Know where every class has reached. Long before the exam tells you.
Lesson plan and syllabus tracking software for Indian schools. Build each subject's chapters and topics once, set target dates class by class, and let teachers log what they taught from their timetable in the staff app. The principal sees which classes are on track, slipping or behind while there is still time to catch up.
Lesson plan software for schools, and the question September always asks
It is the last week of September at a CBSE school in Kanpur, and the half-yearly exams begin on Monday. The academic coordinator has the split-up syllabus every department submitted in April, printed and pinned on the staffroom notice board, and a register where teachers were meant to note what they taught each day. Most of its columns stop in July. The Class 9 Science teacher went on leave in August, two substitutes took her periods, and nobody wrote down which chapters they managed. When the principal asks whether 9-B has finished Gravitation, the coordinator messages three teachers on WhatsApp and waits.
The answer arrives later, and not from a teacher. It arrives in the answer sheets, when half of 9-B leaves the same two questions blank because the chapter was never taught in their section. At the parent-teacher meeting a father says it plainly: this chapter was not taught at all. The school books extra classes in the winter break, and the Science teacher is blamed for a gap that opened while she was away. The costliest part never shows on any report: every class that fell behind this year was behind for weeks before anyone could see it, and those were exactly the weeks in which it could have caught up.
If this sounds like your September, the problem is not effort. A syllabus plan on paper can tell you what should have happened. It cannot tell you what did. Inkwelly Lesson Plans keeps both side by side for every class, so a gap shows up in the week it opens, not in the answer sheets.
What Inkwelly Lesson Plans actually replaces
Lesson Plans covers the academic year from the syllabus outwards: the chapters and topics of every subject in every class, the date by which each topic should be done, the record of what each teacher actually taught in each period, and the view that compares the two. It replaces the split-up syllabus that lives in a spiral file, the teacher's diary nobody reads, the monthly syllabus-completion sheet the coordinator types up before every exam, and the WhatsApp question "how much is done?" that nobody answers the same way twice.
It is deliberately not a form for writing out every lesson with objectives, activities and assessment boxes. Teachers already lose enough evenings to that. Here the syllabus and its target dates are the plan, and a short log against each timetable period is the evidence. It builds on the classes, subjects, teaching groups and timetable you already keep in Academics, so nothing is set up twice.
What the staffroom stops doing
- Pinning a printed split-up syllabus to the notice board in April and never checking it against a classroom again
- Keeping a teacher's diary of daily topics that nobody opens until an inspection is announced
- Asking five teachers on WhatsApp how far their sections have reached before every exam
- Typing a monthly syllabus-completion report in Excel from percentages teachers estimate from memory
- Discovering in the answer sheets that one section never covered a chapter the others finished
- Losing track of what a substitute taught while the regular teacher was on leave
- Retyping the same chapter list for every section, and again every April for the new session
- Guessing whether a class is two days or two weeks behind its plan
- Hearing at the parent-teacher meeting that a chapter was skipped, with no record to check
- Running remedial classes in February for gaps that quietly opened in August
The syllabus tracking software screens your school will use
This is not a syllabus PDF uploaded to a portal. It is a working set of screens: the academic coordinator uses them to build and pace the syllabus, every subject teacher uses them at the end of each period, and the principal opens them whenever a question about the syllabus comes up. Planning and monitoring happen on the web portal, in English and Hindi. Everyday logging lives in the Inkwelly staff app, where principals and coordinators also get the coverage, curriculum and pacing screens. Every person sees only what their role allows, and nothing below is a roadmap item: each screen exists in Inkwelly today.
Everything the syllabus runs on
Curriculum builder
Chapters and topics for each subject in each class, with periods per topic, planned periods and exam weightage per chapter, optional topics and drag-to-reorder. Names can carry a Hindi translation alongside the English.
Excel import and ChatGPT drafts
Upload an Excel or CSV file built from the template, check the preview and fix any row flagged with a reason. Or copy a ready-made prompt into ChatGPT and paste its answer back.
Pacing planner
Give every topic a term, a start date, a target date and its periods, class by class. A planned coverage curve shows what should be done by today, and one class's plan clones to its parallel sections.
Copy forward each April
Bring last session's curricula into the new session in one step, for the whole school or one subject or class at a time. Anything that already exists is skipped, and the copies arrive as drafts for the department to check.
Two-tap period log
In the staff app, a finished period opens with Finished what I planned selected and the next planned topic ticked. Save, and the class's coverage moves. A part-taught period, or a class that didn't happen, takes one more tap.
Class notes with AI formatting
An optional formatted note for each period, with bold, lists and highlights. On Premium, one tap tidies it, turns it into points, shortens it or splits it into done and next, without adding a single fact the teacher did not write.
Teaching journal
Every scheduled period of the last month with its log, or the fact that it has none. Holidays, cancelled periods and periods handed to a substitute owe nothing, and missed periods still inside the back-date limit are counted as fixable.
Coverage heatmap
A grade-by-subject grid where each cell is one teaching group, coloured green, amber or red against its target dates, with covered and expected-by-today side by side. Click a cell for its chapter bars and latest teaching logs.
Behind-schedule list
The classes furthest behind their plan, with teaching days behind and percent covered, beside headline numbers for overall coverage, classes on track, periods logged today and the average days behind.
Chapter view with audit trail
Each chapter shows progress class by class, which topics are done in how many classes, topics past their target date, and the teaching log behind it all, with back-dated entries, direct marks and substitutes clearly labelled.
Student syllabus and study notes
When you switch it on, students see each subject's chapters, what the class has covered and when topics were taught, plus the study notes and videos teachers publish. Pace and targets are never shown.
AI Connect
On Premium, ask ChatGPT or Claude which classes are behind, which topics are overdue or which teachers haven't logged this week. Teachers can log their own periods through it too, and bigger changes wait for approval.
Curriculum planning software that starts from your board's syllabus
Every board hands schools a syllabus, and every school turns it into its own teaching order. A CBSE school follows the NCERT books chapter by chapter, an ICSE school in Dehradun arranges the Council's syllabus its own way, and a UP Board school in Gorakhpur plans around the state's prescribed books. There is no locked board syllabus in Inkwelly that you are forced to live with. You build the curriculum your teachers actually follow, once per subject and class, and everything else in the module hangs off it: the pacing, the teaching logs, the coverage figures and what students see.
Chapters, topics and periods, once per subject and class
A curriculum belongs to one subject in one class for the session, say Mathematics for Class 8, and every section of Class 8 shares it. Add chapters in teaching order, then the topics inside each, with the periods each topic needs. A chapter can carry its planned periods and its weightage in the exam, a topic can be marked optional for enrichment, and both can be dragged into a new order at any time. Where your school works in more than one language, chapter and topic names take a Hindi translation next to the English. A topic is the smallest thing a teacher logs as taught, so it pays to keep topics about a period or two long.
Import from Excel, or let ChatGPT draft it
Nobody should type forty chapters by hand. Download the template, fill one row per topic with its chapter name and periods, and upload it as Excel or CSV. The preview shows how many chapters and topics will be added and lists any row that needs fixing, with the reason, before anything is saved. There is a faster route too: copy the ready-made prompt from the import screen, with your subject and class already filled in, paste it into ChatGPT and paste the answer back. An import replaces the chapter list with the file, while topics already taught keep their teaching record. A finished curriculum can be exported and imported into another school.
Next April, copy forward instead of starting over
When the new session opens in April, copy last year's curricula forward in one step, for the whole school or one subject or class at a time. Chapters, topics, periods, weightage and translations come across, and any subject and class that already has a curriculum in the new session is skipped rather than overwritten. The copies arrive as drafts, so students don't see them until the department has checked them against this year's textbook edition and marked them active. Last year's curricula, teaching logs and coverage stay with last year's session, so the principal can still look back at how far each class got.
Study notes students can revise from
Each topic can carry a study note written on the web, with headings, lists, highlights, images from your school's media library and YouTube videos. A topic can also lead with a featured image or video, so a diagram-heavy topic opens on the diagram. Notes stay in draft until someone publishes them, and students never see a draft. Teachers can read, write and publish notes from the staff app for the topics they teach, and set the featured image or video from their phone. A note that already holds images or video is edited on the web, so nothing gets lost.
The split-up syllabus, as a pacing plan per class
Most schools already make a split-up syllabus in April: which chapters go in April and May, which before the half-yearly exams, which before the pre-boards. The trouble is that it is written once per subject, and every section is assumed to move at the same speed. Inkwelly turns the split-up into a pacing plan for each class. Every topic gets a target date, and from those dates the module works out what share of the syllabus each class should have covered by any given day. That expected figure, set against what has actually been taught, is what turns a class green, amber or red.
Target dates, topic by topic
Pick a class, and its whole curriculum opens as a table: every topic with its term, a start date, a target date and its periods. Fill in the target dates for a term in one sitting; the screen keeps count of unsaved changes until you save. Beside the table, a planned coverage curve shows how the syllabus is meant to build up across the year and what share should be done by today. Where a curriculum-wide default date exists for a topic, the class shows it with a Default label until you give that class a date of its own.
Clone one section's plan to the others
Parallel sections usually follow the same plan, so there is no reason to type it four times. Once 8-A's pacing is right, clone it to 8-B, 8-C and 8-D in one step. Only classes that share the same subject and grade, and therefore the same curriculum, are offered as targets, so a Science plan can never land on a Maths class. After cloning, each section keeps its own copy. If 8-C loses a week to an annual function rehearsal, its dates can move without touching the other three, and its colour on the dashboard is judged against its own plan.
How behind is worked out
Coverage is weighted by periods, so finishing a six-period chapter counts for more than a one-period topic. A topic taught fully counts in full, a topic taught partly counts for its share, and the class's percentage is the total across the syllabus. The expected figure comes from the target dates: a topic whose date has passed should be complete, and a topic in progress should be done in proportion to the teaching days used. Sundays, and the holidays and off days on your school calendar, don't count as teaching days. The gap between the two figures sets the colour. By default a class stays green up to a 10 percent gap, turns amber up to 25 percent and red beyond that, and each school can set its own thresholds.
- Covered: the share of the syllabus taught, weighted by periods
- Expected by today: the share the target dates say should be done
- Gap: how far covered trails expected, in percentage points
- Days behind: teaching days since the work already done fell due
- Last taught: the latest date the class logged a topic
Paper split-up and WhatsApp vs Inkwelly Lesson Plans
A teacher lesson plan app that works from the timetable
A teaching log only survives if it takes less time than the walk to the next classroom. That is why Inkwelly doesn't ask teachers to fill a daily form. The log hangs off the period itself: the staff app already knows each teacher's timetable for the day, including extra classes and periods taken as a substitute, so every finished subject period has a place to record what happened. The staff app counts the periods that have ended without a log and shows that number on its Log Coverage quick action, so nothing depends on a teacher remembering at three in the afternoon.
Two taps from the period
A teacher taps a finished period on the home screen's day strip, the Today screen, the timetable or the teaching journal. The log page opens with Finished what I planned already selected and the next topic from the class's plan already ticked, chosen from the topics the class hasn't completed, earliest target date first. If that is what happened, the teacher taps Save and walks to the next class. The class's coverage, the teacher's journal and the principal's dashboard all update with that one save. Opening the same period again shows the log for editing, and saving replaces it rather than adding a second entry.
When the period doesn't go to plan
Real periods run short. Got part of the way asks how much of the plan was done, with quick 25, 50 and 75 percent buttons and a slider for anything in between. Class didn't happen records the period as not held, with an optional reason such as an assembly or a surprise test, and leaves coverage untouched. The topic picker opens chapter by chapter, shows how far the class has got with each topic, and lets the teacher pick several topics or reach back to an earlier chapter for revision. A homework already set for the class can be linked to the log in the same step.
Substitutes and cancelled periods
When a teacher is on leave and a colleague takes the period, the substitute sees it in their own staff app and logs it like any other period. The log records whose class was being covered, so the chapter's teaching log shows the substitute's name against the regular teacher's class, and the class's coverage keeps moving while its teacher is away. A period cancelled on the timetable, or handed to a substitute, never counts as missed for the regular teacher, and a substitute's log against it counts as covered. That is how August's leave stops turning into October's mystery chapter.
Honest back-dating and a real undo
Nobody can log a period in the future. A missed log can be filled in later, but only within the school's back-date limit: seven days unless you change it, anywhere from zero to ninety. Every back-dated log is labelled on the principal's chapter view, so a week of entries typed on a Saturday night looks exactly like what it is. Mistakes are easy to reverse. The teacher who saved a log can undo it for twelve hours by default, and the school can stretch that window to as long as seven days. Undoing takes the log out of coverage straight away. Only the teacher who wrote a log can undo it, and nobody can log a period on someone else's behalf, whether from the office, the principal's login or an AI assistant.
Mark a topic covered without a period
Some teaching doesn't sit in a timetable slot: a revision week, a doubt-clearing session after school, or chapters finished before your school started using Inkwelly. On the chapter screen of their own class, a teacher taps a topic to mark it covered, or marks a whole chapter covered in one go. These direct marks count towards coverage but stay apart from period logs. They never show as taught today to students, never add to the logged-today count on the dashboard, and appear in the chapter's teaching log labelled as marked covered. A mark can be cleared, and any coverage from logged periods stays.
The class note, tidied by AI if you want
Under the topics sits an optional class note, with bold, italics, lists and highlight colours: which questions were done in class, who needs a word, what to pick up next period. On the Premium plan, a Format button offers four styles. Tidy up fixes spelling and grammar and keeps the teacher's words. Bullet points lays the note out one point per line. Shorten brings it down to three lines. Done and next splits it into what was covered and what comes next. The AI only reshapes what the teacher wrote: it never adds a page number, a mark, a date or a name, a note in Devanagari or Hinglish stays that way, and one tap undoes the change.
See a teacher log a period in two taps
Bring one subject's split-up syllabus and a week of your timetable. In a live demo we'll import the chapters, set target dates for two sections, log a few periods from the staff app and show the dashboard reacting, on screen, in front of you.
The teaching journal: every period, logged or not
A missed log is the absence of a record, which is exactly why paper diaries never show it. Inkwelly's teaching journal rebuilds each teacher's days from the timetable itself: every subject period they were scheduled to take, with its log, or with the plain fact that it has none. It opens on the last 30 days, can page back as far as the start of the session, and filters to one class or to the periods not yet logged. Teachers use it to answer "did I log Monday?" at a glance, and to fix a gap while it is still inside the back-date limit.
What counts as missed, and what doesn't
The journal is strict about what a teacher actually owed. A staff holiday on the school calendar owes nothing, even if the weekly timetable has periods that day. A period cancelled on the timetable, or given to a substitute, is shown with its reason but never counted. Today's periods that haven't finished yet are marked pending rather than missed, because a morning is not a miss. A period logged by a substitute counts as covered for the regular teacher. What remains, subject periods that were due and have no log, is the honest missed count, and it stays the same whether the teacher filters to one class or looks at all of them.
Fix last week before the window closes
At the top of the journal, a summary shows how many periods were logged out of those owed, how many topics were covered, how many periods were missed and the run of clean days without a missed log. A strip of coloured days makes a gap stand out at a glance. When missed periods are still inside the back-date limit, the journal says how many are still fixable and filters straight to them, so a forgotten Tuesday can be put right from the same screen, with the period already chosen, before it locks for good.
A syllabus coverage tracker for the principal's office
The principal's question is rarely about one period. It is about the school: will Class 10 finish the syllabus before the pre-boards, which sections are slipping, and which teachers need support now rather than in March? The Syllabus Coverage dashboard answers from the logs themselves, updated with every period a teacher saves. It opens on the headline numbers, gives the classes furthest behind a list of their own, and lays every class and subject out on one grid, with filters for grade and subject when the school is large. Nobody compiles it, and nobody can quietly round it up.
A grade-by-subject heatmap
The heatmap has a row for each subject and a column for each grade. Every teaching group gets its own cell, so Class 8 Science shows 8-A, 8-B and 8-C separately, with any elective group beside them. Each cell shows the share covered with a marker for where the class should be by today, and takes its colour from the gap. Hover over a cell to see the teacher, topics done out of the total and days behind. Click it, and a panel opens with the class's chapters as planned-against-actual bars and its last eight teaching logs, class notes included.
Headline numbers and the behind-schedule list
Above the grid sit the numbers a principal can read out in a staff meeting: overall coverage across classes, how many classes are on track against how many are slipping or behind, how many periods were logged today, and the average teaching days behind among classes that are late. Beside the grid, a behind-schedule list names up to eight classes furthest behind, each with its subject, grade, teacher, percent covered and days behind. One click on any of them opens the same class panel, so the conversation with the teacher starts from facts rather than impressions.
Chapter by chapter, class by class
The curriculum library shows each subject's progress across every class teaching it, as covered against planned by today, and inside a curriculum every chapter shows how many classes have finished it. Open a chapter to see progress by class, each topic's status as done in so many of so many classes, topics past their target date flagged as overdue, and the teaching log of what teachers recorded for that chapter, newest first. Back-dated entries, direct marks and substitute periods are labelled, so a principal checking before an inspection sees how each topic came to be marked done. A topic only reads as done when every class teaching it has finished it.
The same view on the principal's phone
Principals and coordinators who carry the Inkwelly staff app get a Lesson Plans hub there too, with coverage, curriculum, pacing and settings, each shown only if their role allows it. They can check the headline numbers, the classes that need attention and coverage subject by subject in a corridor, open a class to see its chapters, add or rename a chapter, adjust a class's target dates or clone a plan between sections without walking back to a desk. Importing from Excel, copying curricula forward and writing study notes with images or video stay on the web portal, where there is room for them.
Inkwelly Lesson Plans vs a standalone lesson plan app
What students and parents see
Families rarely need the school's pacing plan, and they should never see a teacher being marked behind. What they want to know is simpler: what was taught today, and how far the class has got before the exam. Inkwelly gives them exactly that in the student app families use for their child, and nothing more. The progress they see is neutral: how much has been covered, which chapters are finished and when each topic was taught. Target dates, gaps, colours and days behind stay inside the school. Lesson Plans records what was taught, not how well it was learnt; marks and report cards stay in Examinations.
Today's periods, marked taught
On the student app's Today screen, each finished period shows whether it was taught. Once the teacher logs it, the period is marked taught and the topics covered appear underneath, up to six of them. A period the teacher recorded as not held never shows as taught, and a topic marked covered outside the timetable never pretends to be today's lesson. A parent looking at the app over dinner can ask a specific question, such as what the class did with Polynomials today, instead of the usual "what happened in school today?" that gets a one-word answer.
The syllabus journey, when you switch it on
The Syllabus view stays off until the school turns it on in Lesson Plan settings. Once it is on, each subject a student is enrolled in shows as a journey: chapters in order, how much of each the class has covered, topics with the date they were taught, and optional topics labelled. A topic with a published study note opens to it, featured image or video first. A For this chapter section lists the homework, class tests and material filed under that chapter, with the child's own status, such as handed in or scored, never anyone else's. Only curricula marked active appear, and a student sees only the subjects they actually take.
Homework, class tests and quizzes, filed by chapter
Coverage is half the story. The other half is what the class was given to practise. In Inkwelly, a teacher setting homework or a class test picks the chapters it covers, one or several, and the topics inside them if they want to be precise, straight from the class's own curriculum, so a Science chapter can never land on a Maths test. Quizzes on the Premium plan are tagged the same way. On the teacher's chapter screen in the staff app, everything given to that class for that chapter sits on one timeline under the topic checklist, newest first, next to the chapter's target date: homework with how many students handed it in, class tests with how many were graded, and study material with how many students opened it.
Ask ChatGPT or Claude where the syllabus stands
Schools on the Premium plan can connect Lesson Plans to ChatGPT or Claude through AI Connect, using a key your school admin issues. A principal can then ask in plain English or Hinglish: which classes are behind in Class 9, which topics are overdue across the school, what was taught in 10-B yesterday, which teachers haven't logged a period this week, or what the split-up says for next month. The assistant reads the same coverage, pacing and teaching logs as the dashboard, and says so when a class has no target dates rather than calling it on track.
A key is read-only unless your admin also allows it to make changes. With changes allowed, a teacher can log a period or mark a topic covered through the assistant, always as themselves and only for their own periods and classes. Anything bigger, such as creating, replacing or deleting a curriculum, setting, clearing or cloning target dates, undoing a log or clearing a mark, shows a preview first and waits for the person to approve it.
Built for everyone who touches the syllabus
A syllabus passes through more hands than a timetable does. The coordinator builds it and sets the pace, the head of department watches the subject across sections, the subject teacher delivers it period by period, the principal answers for it before every exam, and families ask about it at every parent-teacher meeting. In most schools each of them keeps a different version of the truth. In Inkwelly they all look at the same curriculum and the same logs, each from their own screen, and each person sees only what their role allows.
For the principal and academic coordinator
Your week starts with the Syllabus Coverage dashboard: overall coverage, which classes are slipping, and the classes furthest behind with their days behind. Before the half-yearly exams you stop asking teachers for completion percentages, because the heatmap already has them for every class and subject. When a section falls behind, you open its panel, read the last few class notes and see which chapter is dragging before you speak to the teacher. You also decide the colour thresholds, the back-date limit and the undo window for your school, and whether students see the syllabus in their app.
For the subject teacher
Your record keeps itself. After each period, two taps log what you taught, with the next topic from your plan already picked. The Log Coverage quick action shows how many finished periods still need a log, and the teaching journal shows your week at a glance, with anything still fixable. Your own Syllabus Coverage screen shows each of your classes chapter by chapter, with how far you are expected to be by today, so a review holds no surprises. When a revision class covers a topic, you mark it covered from the chapter screen. And when you are on leave, your substitute's periods are recorded against your class instead of vanishing.
For the vice principal and heads of department
The built-in vice principal role can build, edit and import curricula, set and clone pacing and open the coverage dashboard, while the school's Lesson Plan settings stay with the principal. A head of department or a primary-wing coordinator can be given the same rights through a custom role that you name yourself. Chapter pages show a subject across all its sections, so an HOD can see that 9-A and 9-B have finished Gravitation while 9-C is still on its second topic, and open 9-C's panel to find out why before it becomes an exam-week problem.
For the school owner and management
Owners rarely have time to read teaching logs, and they shouldn't need to. What they need is one honest figure before each exam and a short list of where it is weak. The coverage dashboard gives both, and on Premium an owner can simply ask ChatGPT or Claude through AI Connect which classes are behind and by how much. Because every figure comes from periods logged against target dates, not from a percentage someone typed into a report, the numbers hold up when parents, the management committee or an inspection ask how the syllabus was covered.
Who can see and change what
Lesson Plans has separate permissions for viewing curricula and pacing, managing curricula, importing them, setting pacing, opening the coverage dashboard and changing settings, so a school can match access to its own hierarchy. Out of the box the principal holds all of them, the vice principal everything except settings, and a teacher can view curricula and pacing. Logging is different. It needs no extra permission, because a teacher can only ever log periods on their own timetable, or ones they took as a substitute on that date, and can only mark topics covered for classes they are assigned to teach. Only the teacher who saved a log can undo it. Study notes reach students only after someone publishes them, and families never see anything about pace.
Switching from a register, Excel or your current software
Most schools reading this already keep a syllabus somewhere: a split-up in Word, a coordinator's Excel sheet, or the syllabus screen of another ERP that nobody updates. That is enough to start. Put each subject's chapters and topics into the Excel template, or let ChatGPT draft them with the ready-made prompt and correct what it gets wrong, then import one subject and class at a time, with a preview before anything is saved. If you switch in the middle of a session, there is no need to recreate months of logs: teachers mark the chapters they have already finished as covered from their chapter screen, and daily logging starts with the next period.
Migration, training and setup cost ₹0, and extracting your data from your current system, or from Excel if the vendor won't cooperate, is on us. Go-live can be the next working day, with older records moving across on their own track afterwards. Still comparing tools? Book a demo and run your own checks on Inkwelly.
“A split-up syllabus tells you what should have happened. A teaching log tells you what did. Everything worth knowing sits in the gap between them.”
What's included with Lesson Plans
- Curricula per subject and class for each session, with chapters, topics, periods, weightage and optional topics
- Chapter and topic names with Hindi translations, drag-to-reorder, and draft, active or archived status
- Excel or CSV import with a template and preview, a ready-made ChatGPT prompt, and curriculum export
- Copy forward of last session's curricula into the new session, skipping any that already exist
- A pacing planner per class with terms, target dates, a planned coverage curve and cloning across sections
- Coverage weighted by periods, with expected progress that skips Sundays and school-calendar holidays
- Two-tap period logging in the staff app, with part-taught, not-held, a topic picker and a homework link
- Substitute logging, a back-date limit, labelled back-dated entries and an undo window your school sets
- Direct topic and chapter marks for revision or earlier teaching, kept apart from period logs
- A teaching journal with missed, pending and still-fixable periods and a clean-day streak
- A coverage dashboard with a grade-by-subject heatmap, class panels, chapter views and a behind-schedule list
- Topic study notes with images and video, and an optional student syllabus view showing neutral progress
Find out which class is behind before the exam does
Bring one subject's split-up syllabus, a week of your timetable and the question you ask before every half-yearly exam. We'll show how each of your classes would read on Inkwelly's coverage dashboard, in a live demo on your own classes.
Frequently asked
14 questionsWhich Inkwelly plan includes Lesson Plans, and what does it cost?
Lesson Plans is part of the Standard plan at ₹99 per student per year, and it is also included in Premium at ₹199 per student per year. It isn't part of Lite. Inkwelly's plans run from ₹49 to ₹199 per student per year, flat at any school size, with no enrolment slabs and no per-module upsell, and each plan includes everything in the plan below it. The AI formatting for class notes, and asking ChatGPT or Claude about coverage through AI Connect, come with the AI features in Premium.
We keep the split-up syllabus in a register or Excel today. How hard is it to switch?
Not hard. Fill the Excel template with each subject's chapters and topics, or let ChatGPT draft them with the ready-made prompt on the import screen, then import one subject and class at a time after checking the preview. Switching mid-session doesn't mean recreating months of logs: teachers mark the chapters they have already finished as covered, and logging starts from the next period. Migration, training and setup cost ₹0, and extracting your data from your current system, or from Excel if the vendor won't cooperate, is on us. Go-live can be the next working day, and older records move across on their own track afterwards. You can also start with a 90-day paid pilot on your real data; if it isn't working at day 90, you get a pro-rata refund and your data back in standard formats.
Who in the school can see and change what?
Access follows roles. By default the principal can do everything, including the colour thresholds, back-date limit and undo window; the vice principal can build and import curricula, set and clone pacing and open the coverage dashboard; and teachers can view curricula and pacing. An HOD or academic coordinator can be given these rights through a custom role. Logging needs no extra permission, because teachers can only log periods on their own timetable or ones they took as a substitute, can only mark topics covered for their own classes, and can only undo their own logs. Students and parents see neutral progress, never pace.
Does Lesson Plans work on the mobile app or only on the web?
Both, split by job. Teachers log periods, check their teaching journal, mark topics covered and write study notes in the Inkwelly staff app; there is no period logging on the web. Principals and coordinators with access also get the coverage dashboard, curriculum, pacing and settings in the staff app. Importing from Excel, copying curricula into a new session and writing study notes with images or video happen on the web portal, which also has the full dashboard and chapter views. Students and parents see taught periods and, if you switch it on, the syllabus in the student app.
Is Lesson Plans available in Hindi?
The web screens for Lesson Plans, from the curriculum builder to the coverage dashboard and settings, are available in English and Hindi. Chapter and topic names can carry a Hindi translation next to the English, which the web shows in Hindi, and names typed in Hindi appear as typed everywhere. The lesson plan screens in the staff app and the student app are in English today. The AI note formatting keeps a note in the language it was written in, so Devanagari stays Devanagari and Hinglish stays Hinglish.
Is this a template for writing daily lesson plans?
No, and that is deliberate. Lesson Plans doesn't ask teachers to fill objectives, activities and assessment boxes for every lesson, and there is no sign-off step for written plans. The plan is the syllabus itself, chapters and topics with target dates for each class, and the record is a short log against each timetable period with an optional class note. Together they tell a principal what a stack of written plans never could: which classes are actually on schedule, and which are not.
Won't teachers see this as one more register to fill?
The log is built to take less time than the walk to the next classroom. A finished period opens with the usual outcome and the next planned topic already selected, so most logs are two taps. The staff app counts the periods still waiting for a log, the journal shows what is still fixable, and a missed day can be filled in later within the back-date limit. We do a full day of on-site training at go-live and stay on WhatsApp through the first month. If a teacher is still struggling after that, we come back at no cost.
Can a teacher simply mark everything covered to look good?
Not without it showing. A period log can only be written for a period on the teacher's own timetable, never for a future date, and only within the back-date limit your school sets, seven days by default. Back-dated logs are labelled on the principal's chapter view. Topics marked covered without a period are labelled as direct marks in the chapter's teaching log, never count as taught today for students and never add to the dashboard's logged-today count. The teaching journal also shows every period that was due and never logged.
What happens when a substitute takes the class, or the period is cancelled?
The substitute sees the period in their own staff app and logs it; the log records whose class they were covering, and the chapter's teaching log shows it. For the regular teacher, a period handed to a substitute or cancelled on the timetable is never counted as missed, and a substitute's log against it counts as covered. Staff holidays on the school calendar owe nothing either, and school holidays don't count as teaching days when expected progress and days behind are worked out.
Can parents see how far the syllabus has reached?
Yes, in two ways. The student app's Today screen marks each finished period as taught, with the topics covered, as soon as the teacher logs it. And if you switch on the Syllabus view in Lesson Plan settings, students see each subject's chapters, what the class has covered, when topics were taught, the study notes teachers publish, and the homework and tests filed under each chapter with the child's own status. Families never see target dates, gaps or days behind.
Does it work for electives and split groups, not just sections?
Yes. Coverage is tracked for each teaching group, which Inkwelly calls a teaching batch: a section such as 8-A, or a group drawn from several sections, such as the Class 11 students taking Biology. The curriculum is shared by every group of that subject and class, but each group has its own pacing, its own logs and its own percentage, so an elective group that meets fewer times a week is judged against its own plan.
What does the AI do, and could it make up what was taught?
It only formats. On the Premium plan, the Format button on a class note offers four styles: tidy up, bullet points, shorten, and done and next. It works only on what the teacher wrote: it never adds a fact, a number, a date or a student's name, and an empty note is never filled in. Nothing is saved until the teacher saves the log, and one tap undoes the formatting. Your school can switch the feature off, and if AI isn't available for a teacher's plan or role, the app says so and hides the button.
Can we ask ChatGPT or Claude which classes are behind?
Yes, on the Premium plan, through AI Connect with a key your school admin issues. The assistant can tell you which classes or teachers are behind, which topics are overdue, what was taught on a given day, which teachers haven't logged this week and what is planned for the coming weeks, from the same data as the dashboard. A key is read-only unless your admin allows changes. With changes allowed, a teacher can log their own periods or mark topics covered, and bigger changes, such as replacing a curriculum or rewriting target dates, show a preview and wait for approval first.
Do we have to rebuild the syllabus every April?
No. Copy last session's curricula into the new session in one step, for the whole school or one subject or class at a time; anything already set up in the new session is skipped. The copies arrive as drafts, so students don't see them until you mark them active after checking them against this year's textbooks. Target dates are set per class each session, and cloning one section's plan to its parallel sections keeps that quick.
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