Whose week is your timetable actually optimising?
aSc is mature software, in Hebrew, approved by the Ministry of Education through תשפ״ח, with a free trial that does almost everything the paid version does. For many schools it is the obvious choice, and we would not talk you out of it lightly. Schedula works differently in three places: what happens when a week without free periods is impossible, how teacher requests are shared out, and the morning after the timetable is built.
There are almost 50 predefined language mutations of ASC Timetables.
תוקף האישור: שנה״ל תשפ״ז תשפ״ח
The software will not create a gap (a window, free period) in a class timetables by default.
Read on 3 October 2026: aSc’s help pages at help.edupage.org, its pricing page and Hebrew page at asctimetables.com, and approval 2285-19 in the Ministry of Education’s catalogue. An earlier version of this page said aSc was not available in Hebrew. That was wrong, and we have corrected it.
What Schedula does differently
When a perfect week is impossible, the students still come first.
aSc will not leave a free period in a class’s day unless you allow one. Schedula starts from the same place, and when a week without them is impossible it searches for the fewest your rules allow, locks the best it finds, and only then reads a single teacher request. A teacher’s request is never granted at the cost of a class’s free hour. That is the default order, and your school can change it.
The loudest teacher stops winning.
Schedula does not chase the average, because an average lets one delighted teacher hide three unhappy ones. It lifts the teachers who got the least of what they asked for first, and holds a floor under them. Every teacher gets their own number: the share of what they asked for that they actually got.
The timetable you build is the one you run each morning.
When a teacher is out, the day’s board shows which lessons need cover and who is free and qualified to take each one, so the morning starts from the same timetable you built.
The September argument becomes arithmetic.
When a teacher asks why someone else got their Friday, you have a figure for both of them, produced by the same rule. You are no longer defending a judgement call you made at midnight in August — you are reading out a number that was applied to all of them identically.
You can overrule it without breaking it.
Move a lesson and the rules are checked again before it lands. A move that would break one is stopped, and you are told which rule; a legal one shows what it costs before you commit. A level-group hour moves as a single piece, so you cannot half-move one. Undo works. You stay in charge of the week without the fear that fixing one thing quietly broke another.
It tells you what cannot work, with the fix beside it.
Before it builds anything, Schedula reads your numbers and names what cannot work: which class, which teacher, which hour, with the fix beside it. And a minimum number of lessons a day is a firm rule: it will refuse to build rather than quietly hand a class a two-lesson day. You exempt a day deliberately or not at all.
Five questions worth asking before you renew
Every one of these is answerable about Schedula in a sentence. Put them to whoever you are paying now, and to us.
When a teacher’s request is granted, can it ever leave a class sitting idle in the middle of the day? If the answer is “it’s weighted”, the answer is yes.
What is the LOWEST teacher satisfaction score in my building — not the average?
If my staffing cannot produce a legal week, when do I find out, and will it tell me which teacher and which hour?
If I move one lesson in August, what stops me breaking a rule I set in June?
Can two people work on the same week at the same time?
Where aSc is stronger
- It is on the Ministry of Education’s approved list through תשפ״ח, and Schedula is not. If your school must buy from that list, that settles it.
- Its free trial has no time limit and does everything the paid version does except export, with a watermark on printouts, so you can build your whole timetable before paying. We do not offer that today; access is arranged with us first.
- It works online and as a Windows program that needs no connection at all, and it has been in schools a great deal longer than we have.
Questions schools ask
Does aSc support Hebrew?
Yes. aSc’s help says the program comes in almost 50 languages, Hebrew among them, and aSc publishes a Hebrew site for Israeli schools. An earlier version of this page said otherwise, and that was wrong.
Is Schedula on the Ministry of Education’s approved list?
No. aSc is, through תשפ״ח, and Schedula is not. If your school must buy its timetable software from that list, talk to us before you plan around Schedula.
We already built this year in aSc. Should we move now?
Probably not mid-year. Moving between timetable programs part-way through costs more than it saves. The moment worth planning for is the next build.
Can we see Schedula before committing?
Tell us your school and we will build a sample week from your own data, so you are looking at your school rather than a demo.
What does it cost?
Tell us the size of your school and we come back with a number.
Stop spending your summer on this.
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