Teacher Planning Time and Grading Load

Teacher Planning Time and Grading Load is a TimeCampus concept for department chairs, principals and deans that answers one question: are teachers getting the planning and grading time the schedule promises? The design is meant to combine calendar-derived meeting and coverage-duty load with grading windows from BuildMyIQ, another Burdenoff product, and to show leaders only department-level aggregates, while each teacher's own timeline stays private to them.

In a school, planning periods are easy to promise and easy to erode. A committee meeting lands in a free period, a coverage duty takes another, and grading drifts into the evening, especially in weeks when a stack of essays is due back. Leaders often see this only when morale suffers, and the usual ways of finding out, surveys or individual tracking, are either slow or intrusive. The concept is designed to show the pattern from aggregate data, in keeping with TimeCampus's no-screenshots, no-keystroke-logging design.

The illustrated Planning Time page covers one department for one week and carries a label stating that all data is aggregate, not individual. Four tiles give planning time kept against the time scheduled, the number of meetings that fell in planning periods, the share of grading done after six in the evening with an upward arrow, and submissions awaiting feedback. A stacked bar chart for each weekday splits planning periods into planning, professional learning community (PLC) meetings, coverage duty and grading. A Workload signal card notes that after-hours grading has stayed high for three weeks and that a committee meeting falls in a planning period, and offers two concrete responses: Propose meeting move and Protect grading blocks. All figures are sample data.

The Grading windows from BuildMyIQ table is the cross-product link. For each assessment it lists the sections, the submissions, the date feedback is due and how many protected grading blocks are booked, with badges for an assessment with none booked and one that is auto-graded. BuildMyIQ is designed to supply those windows so that TimeCampus can help each teacher reserve protected grading blocks before the work spills into evenings. The concept builds on TimeCampus work patterns and calendar capture.