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Week of 30-Jun-2026 – 06-Jul-2026

Build your timetables in Excel

Setting up a class timetable just got far easier. You can now download a ready-made Excel sheet, fill in the subjects and teachers offline — at your own pace, the way most schools already plan — and upload it straight back into EDII. Even better, EDII now reads the timetable sheets your school already makes by hand, so you rarely have to start from scratch. Alongside it: a school-wide TC Received Report that shows which Transfer Certificates have arrived, plus a trio of new tools in the Teacher App — a Fees Report, Copy Check, and multi-image homework.

Timetables, the way you already work 10 updates

Building a class timetable on screen, period by period, is fiddly — and most schools already plan theirs in a spreadsheet. So this week EDII meets that habit head-on: download a ready-made Excel sheet for a class, fill it in offline with drop-down lists that keep every entry valid, and upload it back to create or update the timetable — with a review step before anything saves. And if you already have your own timetable sheet, EDII now understands it as it is, even when it doesn't match our template. Beyond timetables, front-office teams get a school-wide TC Received Report — one list showing which students' Transfer Certificates from their previous school have arrived — and teachers get three new tools on their phones: a Fees Report, Copy Check, and homework posts that can carry several photos.

Build and upload a timetable in Excel

Download a ready-made Excel sheet. On the Timetable page, pick a class and section, then use Download Excel (editable) from the Export menu (or Build in Excel → Download Template when there's no timetable yet). You get a sheet with a row for every period and a Subject and Teacher column for each day — ready to fill in offline, at your own pace.
Drop-downs keep every entry valid. The sheet comes with drop-down lists of your school's own subjects and teachers, so entries stay correct as you type. A Reference sheet lists every valid value along with simple instructions, so anyone on your team can fill it in without guessing.
Upload it back with a check first. Use Upload Excel to import your completed sheet. EDII checks it before anything is saved — flagging any teacher names or subjects it didn't recognise — and then loads the timetable into the on-screen grid for you to review.
Review, tweak, then save. Check the imported timetable looks right, make any last changes on screen, then click Save to apply it (or Cancel to discard). Saving replaces that class-section's timetable and keeps each teacher's permissions in sync automatically, exactly like editing on screen — and existing room assignments are kept as they were.

EDII reads the sheets you already make

Your own hand-made timetables, understood. Upload now reads school-made sheets far better, even when they don't match our downloaded template — including timetables where each day is one merged heading with Subject and Teacher columns underneath (teachers from such sheets were previously left blank), a single Time column like "8:00 - 8:40" instead of separate Start/End columns, and sheets with no timings at all (default period timings are filled in for you to adjust).
Two teachers in one period. When two teachers share a period, you can write them separated by a slash (e.g. "Shireen/Rabia") as well as by a comma — each name is matched against your staff list individually.
Fewer "not recognised" warnings. Teacher names typed into the sheet are now matched more reliably on upload, so you no longer see spurious "teacher not recognised" warnings caused by uploading immediately after opening the page.
Capitalisation no longer matters. If your school's subject is saved as "english" but the Excel cell says "English" (spreadsheets often capitalise words for you), the subject used to look blank in the review grid. Imported subjects are now matched to your subject list regardless of capitalisation and shown with your school's own spelling.

See which Transfer Certificates have arrived

A school-wide TC Received Report. A new TC Received Report (sidebar → TC Form, also under Documents) shows, for the whole school in one list, which students' Transfer Certificates from their previous school have been received. Each student shows a clear Received / Not Received status — the same "TC Provided?" status you see on a student's profile.
Filter, search and export. Filter by class, section and TC status (All, Received or Not Received), and search by name, admission or ID number, roll number or class. Live totals for the class or section you're viewing show how many are received versus still pending — and you can print the list or download it to Excel, CSV or text.

New in the Teacher App

See a student's fees, right in the app. A new Fees Report lets teachers check fees for their class without leaving the phone — reach it from the Fees card on the Home screen or Student Fees on a student's page. Pick a class, section and one or more months to see each student's paid and unpaid amounts, search by name, roll, ID or phone, and switch to a consolidated view that shows one total row per student across the months you've chosen.
Mark copies as checked with Copy Check. A new Copy Check lets teachers record that a student's copies or notebooks have been checked and look back over the checking history. Find it in the Exams tab, on the Home screen, or by searching "Copy Check".
Attach several photos to homework. When setting homework, teachers can now add more than one image to a single post — handy for worksheets or reference pages that run to a few pages.

Meeting your school where it already works.

The best software fits the way you already do things. This week that means timetables: plan them in Excel like you always have, upload them back in a click, and let EDII make sense of the sheets you already keep — with a review step so nothing changes until you say so. Add a front-office view of which Transfer Certificates have arrived, and it's another week of small steps toward a school that runs itself a little more. More next week.