Hand it what you've already got
Your timetable, the term dates, the school calendar, a duty rota, a scheme of work. A PDF, a spreadsheet or a photo of the staffroom noticeboard will do. CuppaTA reads it, shows you what it found, and adds only what you tick.
Each morning, one note
Deadlines first, then anything that has slipped, what needs printing, and your lessons in order. It arrives by email or as a notification, and it is shorter on a quiet day.
Monday 16 November · Week 1
Morning, Sam.
Four lessons today, two things to do.
On today: Lunch duty 12:40–13:10
To do
Lessons
An example. Yours is built from your own timetable, in your own words.
Tell it how today went
Tap the mug and talk for half a minute: what got done, what didn't, what moved. CuppaTA proposes the changes, such as pushing a lesson on, moving the test that followed it, or chasing the essay that didn't come in. Nothing changes until you say yes.
Nothing about pupils. Ever.
There is nowhere in CuppaTA to put a pupil's name, a mark or a class list, and anything in a check-in that looks like a name is taken out before it is saved. Your plan is held in Ireland, and you can download or delete all of it yourself. How CuppaTA treats your information
Made by a working teacher
CuppaTA is built by a teacher who writes here as Big Green Cuppa: an Oxford PGCE, and experience across international schools, English-language teaching, and UK state and independent schools. It exists because the planning never stops when the day changes, and nobody is handed a TA to keep up with it.
It is in a small pilot now. It will stay free to try, with a printable plan for everyone and the full planner for about the price of a Cuppa a month.