Connect schools

Connect schools – stronger across sites

On their own, individual schools tackle every shortage in isolation. SchuleVernetzt connects them across sites: connecting schools means a shared cover pool, joint courses and a resource exchange no standalone tool can match – while the school authority sees everything in one live dashboard.

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  • GDPR-compliant
  • Hosted in Germany
  • Free for teachers

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Benefits

Why schools are stronger as a network

Shared cover pool

When a teacher is out, a qualified colleague from a neighbouring school steps in – the cover pool reaches beyond your own walls, across schools.

Offer courses together

Too few sign-ups for that advanced course? Several schools merge small courses into one shared offering – pooled digitally instead of cancelled one by one.

Share material and know-how

Worksheets, exams and project ideas travel school to school through a protected exchange – created once, used many times across the network.

Live dashboard for the authority

The school authority sees absence rates, capacity and demand across every school at a glance – steering instead of collecting spreadsheets.

How it works

How a school network comes about

Four steps turn individual schools into a network: found it, take in neighbouring schools with the joining code, set the releases, and then share cover, courses and material.

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  1. 1

    Found the network

    One school creates the network and gives it a name. It receives a joining code that it passes on to neighbouring schools – by phone, by letter or in the meeting of head teachers.

  2. 2

    Let schools join

    With the code a school requests to join. The membership only becomes active once the founding school confirms – until then no data flows between the two buildings.

  3. 3

    Set releases individually

    Each school decides separately whether it shares the cover pool, joint courses or the material library. The default is private; every release can be revoked at any time without leaving the network.

  4. 4

    Work together

    From now on the pool suggests suitable teachers from neighbouring schools for open cover lessons, shared courses appear in the course pool and material in the network library. The authority sees the figures in the live dashboard.

In comparison

Networked cluster vs. schools going it alone

SchuleVernetzt network
Cover for absencesPool across several schools
Course offeringSmall courses pooled across schools
MaterialShared in a protected network
Overview for the authorityLive dashboard across all sites
Every school on its own
Cover for absencesOnly your own staff, quickly stretched
Course offeringCourses too small are dropped
MaterialEvery school creates it all anew
Overview for the authorityRequests by email and spreadsheet
In detail

What the network actually delivers

Cover pool with subject matching

At most schools an open cover lesson ends at the school gate: if nobody internal is free, all that remains is merging classes or cancelling. In a network the system also looks outside. For every unstaffed lesson it suggests teachers from releasing neighbouring schools who are free at the same time and teach the matching subject – subject matching instead of a round-robin e-mail. A suggestion is only a request: the other school sees it in its list of incoming requests and decides for itself. Only after its approval do the contact details become visible; if it declines, no data is shared. That keeps staffing authority with each school while the pool still reaches beyond its own fence.

Joint courses across school boundaries

An advanced course with four sign-ups does not happen at a single school. Two or three schools together fill it easily – until now that failed on organisation, not on demand. A cross-school course is therefore created once, with subject, teacher and a timetable slot, and then opened to the network. Enrolled are a school's own students and, where the release is active, those of the member schools as well. What matters is what happens next: the course keeps one shared attendance register across all participating schools, with a status per session and the home school visible. So there is one course, one slot and one register instead of three lists that somebody has to reconcile afterwards.

Material library and authority dashboard

What one school works out usually ends up on its own drive. The network library collects teaching material, report card building blocks and parent letter templates in one place, tagged by subject and year group and searchable. Contributions can be marked as helpful, so that useful things move up instead of sinking into a folder. Every upload is private at first and only becomes visible once it is expressly opened to the network and the school has additionally activated the library release. For the school authority a live dashboard brings together absence rates, active classes, student numbers and open cover lessons of the releasing schools – steering on one set of data instead of asking by e-mail.

A network in a few steps

Invite schools, assign roles and subjects, release shared pools and courses – done. Each school keeps its own interface but shares exactly what the network agrees on, with no new hardware and no system change.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions about connecting schools

Yes. Every school stays in charge of its data and decides what to share with the network – cover pool, courses or material. Only what is expressly released is ever shared.

The exchange runs through a closed channel hosted in Germany instead of WhatsApp. Access is role-based; the DPA and data protection package are included.

Yes. Existing plans from Untis or Indiware are imported – each school brings its own timetable, and the network lays cover lessons and courses on top.

Nobody automatically. By default every school shares nothing; only with an express release for the cover pool, courses or library do the respective contents become visible to the confirmed member schools. Each release is set individually and can be revoked at any time. If a school leaves the network, all releases are withdrawn immediately.

For an open cover lesson the system suggests free teachers with the matching subject from releasing neighbouring schools. The requesting school sends a request, the other school sees it under its incoming requests and either approves or declines it. Only after approval do the contact details appear; if it is declined, no data is transmitted.

For the shared pool, the courses and the library the participants come together on the same platform, because that is where releases, registers and figures are kept jointly. Each school brings its existing timetable along: plans from common timetabling programmes can be imported, so no school has to start from scratch.
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