Untis alternative: the platform around the timetable
Anyone looking for an Untis alternative rarely means timetable planning itself. Untis creates timetables fully automatically to the school's specifications – no young product measures up to that. What people are usually looking for is everything around it: how does the finished plan reach parents and staff, where does this morning's sick note end up, who keeps the class register? That is exactly where SchuleVernetzt starts. We do not replace timetable planning, we build on it: the plan is carried over from Untis, and around it come the class register, sick notes, parent communication and appointments – in one system, with one role concept and servers in Germany.
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What an Untis alternative is usually meant to do
The plan is carried over
Timetable and substitutions come across from Untis as a DIF export, GPU001.TXT and GPU014.TXT. Classes, subjects, rooms and teacher codes are read along with them – nobody types a finished plan a second time.
Everything around the plan
The class register, sick notes, parent letters and parents' evening bookings all hang off the timetable. They use the same classes and contacts instead of maintaining every list one more time.
One login, one role concept
After signing in, the role decides what is on screen: classes see their day, parents see their child's lessons, teachers see their own duty, the school office sees the full plan.
Hosting in Germany
The school signs a data processing agreement, the data sits on servers in Germany, access and changes are logged, and the school sets deletion periods for its own federal state.
How the start alongside Untis works
Getting started needs no system change: export the plan from Untis, upload it and check the preview, invite staff and parents – after that the day's substitutions simply come along.
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Export the plan
In Untis the timetable is written out as the DIF file GPU001.TXT, the program's documented exchange format. Optionally the teacher file GPU004.TXT comes along, so that the short codes are matched to the right people right away.
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Upload and check
The file is uploaded, and before anything is saved a preview shows what arrives: classes, subjects, rooms, periods. The import detects separators and encoding by itself, CP1252 included. Conspicuous rows are named.
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Invite staff and parents
Teachers get their role, parents get an invitation link. From then on everyone sees their own plan, without anyone creating class lists a second time or typing contacts out of a spreadsheet.
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Take over substitutions daily
The day's substitutions follow as GPU014.TXT or are entered directly. The classes affected, their parents and the teachers involved get a message, and the notice board in the foyer updates along with it.
What Untis is built for – and what is added
What the search for an Untis alternative really means
The timetable stays in Untis
Untis describes itself as the base software that creates timetables fully automatically to the school's specifications; for that, the optimisation places lessons into an empty grid and then improves the plan through targeted swaps. SchuleVernetzt does not reproduce that computation – it is the reason schools use Untis in the first place. Instead we use the interface Untis documents: the finished plan goes out as the DIF file GPU001.TXT, the substitutions go out as GPU014.TXT, and SchuleVernetzt reads both along with classes, subjects, rooms and teacher codes. So planning carries on where the school is used to it – and the plan still becomes visible everywhere it is needed.
What is added around the plan
A timetable alone does not answer the morning. When parents report their child sick, the absence appears in the digital class register straight away and is already marked as excused; nobody enters it a second time. When a lesson is cancelled, the class affected, their parents and the teacher hear about it – not the whole school. Parent letters come back with a read receipt and a structured reply, and the same families book their parents' evening slot through a link. All of it uses the same data and the same role concept: hosting in Germany, a data processing agreement, logged access and deletion periods the school sets for its federal state – once centrally instead of per tool.
When Untis remains the right choice
For creating and optimising the timetable itself. Anyone who has a plan calculated across classes, courses, rooms and time preferences every school year needs exactly the automatic optimisation Untis offers for it, plus modules such as course scheduling or break supervision that build on it. SchuleVernetzt can enter lessons, move them and report double bookings of class, teacher or room, but it does not calculate a plan. And then the honest part: our product is still before launch. There are no reference schools we could point to, and the feature set is smaller than that of a system established for years. Anyone who needs both from one source, with long practice, is better off there.
The switch is not a switch
Untis stays where it is. The school exports the timetable as GPU001.TXT, uploads it and checks the preview – the import detects separators and encoding by itself. After that, staff and parents join through an invitation link, and the day's substitutions follow daily as GPU014.TXT. Anyone who later does want everything in one system enters the plan directly.
Common questions about the Untis alternative
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