Cover planner
Find a free teacher for every lesson an absent colleague misses.
What it does
When a teacher is absent, InstLane lists their lessons for the day and suggests colleagues who are free that period, with the fewest covers this week first.
- Suggestions based on free periods
- Fair distribution of covers
- Covers appear in the teacher’s day
How it works.
Three steps from setting it up to using it every day.
- 1
See who is away
Approved leave and absences show which lessons need cover.
- 2
Find a free teacher
InstLane lists who is free in that period and qualified for the subject.
- 3
Tell everyone
The cover teacher and the class are told, and the cover is recorded.
What changes.
The same work, done once, in one place.
Without InstLane
- Cover arranged by phone at 7:30 am
- The same teachers always end up covering
- No record of who covered what
With InstLane
- Cover found in a minute
- Cover spread fairly across staff
- Every cover recorded for payroll and review
For each person.
Everyone sees the part that matters to them, and nothing they should not.
No lesson left without a teacher.
See the covers assigned to you in your timetable.
Pricing for Cover planner
$9 a month as part of Teachers & staff. Pilot institutions use every module free for one term.
Questions, answered.
Does InstLane work for both schools and universities?
Yes. The same system covers early years, primary and secondary (Matric, O and A Levels), intermediate colleges, bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral programmes, plus short courses. A network can run all of them in one workspace.
Which attendance devices can we connect?
ZKTeco terminals that support ADMS (push), Hikvision access controllers that send ISAPI events, and any RFID reader or middleware that can call a web address with a JSON message. We help pilot institutions connect their devices.
What happens if the internet goes down?
Attendance terminals keep punches in their own memory and send them when the connection returns. Teachers can also take the register in the browser as soon as they are back online.
Is our data kept separate from other institutions?
Yes. Every institution has its own database, and every request is checked against the institution it belongs to. You can export your data at any time.
Do parents need to install an app?
No. Parents and students sign in from any phone browser. There is nothing to install.
