A daily planner for teachers
Your timetable is fixed, but everything around it is not: marking piles up, cover lessons appear, meetings run over. A planner for teachers has to protect the fixed lessons and fit the flexible work into the gaps.
What makes planning hard for teachers
Marking has no natural stopping point
It expands to fill every evening unless it has a start and an end time.
Free periods vanish
Cover, duties and parents calling turn a planned free period into nothing.
Prep competes with rest
Planning next week on a Sunday night is how burnout starts.
A sample teacher day
An illustration of how a plan can be shaped. Change the times and blocks to fit your own day.
- 06:45Get ready, no email
- 07:45Check today's lessons and set out materials
- 08:30 to 15:15Lessons, duties and meetings (fixed)
- Free period20 minutes of marking, 10 minutes of photocopying
- 15:45Marking block, stop at 17:00
- 19:3030 minutes of planning for tomorrow, then done
What to tell PlanBot
Describe your goal in plain words. For example:
I teach 5 lessons a day from 8:30 to 15:15, I have 2 sets of books to mark this week and a parents' evening on Thursday. Plan my evenings so I stop work by 8 pm.
PlanBot turns that into a time-blocked plan for the day, and you can rebuild it when something changes.
Three tips
- Give marking a fixed end time, not a fixed amount.
- Mark the most important sets first and use a quick feedback code for the rest.
- Keep one evening a week with no work at all, and plan around it first.
Free tool
Pomodoro Focus Calculator
Break marking into short focused sprints with set breaks.
Frequently asked questions
Can an AI planner work around a fixed school timetable?
Yes. You tell PlanBot the hours that are taken (lessons, duties, meetings) and the work you need to fit in, and it builds the plan in the remaining time. If a cover lesson appears, you can rebuild the rest of the day.
Is PlanBot free for teachers?
The app is free to download with 3 AI plans per day. Paid plans add more plan history and features.
How do I stop marking from taking over my evenings?
Set a hard stop time and plan the work to fit it. When the stop time arrives, whatever is left moves to the next slot instead of eating into your evening.
Try PlanBot free on Android
3 AI plans every day, no credit card. Tell it your goal and get a plan in about 30 seconds.