Case Study · Internal System · Web

BreakTime

Staff duty scheduling for busy schools. Fair rosters, automatic cover and no more clipboard chaos.

IndustryEducation Operations
PlatformWeb
ServicesDesign, Engineering, Internal Systems
StatusLive at partner schools

The challenge

Break-time supervision at a large school was planned on a clipboard: who is on playground duty, who covers when someone is sick and who has done more than their share. It broke weekly.

BreakTime had to build fair rosters automatically and survive real school life, where plans change by 7:45am.

Rosters that build themselves

The scheduler balances duties across staff automatically, respecting timetables, fairness and who covered last time.

  • Automatic fair duty allocation
  • Timetable-aware scheduling
  • Duty zones mapped per break
BreakTimeYou are on quad duty at first break today

Cover in two taps

Sick at 7am? Staff request cover from their phone and the system finds the fairest available replacement instantly.

  • Instant cover requests
  • Fairness-weighted replacements
  • Push reminders before each duty
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The staff room dashboard

Management sees the week’s supervision at a glance: coverage, gaps and duty loads per staff member, before problems reach the playground.

  • Weekly coverage overview
  • Duty load balance per teacher
  • Incident notes per zone
Results
100%Breaks covered this term
90%Less time spent rostering
52Staff scheduled fairly
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