docendo.no

What It Is

Docendo is a timetable and substitution management system from Docendo ApS for school environments. The Norwegian version of the website positions it as a “Timeplanlegger” built for the ever-changing day-to-day reality of schools. It is designed for school leaders, academic scheduling staff, teachers, students, and parents, with the core goal of keeping courses, teachers, classrooms, teaching hours, and temporary changes in sync.

Core Features and Collaboration

The product’s standout capability is flexible scheduling: it supports drag-and-drop adjustments, allows timetable changes by individual week, single day, or specific cycle, and is not constrained by fixed lesson lengths. The system automatically calculates teaching hours for classes and teachers, while total subject hours, remaining hours, and hours for specific periods update in real time as changes are made. During scheduling, “shadow markers” indicate when teachers, classrooms, or education staff already have commitments, helping avoid conflicts. Docendo also supports importing class subjects and planned teaching hours, annual overviews, automatic deduction of vacations and public holidays, theme day/theme week displays, weekly plans, and course notes. Teachers and teams can participate in planning, and teachers can enter changes directly into the plan.

Integrations, Deployment, and Security

In terms of integrations, the main content explicitly mentions that timetables/calendars can integrate with Outlook, Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, and iCal. It also supports Feide login, mobile timetable viewing, and information screen displays. The product is accessible via web login and offers a trial, so it can generally be regarded as a cloud-based SaaS product; no self-hosting information was found. Details on data security, compliance certifications, backups, permission granularity, and open APIs are not disclosed in the crawled content.

Pricing and Service

The site includes a pricing entry point, states that a 30-day free trial is available, and mentions that the school’s current timetable can be imported for free. User feedback describes the pricing as competitive and support as responsive, but the main content does not publicly provide specific plans, prices, payment methods, or school-size limitations. Buyers should therefore contact sales for confirmation before procurement.

Pros, Cons, and Best Fit

The strengths are its vertical focus on school timetabling, flexible timetable adjustments, practical teaching-hour statistics and conflict alerts, and the ability to centralize timetables, weekly plans, and parent/student-facing displays in one place. The drawbacks are the limited public information on commercial terms and security, plus the fact that the product language, login system, and case references are clearly oriented toward Nordic schools. It is best suited to small and mid-sized schools or education groups that frequently need timetable changes, substitutions, and detailed teaching-hour accounting.

Access from China and Alternatives

Mainland China access, payment options, and network stability are not addressed in the main content, so they should be considered unknown. For use by schools in China, additional factors include Chinese localization, compatibility with domestic calendars and unified identity systems, data compliance, and after-sales support across time zones. Alternatives to compare include Untis, PowerSchool, MySchool, as well as local education management systems such as DingTalk/WeCom education apps, seewo, and Xiaobao.