docendo.dk

What It Is

Docendo is a scheduling and teaching administration platform for schools, covering use cases such as flexible timetabling, automatic scheduling, substitute management, work-hour registration, subject allocation, and task overviews. The official website clearly positions it for schools, management teams, teams, teachers, and education professionals, and states that more than 5,000 school leaders and teachers use it in their daily work.

Core Features and Collaboration

The core idea of the product is “managing school planning on one platform.” Flexible timetabling supports drag-and-drop adjustments, timetable changes across different weeks and cycles, automatic work-hour calculation, visibility into staff and classroom availability, and uses “skemaskygger” to help avoid duplicate bookings. Docendo ZEN provides automatic scheduling, generating timetable suggestions based on subject allocation, rules, blocked time slots, parallel classes, and more. The substitute module can handle both sudden and known absences, supports internal staff or external substitute teachers, and can send messages, share substitute notes, and generate payroll reports. Work-hour registration is embedded directly into the timetable, allowing management to compare actual and expected hours in real time.

Pricing, Security, and Integrations

On pricing, the official website emphasizes “one product, one price,” with no expensive add-on modules or courses, but it does not disclose specific pricing; users need to contact the company or book a free demo. The site also mentions a 30-day free trial. For integrations, Docendo supports Aula, and mentions STIL and UVM data imports as well as connections with some payroll systems. In terms of security and compliance, data is stored in the EU, Docendo has undergone an ISAE 3000 audit, and it supports storing work-hour data for 5 years in accordance with EU work-hour registration regulations.

Pros, Cons, and Who It’s For

Its strengths lie in its deep coverage of school-specific scenarios, with tight integration between timetabling, substitute management, work hours, and task allocation. Permissions can also be assigned by role, such as management, teams, and teachers. The drawbacks are that pricing is not transparent, API availability, self-hosting, and payment methods are not specified, and the product is clearly built around the Danish education system and local platforms such as Aula and STIL. It is better suited to Danish public schools, private schools, special schools, and municipal education departments. For Chinese schools, key considerations would include language support, integration with local systems, access stability, and compliance requirements. The official website does not provide information on access from China, and payment methods are also unspecified. Alternatives to consider include local academic administration systems, DingTalk/WeCom education solutions, or ClassIn.