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The timetable is your teaching week: which periods you teach, which classes fill them, and what you are covering in each.

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It starts already set up

The first time you open it, MESO seeds a default Irish post-primary week — Monday to Friday, ten periods, with break and lunch as real rows rather than gaps. Most teachers adjust that rather than build from nothing.

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The parts

Your day structure, classes and recurring placements are the part that does not change from week to week. That is set up once and then largely left alone.

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Placing your work

Planned items can be placed into the week. Four kinds can go in:
  • Lessons from your units
  • Assessments
  • Resources
  • Custom entries, for anything else
This is how a unit stops being a document and becomes a week — the lesson you planned lands on the day you are teaching it.
Give each class a distinct colour when you set it up. On a full ten-period week across five days, colour is what makes the timetable readable at a glance.

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Classes and units

A class can be linked to a unit, which is what connects the group you teach to the plan you are teaching them. Classes can also be archived when they are no longer running, rather than deleted, so the history stays intact.

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Changing the shape of the day

If your school’s day does not match the default — a different number of periods, different times, a split lunch — edit the day structure rather than working around it. Everything else hangs off it.