Built for every kind of school.
Public or independent, PK or high school, a seven-day drop or a flex mod, semesters or year-round tracks, one campus or several. nOS is set up the way your school already runs, and you describe it in plain English.
Everything a school can be, in one platform.
Nine ways schools differ, and what nOS handles on each. Most schools are a mix of several, and nOS schedules the combination.
Grade levels and kinds of school
PK and TK through grade 12, and any kind of school that runs on a schedule.
- PK, TK and K through 12
- K–8, 6–12 and K–12
- Elementary, with a specials path
- Middle school
- High school
- Public
- Independent
- Charter
- Religious
- International
- Career and technical
- Day and boarding
- Girls, boys or coed
The school day
Whatever shape your days take, including more than one shape in the same school.
- Same every day
- A/B alternating days
- 4×4 block
- Rotating cycles up to 20 days
- Your own day names
- Drop schedules
- Flex mod
- Two-week cycles
- Sunday to Thursday, or Saturday classes
- A day pinned to a weekday
- Divisions with their own days
Periods and bells
Call them periods, blocks, mods or hours. Set them however your bells ring.
- Up to 40 periods a day
- Periods of different lengths
- Double and triple periods
- Lunch waves
- Advisory and flex time
- Zero period and after school
- Late start and early release
- Assembly, half and exam days
- Classes at set clock times
- Pull-outs
- Teacher planning periods
Terms and calendars
Divide the year your way, and let a rule or a request apply to just one part of it.
- Year-long courses
- Semesters
- Trimesters
- Quarters
- Hexters
- Quinmesters
- Up to 12 terms you name
- January and May terms
- Summer school
- Main-lesson blocks
- Year-round tracks
- Rules for one term only
Students and groups
Group students the way your school already does, and keep the right ones together or apart.
- Homerooms
- Teams
- Houses
- Advisory groups
- Tracks and cohorts
- Grade and gender
- Keep students together
- Keep students apart
- IEP, ELL and 504 groupings
- Single-gender sections
- Ranked choices
- Alternates
- Required courses
- Prerequisites and corequisites
- Graduation requirements
- Teacher recommendations
- Approvals
- Waitlists by lottery, grade or first choice
- Seniors first
- Add/drop inbox
- Teachers only, before any requests
Programs and classes
Every kind of class a school runs, from one-section electives to co-taught labs.
- Singletons
- AP and honors
- Labs and linked blocks
- Co-taught sections
- Mixed-grade classes
- Minimum and maximum class sizes
- Classes that meet some days only
- Different periods on different days
- Specialist services and pull-outs
- Rooms by type, like labs and gyms
Teachers and staff
Real contracts and real availability, not an idealized timetable.
- Part-time teachers
- Days and periods off
- Most classes and preps
- Minutes per day or cycle
- Planning periods
- Duty-free lunch
- Duties
- Certifications
- Leave dates with a cover teacher
- Teachers and rooms chosen for you
Size and campuses
From a single small school to several schools on one account.
- Small schools with many singletons
- Divisions in one school
- Several schools on one account
- One login, one bill
- Shared teachers between schools
- Travel time between schools
- Buildings and walk times
You describe your school. nOS builds around it.
There’s no template to squeeze into. Your rules are sentences, and your periods, days, terms and teams are whatever your school already uses.
Questions about your kind of school
Will nOS work for my kind of school?
Very likely. nOS schedules any grade range from PK to 12; same-every-day, A/B, 4×4 block, rotating, drop and flex mod days; semesters, trimesters, quarters, hexters, named terms and year-round tracks; and one school or several on one account. If you’re not sure, book a free demo call and we’ll look at your schedule with you.
What if our schedule is unusual?
Most unusual schedules are a mix of things nOS already handles: a cycle of up to 20 days with your own day names, a Sunday-to-Thursday week, divisions with their own days, late-start and exam bell schedules, classes at set clock times, main-lesson blocks, or terms you name yourself. What’s left is usually a rule, and there are 80 kinds, written as sentences.
We’re a K–12 school. Do we need several accounts?
No. Your lower, middle and upper school can each be a school on one account and one bill. Each builds its own schedule, and a teacher shared between them is checked by clock time across all of them.
Do we pay more for a more complex school?
No. The price is per enrolled student, $9.60 down to $7.00 a year, with every feature included. District and multi-year terms are quoted.
Bring your school, however it runs.
Use the full planner on your own data for 3 days, free.