Creating a school schedule: 7 free tools for the start of the 2026 school year

Last updated on 7 September 2026

At the end of August, the class is almost ready, and there is still this painting to do. The one that will be displayed on the wall, distributed to families, slipped into the journal, and reworked three times before the All Saints’ Day holidays. The schedule of the class is one of those documents that is redone every year, thinking that there must be a faster method.

There are, and most of them are free. The problem is that you often come across PDF templates shared by colleagues, which are impossible to modify without going through a random conversion. Or on a spreadsheet, which does very well provided you agree to lose an evening lining up cells.

In short, here are seven online tools to build a school schedule, classified according to what you need now: go fast without creating an account, have a tool that will follow you throughout the year, or build the schedules of an entire institution. If you are looking instead to organise your students in the room, the article on Free tools to generate a class plan complete this one well.

Three tools without registration, to go fast

This is the most useful category if you want a printable PDF within 20 minutes and nothing more. No account, no password forgotten in October.

By chance. A blank schedule to fill and print

By chance offers a completely free time generator that works in the browser, without installing anything and without creating an account. You start from a blank table, choose the number of days to display (4, 5, 6 or 7), set the time range, and then fill in the boxes.

Personalisation goes further than we imagine: background colour by activity to distinguish materials at a glance, type style, colour of title and headings, addition of logo. Click on ‘Create PDF’ and the document opens in a new tab, ready to download and print.

What I like: it is probably the shortest route between ‘I have nothing’ and ‘I have a schedule posted on the wall’. No friction, no count, and the result is clean.

What I like less: Par Chance is not a site designed for the school. It is a generalist PDF document generator, which also hosts model employment contracts and solitaire games. The interface has aged and the environment is busy. The tool does exactly what it promises.

TeachApp. The generator designed for teachers

TeachApp is a French site that gathers several small tools for the class. Its time-use module is used without registration and is aimed directly at our profession.

The principle is simple: you enter your materials and sub-materials, then you drag them into the grid. You set up your classes, your days and your schedules. The interest, and this is what distinguishes it from Par Chance, is the monitoring of the hourly volume while you are building. You see live where you stand in relation to the official schedules, which avoids discovering in November that it takes 40 minutes to question the world. The result is exported as a PDF.

I had already reported this site for its Graphic Design Exercise Generator.

What I like: calculation of the hourly volume during construction. This is exactly the service you would expect from a tool made by someone who knows the job.

What I like less: the site itself recommends using it on computer rather than mobile, which is honest but limiting. And TeachApp now has a paid Pro offer. The time-use module remains free, but the entire site is no longer fully free to access as it was in its early days.

The schedule of school teachers. The Little New

The website Teachers of schools has put online its own schedule generator summer 2026. Drag-and-drop construction, automatic calculation of durations, continuous backup of your work, PDF export and printing. We find the expected functions, with the advantage of a tool designed for the first degree.

Automatic backup should be noted: you can close the tab, come back the next day, your grid is still there. On a document that is reworked over several days pending the last assignments, this is not a detail.

What I like: it’s free, it’s French, it’s designed for primary school, and the author of the site listens to feedback.

What I like less: the tool is young and will surely evolve further. The site is funded by advertising, with a no-ad formula offered in exchange for a donation. Nothing shocking for an independent site, but the environment is less calm than on a dedicated tool.

Two free tools, but with an account

Here, we change our logic. You create an account, and in return the schedule becomes the starting point for everything else: logbook, preparations, displays.

Teetsh. The schedule module remained free

Teetsh is a French platform for school teachers. Most of its tools are paid, but the schedule module is completely free, with no time limit and no credit card. You just have to register.

It is now the most comprehensive tool of this selection in the field of time use alone. A few functions that make the difference:

• Importing the existing one. If you already have a schedule in Word, PDF or even in a photo, Teetsh picks it up and recreates it in the app. All you have to do is change it. For a teacher who has been dragging the same file for four years, this is the most concrete time-saving of the whole list.
• The hourly volume in real time, with the possibility of excluding certain sessions from the calculation (recreations, breaks) and a ‘workshop’ option which divides the time between the groups without counting it twice.
• Multi-level classes, in single view with joint and specific sessions, or in columns per level.
• Week A and Week B, by duplicating the use of time.
• Sharing by link or QR code, searchable by a colleague or replacement without the need for an account. Useful on the day you're away.
• A library of templates by level, from kindergarten to CM2 and for the specialist, which you can resume and adapt.

What I like: the import of an existing schedule, and the fact that Teetsh assumes to leave this module free without turning it into a frustrating call product.

What I like less: all the rest of the platform is paid, and the invitation to switch to the subscription is present at all times. Consult the Rates page Before you commit, the formulas have evolved in recent months. This starts at 6 Euros per month after a free 30-day test.

Canva Education. For a schedule that makes you want

The Canva School Time Schedule Page offers several dozen models to fill and print, with many models in French adapted to the class. We are here on a different ground from the previous tools: Canva does not calculate anything, does not check anything, but produces a much more neat document.

It is the right choice for the schedule that is distributed to students, especially in Cycle 2 and Cycle 3, where a legible and colourful document really helps to set the benchmarks of the week. Some colleagues even make it an activity: each student personalizes their own.

Let's remember that Canva is free for teachers through its education programme, with access to the image bank and advanced functions.

What I like: graphic quality, and the possibility of starting from a model rather than a blank page.

What I like less: no notion of hourly volume or pedagogical constraint. Canva shapes, he doesn't build. Plan to redistribute elsewhere before moving on.

For an entire college or high school: OpenEDT

Change of scale. Until now, we have been talking about the schedule of a class, built by a teacher. OpenEDT tackles the much more painful case of the entire establishment, where a single person usually spends his evenings at the end of August copying the wishes of an entire team.

The bias is interesting: Time use becomes collective work. A manager creates a space for the establishment, indicates the levels, the number of classes and some time constraints (Wednesday or Saturday morning freed, mornings of three hours). It then distributes a link and an access code. Each teacher then declares his/her sessions himself/herself in a shared grid: its class, its subject, its room, its groups, its consecutive hours. Everything is recorded during the keystroke and colleagues see the lines coming live.

A click on "Generate" and OpenEDT calculates a schedule for each class and for each teacher, without ever placing twice a class, a teacher or a room in the same niche. It manages language groups, aligned options, co-teaching, fortnightly classes, and one- to four-hour blocks that never cross the meridian break. You retrieve the result in color HTML, print-ready PDF and Excel file.

Everything is free, without user account, without installation, and the source code is public. An establishment that so wishes may host it on its own servers, without a licence or public contract.

What I like: the idea of allocating the input to the team instead of having it carried by a single person. And the fact that free software is slipping into an area where we were only seeing expensive proprietary solutions.

What I like less: one cannot declare the unavailability of a particular teacher, which is a real limit in a real institution. Hourly constraints are global and apply to everyone. OpenEDT does not replace school life software: it does not manage the notes, the call or the textbook. To be seen as a distribution generator, whose Excel export can then feed into your usual tool.

If you want to go further: Edumoov

Edujournal, Edumoov’s journal app, deserves to be cited even if it pays off, because its schedule serves as the basis for everything else. You build it once at the beginning of the year, and it then automatically fills in the recurring slots in your journal book every week.

The module manages the alternating weeks (pair and odd, or per period), automatically calculates the hourly distributions by discipline, and prints the schedule as a list or table for the compulsory display of the class. This last point seems anecdotal until the day you prepare an inspection.

Allow around EUR 10 per year for the licence. And if you start this year, note that Edumoov is currently offering Edulivret, Educartable and Edujournal for one year to new teachers under its CRPE offer.

What I like: continuity between the schedule and the logbook, which removes a weekly recapture.

What I like less: it is an ecosystem. You do not come there to make a schedule, you come there to organise your whole year. If your need stops at the table to be displayed, it is disproportionate.

I just want a blank model to print

This is a frequent request and deserves a direct response, without creating an account.

For a blank table, customizable and downloadable in PDF in a few minutes, go to By chance. This is the shortest route.

For an already formatted template that you just need to complete, the Teetsh Model Library covers all levels from kindergarten to CM2, including specialist, and models of Canva are well suited for a document intended for students or families.

A piece of advice in passing: Before you fill anything, start from the official schedules by discipline and cut off the recreations. A schedule built on the theoretical 24 hours never falls just once confronted with the reality of the day.

Week A, week B and multi-level classes

These are the two situations that make most generators stall, and they concern many people: double and triple levels, decompartmentalizations, specialized devices, split positions on several schools.

On alternating weeks, Teetsh involves duplicating the use of time; Edujournal offers native management of week variants, and OpenEDT declares the courses in fortnight directly in the grid.

On multi-level classes, Teetsh leaves the choice between a single view distinguishing common and specific sessions, and a column display by level. This is the most successful answer I have seen on this point.

Tools without registration do not handle any of this. You will need to duplicate your document and maintain two versions by hand. You might as well know that before you start.

What about AI in all this?

Few things, in fact, and it is rather healthy. The AI time generators circulating target establishments and directorates, with monthly three-digit subscriptions. Nothing about a school teacher preparing his class.

Where a conversational assistant can help you, it is upstream: ask him to spread the official hours of a level over a four-day week, taking into account your constraints on decompartmentalisation and gym slots. You get a starting frame to discuss, which you then format in one of the tools above. Check the totals, the exercise remains approximate.

So which one to choose?

If you want to finish tonight and stop thinking about it, By chance.

If you want to monitor your hourly volume while you're building, TeachApp.

If you are ready to create an account and are looking for the most comprehensive tool, Teetsh, especially if you already have a schedule to import.

If you are responsible for the schedules of a college or high school, OpenEDT It's really worth the detour, if only for the way it redistributes the input work.

None of these tools will exempt you from taking everything back in mid-September when a student arrives and a pool slot shifts. But they'll keep you from starting over. To be tested.

What do you do with your class schedule? A spreadsheet, a word processor, an online service? The comments are there to complete this list.