School timetable software, built for how Indian schools actually run

What a school timetable actually has to survive

A school timetable looks like a grid and behaves like a knot. Pull one thread — a teacher who leaves, a lab that has to move, a section that gets added in July — and the whole week has to be re-tied. The reason it takes a coordinator two or three weeks in pencil is not the drawing; it is that every square has to satisfy several rules at once, and no two squares are independent.

• A teacher cannot be in two rooms at once — and in most Indian schools a single subject teacher covers four to eight sections, so their week is the real bottleneck, not the class’s.
• The week is often six days, and Saturday is its own animal — a half day for some grades, a full day for others, a holiday for the rest — and each of those needs different bell timings.
• Assembly, zero period, breaks and lunch are not periods — but they take up the same squares, and they do not always fall at the same time for primary and senior school.
• Labs and specialist rooms are shared — one science lab, one computer room, one ground — the timetable has to ration them, not just avoid teacher clashes.
• Some subjects need a continuous block — a practical, a project, a games period. A double that is split by the lunch bell is not a double.
• Teachers have a weekly load they cannot exceed — and a good timetable spreads that load, rather than giving one teacher six periods on Monday and one on Thursday.

Most timetable software still hands you an empty grid

Open almost any timetable product and you get a blank week and a set of drag handles. It will stop you from creating a clash, which is genuinely useful — but the placing is still yours. You are doing the same job you did in pencil, faster, and you still have to know which teacher is free in period 4 on Thursday.

WeekWise inverts that. You describe the school — classes and sections, subjects per grade, teachers and what they teach, bell timings, breaks, the rules you care about — and Chalkie, the AI inside WeekWise, places every period for every class in one pass. What comes back is a finished, clash-free week you edit, not an empty one you fill.

You can see the result before you pay for it. The live demo opens a real solved school — ten classes, thirty-two teachers, a full six-day week, zero clashes — inside the actual product, with no signup.

The constraints WeekWise holds at the same time

Every one of these is a control you set before the week is generated, and every one of them is re-checked on every edit you make afterwards.

• Teacher workload — a weekly period cap per teacher that the engine never staffs past, plus a limit on how many periods in a row anyone teaches.
• Double periods, by policy — which subjects earn one, how often, from which grade upward, and whether they must land in the morning or never in the last period.
• Combined classes and option blocks — electives running as parallel groups, or two sections merged into one lesson with a single teacher and room.
• Rooms and labs — subjects that need a lab, a computer room, the music room or the ground, rationed across the school rather than double-booked.
• Breaks, lunch and Saturday — staggered lunches so the canteen is not overrun, guaranteed free periods, and a per-grade Saturday that can be off, half or full.
• Subject priority — how much of the week each subject earns, so Maths lands daily and early and the light subjects fill around it.
• Rotating cycles — a Day 1 to Day N cycle instead of a fixed Monday-to-Saturday week, for schools that run one.
• Class teachers and gap cover — a class teacher assigned their own class’s first period, and gaps covered by staff who are genuinely free.

Board alignment is checked, not assumed

WeekWise ships subject packs for CBSE, ICSE/CISCE, state boards, IB and Cambridge, sized per grade band — a Grade 4 gets EVS, a Grade 9 gets Science and Social Science split out. For CBSE it goes further and tests the curriculum you built against the board’s own scheme of studies, flagging any subject area that has drifted below the published minimum periods per week.

It also checks the one thing periods-per-week can never tell you: whether the year is long enough. The Right to Education Act sets a floor of 800 instructional hours across 200 working days for Classes I–V, and 1000 hours across 220 days for Classes VI–VIII. WeekWise already knows your bell timings and your academic calendar, so it can say you are sixty hours short in August rather than letting you find out in an inspection. The full board table is on the CBSE timetable page.

What it costs, and how a school starts

₹19,999 plus 18% GST — ₹23,599 all-inclusive — once, for one school, for one full academic year. No per-teacher licence, no per-student billing, no subscription and no renewal inside the year. Payment goes through CCAvenue and your access code is emailed the moment it clears.

There is no account to create and nothing to install. You enter the code in a browser and start. The whole first build — describing the school, generating the week, printing the sheets — is usually the same afternoon.