and the unwritten agreements that make the week work. Bell Path keeps all of it for every timetable after this.
- Same day ~1 hour
Build, review and publish.
A small school builds in about 6 to 9 minutes, and larger schools take longer. You then check the teacher, class and room views, and Bell Path shows any clashes before you publish.
- Later Minutes
Change one detail and build again.
When a staff member, room, meeting or rule changes, Bell Path rebuilds from what it already knows about your school.
Watch Bell Path build a timetable
A real recorded run for Stringybark Creek Primary School, replayed in 45 seconds. You see every timetable Bell Path found as it searched, from its first to its best.
One school subscription, from $679 a year.
Every plan includes the full product, with no charge per staff member and no setup fee. You can also set up your school and see the first sessions of every day in the timetable Bell Path builds before paying.
Bell Path needs to save less than an hour a week to pay for itself, for a school of up to 450 students, and less than an hour and a half up to 600. See how it adds up
For up to 100 students
- 101 to 300 students
- $1,349 a year
- 301 to 450 students
- $2,699 a year
- 451 to 600 students
- $3,599 a year
Prices in AUD. No GST is currently added. Annual prices range from $679 to $12,599, based on enrolment, classes and teaching staff. Paying every 3 months costs more over a year.
What principals ask before they sign up.
“Our school is too unusual for this to work.”
Job-share pairs, specialists who also teach a class, time in lieu and rules that differ by year level are all handled today. If you build your timetable in Bell Path, checkout only opens once Final Check has confirmed your setup can build it, so if your school does not fit, you find out before any money changes hands.
“We already use Compass. I'm not replacing everything.”
You are not meant to. Compass and Sentral record who’s away and who replaces them. Bell Path builds your specialist timetable around release time, gives the relief teacher their whole day on their phone, and keeps duty rosters fair, all from the same week.
“I don't have time to set up something new right now.”
You don’t have to. Send us the timetable you already run and we load it for you, free, with your staff and classes. Daily Cover works on it from the day it’s in, and building next year’s timetable can wait until you’re ready.
Three things Bell Path does not do.
It is not for secondary schools.
Secondary timetabling is a different problem with different staffing and subject lines. We have not solved it, and we do not claim to. A K-12 school can use it for its primary years.
It cannot guess your unwritten agreements.
To build a new timetable, someone who knows how the school really runs has to sit down for about an hour and enter them. No import can do that part for you.
It will not quietly publish a broken timetable.
If what you have asked for cannot be scheduled, Bell Path stops and tells you why, instead of handing back something that looks finished and is not. That does mean some schools need to relax a rule before a timetable will build.
A printable pack for whoever signs off at your school.
Bell Path · school approval pack
For the principal’s desk
Where school data is kept.
Bell Path is an Australian business run from Victoria, and its servers are in Australia, in Melbourne and Sydney.
Who handles it.
It lists the data Bell Path holds, the companies that process it, how public links are limited and where to get support.
It keeps student data to a minimum.
The timetable does not need student names at all. Where a support plan names a student, an initials-only setting limits what appears on screen and in print.
How Bell Path compares.
Side-by-side comparisons with other timetabling tools, including where another tool is the better choice.
See all 12 comparisonsYour timetable, in Bell Path within 48 hours.
Send the file you already have, and build next year’s timetable in Bell Path when you’re ready.
