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Plain guides on school bus tracking, route planning, the parent app, the school timetable and daily cover, written by the people who build Schooliy.

School transport

  • School bus route planning without the spreadsheet

    What automatic school bus route planning does, the rules it must respect (capacity, gender, siblings, route length, where the bus sleeps), and five changes that save a transport coordinator hours every week.

    · 4 min read
  • Stop-by-stop attendance and SOS on the school bus

    Why a paper list on the bus fails, what the escort records at every stop, how a one-tap SOS reaches the school with the bus's location, and the reports the school can stand on afterwards.

    · 3 min read
  • School bus tracking system: what your school actually needs

    A GPS tracker shows a dot on a map. A school bus tracking system runs the whole school run: routes, the parent app, attendance at every stop and an SOS button. What to check before you choose.

    · 4 min read
  • Transport software for bus companies and school groups

    Running student transport for several schools from one dashboard: data kept apart per school, depot policies for buses that sleep at drivers' homes, staff paired by distance, and reporting per client.

    · 3 min read

Timetables and cover

  • How a school timetable generator works

    What a school timetable generator needs from you, how it places lessons, why some lessons stay unplaced, and how to fix them with locks and manual moves before publishing.

    · 4 min read
  • Covering an absent teacher in three clicks

    What a daily cover board does when a teacher is absent: ranked substitutes, confirmation on the substitute's phone, room changes and cancellations, and the month-end count of covers per teacher.

    · 3 min read
  • From teacher allocation to a published timetable

    The order in which to set up a school timetable: year and bells, sections, curriculum, teachers, rooms, allocation, and then generate, check and publish, with what each step catches before the next.

    · 4 min read

For parents

  • What a school bus tracking app gives parents

    For parents: how a school bus tracking app works every morning, from the live map and the notification before your stop to boarding alerts, one-tap absences, alternate pickup places and what happens in an emergency.

    · 3 min read

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