Nobody is sure who's on duty where
The rota lives in a spreadsheet, swaps happen by email, and no one can say who actually turned up.
Custom platforms for schools, built by an educator
Whatever your workflow, we can build the platform that runs it.
If a job in your school is repetitive, rule-based or stuck in a spreadsheet, it can now be automated. We use AI-assisted development to build custom platforms around the way your school already works, in days.
Workflows we can automate
- Duty rotas
- Assessment calendars
- Event ticketing
- Lesson observations
- Exam analysis
- Performance management
- Cover
- Parents' evenings
- Trips & consent
- Report cycles
- Room bookings
- + Your workflow
Duty Manager · Break duty check-in
Tue 29 Sep · Monitor: C. Moreau
| Location | Staff | Self | Monitor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main gate | A. Mensah | ✓ 10:10 | Confirmed |
| Canteen | J. Ortega | ✓ 10:11 | Confirmed |
| Field & courts | S. Patel | Not yet | ConfirmConfirmed |
| Library | L. Nakamura | ✓ 10:13 | Confirmed |
| Bus bay | R. Haddad | Not yet | Awaiting |
Updates live on every device4 of 5 confirmed
Made in schools, for schools.
- Primary
- Secondary
- International
- All-through
- Multi-school groups
The problem
Every school has a process that eats someone's week.
The details differ from school to school, but the pattern is the same: urgent, repetitive work that's easy to get wrong and usually lands on your most experienced people. Here are a few we've already solved.
Five assessments land in one week
Departments plan in isolation, so students hit a wall of deadlines nobody saw coming.
Graduation tickets run on a spreadsheet
Families email for extra seats, tables are planned by hand, and on the night nobody knows how many people are in the hall.
What we've built
Built for real school problems. Yours could be next.
Flagship · Requested by schools
Duty Manager
Teachers book their own duties within a fair quota, swap with colleagues in a tap and mark themselves present on the day. Leaders see exactly who was where, without a spreadsheet or an email chain.
- Teachers self-book duty slots within their quota while booking is open
- Duty swaps between colleagues, accepted in one tap
- Admins assign locations and zones, then publish the schedule
- Teachers mark themselves present; monitors confirm live as they walk the building
- Attendance records showing who confirmed each duty, and when
ScreenshotDuty Manager dashboard
Teaching quality · Already built
Lesson Observations
Grade lessons live against your school's own framework, on a phone or tablet, while the lesson happens. Then run the feedback meeting and produce the report without retyping a thing.
- Tap evidence as you see it, and a grade is suggested for you
- Your school's grading rules built in, so overall grades are consistent
- Keeps working when the school wifi drops mid-lesson
- Previous next steps shown at the start of every observation
- Department and year-group overviews for leaders
ScreenshotLive grading screen
Assessment · Already built
Exams & Assessment Calendar
One calendar for every in-class assessment and mock exam in the school. It checks each booking against your assessment policy before it's made, so students are never hit with too many in one day.
- Warns before any student would sit more than your daily limit
- Understands option blocks, so it knows which students actually overlap
- Heads of department book their own slots; the exams office approves exceptions with a recorded reason
- Plans mock exam series and suggests invigilators from teachers whose lessons are freed up
- Imports your timetable to flag lessons an exam would displace
ScreenshotAssessment calendar
Data & feedback · Already built
Exam Analyser
Students scan a QR code and enter their own marks, question by question. Teachers get an instant analysis of where the class lost marks and what to teach next, without typing in a single score.
- Printable QR entry slips for every student, grouped by class
- Shows which skills the class is weakest on, from knowledge to evaluation
- Spots common patterns, like "argues but does not judge", across the class
- A "what to teach next" plan for every extended question
- Personal feedback for each student and a colour-coded Excel export
ScreenshotCohort analysis
Events · Already built
Event Ticketing & Door Check-in
Run ticketed school events like graduations and performances from one place. Families book their own seats online, staff scan QR tickets at the door, and leaders watch the room fill up live.
- Ticket rounds with a per-student limit, so every family gets a fair first chance
- A QR ticket for every guest, and a booking reference for buying more later
- Door scanning on any phone, with re-entry and duplicate-ticket checks
- Live capacity, entry log and a count of who is inside right now
- Seating by table that keeps groups together, and doors that lock when the ceremony starts
ScreenshotLive event dashboard
More platforms in use
Each one started as a job someone was doing by hand.
- Leadership developmentTracking growth for middle and senior leaders
- Teacher feedbackStructured feedback and follow-up in one place
- Options meetingsBooking and recording student options conversations
- Timetable queriesStaff raise and track timetable issues without email
- Staff & parent handbooksSearchable handbooks that are easy to keep up to date
Your workflow
Describe your workflow
Don't see your problem here? That's the point.
These are examples, not a menu. Describe the process that's slowing your team down and we'll show you what a platform for it could look like.
How it works
From idea to working platform in days.
Step 1
Tell us the workflow
A short call to walk through how the job is done today, who's involved and where it goes wrong.
Step 2
We build it with you
We build a working version within days, then refine it with your team until it fits the way your school runs.
Step 3
It runs, you get time back
Staff use it from day one. We support it and keep improving it as your school's needs change.
About
Built by someone who has stood on the duty gate.
RBCurriculum Design Co. began inside a school. After years of watching talented leaders lose hours to rotas, calendars and event logistics, I started building tools to fix it. They worked, and other schools started asking for them. Now I build platforms for any school with a workflow worth automating.
Every platform is designed around how schools actually work, from timetables and cover to the realities of a busy school day. Nothing is built for "any business" and then made to fit.
Educator-ledDesigned from real school experience
Built to orderShaped around your process, not a template
Hands-onYou work directly with the founder
Data & trust
Built with your school's responsibilities in mind.
Schools hold sensitive information. We take that seriously from the first conversation.
Minimal data
We only use the information each tool needs to work. Nothing more.
Your data stays yours
You can export or delete your school's data at any time.
Clear agreements
We work through your data protection requirements and paperwork with you before launch.
Role-based access
Staff see what they need. Leaders see the full picture.
Why now
Custom software used to be out of reach for schools.
It meant big budgets and long timelines, so schools made do with generic products and spreadsheets. AI-assisted development has changed that. A platform built around your exact process can now be ready in days, at a fraction of the traditional cost.
Individual schoolsSchool groupsDepartmentsLeadership teams
Founding schools
Become a founding school and get preferential pricing.
A limited number of early partner schools get founding rates and a direct say in how their platforms develop.
Register interestGet in touch
Tell us the workflow you'd love to automate.
Book a free 20-minute call. Describe the process, and we'll tell you honestly whether it can be automated and what that would look like.
rudi@rbcurriculumdesign.com