Straight answers before you put your workload into it

It’s the part of Teacher Sorted that helps you get everyday school admin done. Draft parent/carer messages, class updates, trip letters and assemblies, plan visits, build a non-identifying pupil support target, or create and print your teaching timetable. You review anything it drafts before using it.

Open Admin Sorted from the sidebar, or More on your phone. It’s included with Teacher Sorted during your trial and membership. You don’t need a separate subscription.

Yes. Open Admin Sorted → Teaching Timetable. Upload a timetable file or photo, paste its text, choose a starting example or build your own week. Check the lessons and times, then save. You can use Week A/B, make changes to specific dates, print it and choose whether to show it in Today and Week. It’s optional and doesn’t automatically add work time. Keep pupil-identifying information out of uploads.

Choose one job, add the details you know, then review them before creating a draft. Check and edit the result before you use it. For a first try, choose Write a class update or Write a newsletter contribution.

A quick job helps with one piece of admin. Projects such as Plan a trip, Plan a class assembly and Teaching Timetable keep work you’ll return to. You choose which project preparation jobs to add to your Teacher Sorted workload. Starting a project doesn't silently rearrange your week.

Saved Work lets you return to supported jobs and projects, including teaching timetables. For messages and letters, use Save version to keep an accepted draft. Teacher assembly scripts can be saved too. Visit-risk wording needs copying out. Support Target Builder inputs and targets aren’t saved: copy them into your school’s usual system before leaving.

No. You review and edit drafts, then use your school’s usual sending and approval process. Check venue information, arrangements and risks with the relevant people. Admin Sorted helps you prepare; it doesn’t book a visit or approve a risk assessment.

Follow the guidance in the job you’re using. Keep pupil names and identifying or sensitive casework out of general text boxes and group-level jobs. In a parent/carer message, the dedicated first-name field stays in your browser and is replaced by a placeholder before drafting or saving. Support Target Builder accepts relevant non-identifying educational context after you confirm it contains nothing that could identify the pupil. Its inputs and targets aren’t saved.

No. Teacher Sorted helps with the work around teaching: planning and preparation work, marking, assessment, resources, communication, reports, admin, pastoral follow-up and the other jobs competing for your non-teaching time. It does not generate your lessons for you and you do not need to enter every lesson you teach.

No. Your teaching timetable is optional. If you'd like your lessons alongside your workload, open Admin Sorted → Teaching Timetable. Upload a photo or document, paste a timetable, or build one yourself. Check the draft, save it, then choose whether to show it in Today and Week. You can also print it.

Setup is deliberately focused on the information Teacher Sorted actually needs: your usual non-teaching work time and a few preferences. You can then start adding real work straight away and refine things as you use it.

No. Use it when work appears, when you need to make a decision, when you start a work session and when you finish. The point is to remember the plan between visits, not to give you another app to maintain all day.

Not unless you have chosen to make that time available. Teacher Sorted works with the boundaries you set. If the work does not fit inside them, it shows the gap rather than treating your evening as spare work time.

No. Teacher Sorted can understand natural wording and suggest sensible options, but it does not make new priority decisions behind your back. You remain in control of what changes.

Yes. The standard trial is seven days, or 14 days for an eligible Creator Partner referral. A payment card is required, but the amount due when the trial starts is £0 in GBP checkout or A$0 in Australian checkout. Stripe holds the payment method securely. Unless you cancel before the trial ends, your selected monthly or annual subscription takes its first payment when the trial ends.

Teacher Sorted uses that check to confirm you control the email address on the account. We also ask you to type your email twice at signup to catch typing mistakes before payment setup. You can verify after Stripe or do it later. Verification does not pause, cancel or enable billing: your trial and selected subscription continue on their stated schedule unless you cancel.

Unless you cancel before the trial ends, the plan you selected at signup takes its first payment at the trial boundary and then renews on that billing interval. That happens whether or not you have completed email verification. If you cancel during the trial, you keep access until the trial ends and no first subscription payment is taken.

A to-do list tells you what needs doing. Teacher Sorted also compares the work that matters with the non-teaching time you have chosen to use, so you can see whether the plan is realistic. When the week changes, it helps you see the effect rather than simply adding another item to the list.

Use Tell Teacher Sorted in ordinary language, or press T on desktop. For example: “Mark Year 6 maths books by Friday, about 45 minutes.” You can also change a job or say “I lost my PPA today.” Check the suggested details before saving; Teacher Sorted asks when something important is unclear.

Add the time you genuinely expect to have available for work. A 60-minute block gives you 60 minutes. A start time is optional. You can also say whether the block is suitable for uninterrupted focus, so concentration-heavy work is less likely to be suggested in the wrong place.

No. Timetabled lessons and commitments can appear beside your plan, but saving a timetable does not add PPA or free periods as work time. If a timetable shows time you could use for work, Teacher Sorted asks before adding it. Your existing jobs and work hours stay as they are unless you choose otherwise.

Yes. The Teaching Timetable builder supports a usual week or Week A/B, as well as changes to individual dates and future weeks. You can print a class or teacher timetable and return to saved versions. Check any imported details before using them.

Yes. Settings → Emails gives you a private Teacher Sorted address. Forward a work email you have been sent, or send a new email yourself from Outlook, Gmail or another mail app when a job occurs to you. Teacher Sorted creates the clearest actionable job and keeps the source email and supported attachments for reference. If the email does not give a duration, the job waits safely in Needs Details instead of Teacher Sorted inventing one. It only sees messages sent to that private address, not your inbox.

Use Available from when the job genuinely cannot be started before a particular date or time. Teacher Sorted will not put it into work time before then. It does not book any time or change the deadline.

If one job cannot be done until something else is finished, Teacher Sorted can keep that link with it. It will not put the later job into work time just because there is a gap available.

Teacher Sorted shows the gap rather than pretending everything fits. It can show concrete ways to make room, move work or choose a different day, while leaving the difficult decision with you. Nothing is silently rearranged or pushed into your evening.

Record the time you have lost and Teacher Sorted rechecks the plan. If the change creates a real problem, you see the effect and can choose how to deal with it. Your usual weekly pattern stays intact unless you choose to change it.

No. The day you plan to work on something is kept separate from its real deadline. If a Wednesday deadline is moved to Thursday, it remains visibly overdue unless you explicitly change the deadline itself.

Yes. You can rearrange planned work without rebuilding the whole plan. Teacher Sorted checks the available time and the job’s requirements before making the change, and a move never silently changes the real deadline.

Yes. Work is where your full list lives. Search and filter it by things such as due date, status, category, context or time needed. For work that is ready to do, use Plan today or Plan this week and Teacher Sorted will check whether there is suitable work time.

If the next move is yours, keep the job active. Once you have done your part and are waiting for somebody or something else, mark it as Waiting. It stays visible without competing for work time, and you can add a follow-up date if you want one.

You can pause your usual working pattern and regular jobs for a school holiday or other different week. If you choose to work, add only the time you want to make available. Your normal pattern returns afterwards.

Yes. Tell Teacher Sorted can handle changes as well as new work. You can say that a report will take another 30 minutes, that something is finished or that a job has changed. If more than one existing item could match, Teacher Sorted asks rather than changing the wrong one.

Yes. In Settings → Calendar, connect your Google account and choose which calendars Teacher Sorted may read. You can show event names or just busy times, and choose whether each calendar blocks your work time or is shown for reference only. Events reduce the time available only where they overlap work time you've chosen; they don't create new work hours.

Yes. You can choose one or more calendars from your connected Google accounts to receive timed Teacher Sorted work. You control which ones, and can change them later. Other calendars remain read-only. Anyone with access to a selected calendar may see job titles, so don't include pupil-identifying information.

Yes. Settings → Calendar has a private link that lets Google, Outlook or Apple Calendar show your planned Teacher Sorted work. This link is one-way: changing an event there does not move the job in Teacher Sorted, and it does not let Teacher Sorted read your meetings. A direct Outlook connection for planning around meetings is coming soon.

Yes. Week has List and Calendar views of the same plan. You can see work waiting to be placed and move jobs into suitable work time. Today also shows your planned work alongside calendar events in time order.

Yes. You can add a reminder to a job and choose the available reminder methods in your settings, including in-app, push or email. Push notifications depend on permission from your browser or device.

Yes. When there is room, Start my day can show optional additions in the work time where they could fit. Add them, adjust them or start with the plan you already have. Nothing is added until you choose it.

Yes. Open a task with a time estimate and choose Start working, or use Do this now in Work. A small work timer follows you around Teacher Sorted on the same device. Tap it to pause, resume, stop timing or deliberately complete the task. Pausing keeps the time already worked, so you can pick up from the same total after an interruption. Timing is optional; you can use Teacher Sorted without it.

Yes. Start working on a task, open the work timer controls and expand Focus timer. Choose 25, 45 or 60 minutes, or a custom duration from 5 to 180 minutes. The countdown uses working time, so it pauses when you pause the work timer. When it finishes, Teacher Sorted shows an in-app message and you choose whether to keep working, pause or complete the task.

No. Stop timing ends the clock but leaves the task unfinished, with its estimate and recorded progress unchanged. Complete task is a separate choice. Starting or stopping timing does not move the task’s planned slot or deadline. You can update the remaining work yourself as the job becomes clearer. The timer runs on this device; it is not a cross-device timesheet or a guarantee of an alert while the app is closed.

Yes. Notes is for short work-related thoughts you want to keep without a deadline or time estimate. You can pin up to three to Home, bring one back to review, link it to a job or archive it. On desktop, press N to add a note. Notes do not use your work time.

If Teacher Sorted spots a likely match, you’ll see a small Possible note indicator alongside the task on Home, Today or Work and at the top when you open it. Tap it to read the note, then choose whether to link it or mark it Not related. A linked note shows a Note indicator. Matches are best guesses, so use similar words for the subject and job in your note and task, or link them yourself from Notes. Nothing is linked or added to your plan automatically.

Yes. If the work can genuinely be done in useful chunks, you can mark it that way and set the smallest useful chunk. Teacher Sorted can then build a split plan across suitable work blocks instead of waiting for one enormous gap. As you make progress or update the estimate, the remaining work stays visible.

Yes. Open a routine in Work or Today to start it, use the work timer or edit its repeating pattern. Completing this week's occurrence records that finish and leaves the next occurrence in place. Use Edit repeating routine to change it, or Delete when you no longer need the routine. Finished occurrences remain separate from the next one.

Yes. Home's Finish for now helps you review what's finished and where you'll pick up next time. You don't have to clear the whole list to stop. Nothing is automatically pushed into your evening or given a new deadline.

Primary users can keep a practical preparation job together as one Preparation item in Work, move it through stages such as adapting, printing, collecting and setting out, and let the next useful action take part in planning. You do not need a separate task for every small preparation step.

Yes. Marking is one example. A Batch can represent repeated units such as papers, books, calls or checks. Record the total, how many are complete and roughly how long each one takes, and Teacher Sorted keeps the remaining quantity and time visible as you make progress.

Finished means the work was completed. Archived means you decided not to do it, so it stays separate from completed work. Both remain available in Work and can be restored. Permanent delete is separate: Teacher Sorted asks you to confirm it and gives you a short Undo window.

Use Fit Finder. Tell it how much work time you have and it can show jobs where you could make useful progress, rather than simply giving you the next item on a list.

Teacher Sorted keeps track of what is still left. If the original estimate has run out, it asks roughly how much more time you need. If that remaining work still does not fit, Teacher Sorted shows you that clearly and you can still stop.

You can see where you left off, the first thing you intended to do, any note you left yourself, the time you have now and whether anything important has changed. You do not have to reconstruct the workload from memory.

No. A rough estimate is useful, and you can correct it as the work becomes clearer. Work with missing details can wait safely until you know enough to include it in the plan.

Both. Primary teachers can handle preparation and resources as well as ordinary tasks. Secondary teachers can work across classes, marking and one-week or two-week patterns. The underlying idea is the same: make the work fit the time available.

It uses AI to understand natural wording and to help research or draft supported Admin Sorted jobs. Check generated drafts and research before you use them. The workload calculations follow planning rules, and Teacher Sorted does not invent deadlines, working time or consequences. You confirm changes before they are made.

Keep names and identifying details out of your workload and general text boxes. Admin Sorted gives specific guidance for each job. A parent/carer message has a separate first-name field that stays in your browser; the name is replaced with a placeholder before drafting or saving. See the Admin Sorted questions above for support targets and other privacy boundaries.

No. Your workload and plan are for you. There is no manager dashboard, staff ranking or productivity score.

Yes. You can download your workload data or delete your account from Settings. Account deletion asks for confirmation before removing the records linked to it.

The standard UK plans are £5.99 a month or £49 a year. The price and first payment date are shown before you start your card-backed trial. All features are included; there are no feature tiers. Existing eligible Founding Teacher subscriptions keep their agreed annual price while the subscription remains active.

The £39-a-year Founding Teacher offer closed to new sign-ups on 1 October 2026. If you started an eligible trial before the cutoff, that offer may still be available in your account. An eligible founding annual subscription keeps its price while it remains active; cancelling ends that entitlement. It isn't a lifetime one-off payment.

Yes. During the free trial you can cancel from Teacher Sorted Billing and keep access until the trial ends without a first charge. Once a paid period has begun, billing settings take you to Stripe’s secure portal, where you can cancel, update payment details and download invoices. If you cancel a paid subscription, you keep access until the end of the period you have already paid for.

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