Teacher planner

This sheet is titled Weekly hourly planner, Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 16:00. It is one sheet of A4 in landscape, five columns wide, with time rows down the left. Like everything in the Daybook range it is drawn by the page itself: a geometry engine lays the grid out to the paper and writes the PDF byte by byte in the browser, so a change to any control redraws the sheet and rewrites the file at once.

The time rows

The first row is 08:00, the last row is 16:00, and the count of rows is nine. The range is inclusive at both ends. A sheet that runs to 16:00 has a 16:00 row on it, ruled and empty and ready to be written in, rather than a grid that stops at the hour before and calls the job done. That sounds too obvious to state until it is got wrong, at which point the last period of the day has nowhere to live.

anything from 00:00 to 23:00

Five days means the working week

A five day sheet is Monday to Friday. It is Monday to Friday whatever the week start happens to be set to, because five named columns beginning on a Sunday would not be a working week: it would be a working week with two days missing and two days added. For that reason the five day sheets carry no week start control at all. A control the drawing ignores is a control that lies, and leaving it off the page is more honest than leaving it there looking adjustable. Readers who want the weekend in front of them have the seven column sheet instead, where the setting means something.

What is on the paper

The day labels are set to full, so each column is headed with the whole name. As drawn, the sheet reports 19 rules and 16 words of set type, with no boxes and no squares in it. The grid is made of lines, and whatever lands between them belongs to the person holding the pen. The finished PDF is 2,784 bytes.

Black only

Colour coding a class schedule is a common enough habit and it survives this sheet perfectly well, provided the colour goes on after the printing rather than before. Everything drawn here prints in black. A form whose meaning is carried by colour arrives out of a mono printer with the meaning gone, and a staffroom printer is very often mono. Black rules on white paper come off every machine alike, and a highlighter finishes the job in a second.

Written in the browser

There is no upload step, no account, and no copy of the sheet kept anywhere. The engine that draws the preview is the same engine that writes the file, so the sheet on screen and the sheet in the PDF are one drawing rather than two that might drift apart. A second copy of a file is a copy that can go stale, so there is not one.

The range around it

The site holds 25 sheets, and across all of them the drawing amounts to 1,119 rules, 234 boxes and 93 time slots. Dated year grids and month grids are not among them: a month grid is a calendar, and calendars are answered elsewhere rather than half answered here.