Getting started
Set up your academic year, timetable and curriculum — then let Skeme schedule your lessons.
Setting Skeme up takes about twenty minutes. You do it once, at the start of the year, and the rest of the year largely looks after itself.
1. Quick Setup — the shape of your year
Quick Setup asks for the structure of your academic year:
- One-week or two-week timetable. If your school runs Week A and Week B, choose two weeks and Skeme alternates them for you.
- Your periods. Add or remove teaching periods, breaks, lunches and tutor time until the day matches your school’s.
- Term start and end dates.
- Break weeks. Toggle any week as a break and the calendar fills in correctly around it.
Get this right and everything downstream follows. If your school day changes later, you can come back to it.
2. Add your timetable
Now place your classes on the timetable you just built. Add class groups as you go — you only ever type a group’s name once, and Skeme remembers it.
Once your timetable is in, Timetable view lets you tap a class to highlight every period you teach them. Handy for answering “when do I next see 9C?” without counting squares.
3. Build your curriculum
Your curriculum lives separately from your scheduling, so it survives from one year to the next.
The structure is:
- A course — usually a year group. Each class group belongs to one.
- Topics within that course.
- Lessons and homework within each topic.
You do not have to build the whole year before you start. A topic is enough to get going.
4. Schedule your lessons
This is the part that saves the evening. Choose a class and apply:
- a single lesson,
- a whole topic, or
- your entire teaching order.
Skeme works out which periods that class has and in what order, then fills them in. Your term is planned.