Support Staff Timetabling · NCCD Compliance · The only tool of its kind in Australia

Allocateiq

The spreadsheet was never built for this. Allocateiq was. The only purpose-built support staff timetabling and NCCD compliance tool in Australia — tracking structured literacy, numeracy intervention, and other specialist programs alongside all four NCCD levels. Built for the coordinator workflow. Built for the acquittal obligation. Built for the leadership question that comes after both.

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The question every coordinator asks on Monday morning.

Which LSO — or teacher aide, education assistant, or integration aide — is free period 3? Who is covering for today’s absence? Which students missed support this week — and does that affect our NCCD acquittal? For leadership: is our investment in support hours reaching the students who need it most?

Allocateiq answers all of these from the same system you use to build the timetable. No spreadsheet. No phone call chain. No manual evidence reconstruction at year end.

There is no other tool like this in Australia.

General workforce scheduling tools exist but are not built for NCCD. School information systems have deployment modules but do not connect LSO assignments to NCCD student categories or generate acquittal evidence automatically. Allocateiq was built specifically for this workflow — and nothing else in the market does what it does.

What it tracks. In detail.

Most timetabling tools track who is where. Allocateiq tracks why — linking every LSO assignment to the student, the NCCD category, and the program. That connection is what makes the acquittal automatic and the leadership analytics meaningful.

Data typeWhat Allocateiq capturesWhy it matters
NCCD levelsQDTP, Supplementary, Substantial, Extensive — per studentAcquittal evidence sorted by adjustment level at export
LSO contract typePermanent, Casual, On Leave — with FTE and hours per weekAcquittal wages vs funding calculation is automatic
Intervention programsstructured literacy program, numeracy intervention program, Foundation Math, Intervention, Regular, FloaterProgram coverage analytics — which programs are running, how often, and to whom
LSO trainingstructured literacy certified, numeracy intervention certified, intervention certified — per LSOClash detection prevents unqualified LSOs from being assigned to specialist programs
Absence recordsSick leave, personal leave — with term and week stampsAbsence history feeds LSO analytics and replacement audit trail
Student support periodsWeek, term, and year counts — per studentStudents with low support periods are flagged before census
Multi-campusCampus filter across all views — timetable, today, plannerLarge and Enterprise tiers manage multiple campuses from one system

What it replaces. What it adds.

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The timetable spreadsheet

Drag-and-drop grid with clash detection. Assign LSOs to classes across the full term. Conflicts flagged as you assign, not discovered on the day.

Absence phone chains

Today view shows live deployment. Flag an LSO absent and all affected classes are highlighted immediately for reallocation. No calls, no WhatsApp chains.

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Manual NCCD records

Every LSO assignment is linked to the students supported, their NCCD category, and their program. Evidence accumulates automatically as you use the timetable.

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End-of-term reporting

Analytics dashboard: LSO period load, workload equity, program coverage, NCCD category breakdown. One view, no aggregation. Leadership gets the picture without asking for it.

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Term setup from scratch

New Term wizard carries forward your LSO list, updates bell times, generates the term calendar, and opens for assignment. Five steps, five minutes.

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Manual acquittal reconstruction

One-click export: student NCCD summary, weekly assignment records, LSO hours with verification method, and wages vs NCCD funding percentage. Ready for census. No reconstruction required.

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Intervention program scheduling

Assign LSOs to structured literacy, numeracy intervention, and specialist classes. Training badges show which LSOs are qualified. The timetable prevents misassignment automatically.

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LSO mobile day view

LSOs scan a QR code on their phone to see their full day schedule. Period, class, room, and students listed. No paper. No WhatsApp. Updated in real time as changes are made.

Three people. One system. All the answers.

LSO Coordinator

Replaces hours of weekly spreadsheet work. The timetable is always current. Absences handled without a phone chain. The term-end export goes straight to the NCCD submission without reconstruction. Leverage the timetable data you already have — it becomes your acquittal evidence.

Principal / Business Manager

NCCD compliance evidence collected automatically. Analytics show whether LSO hours reach the students who need them most. The acquittal tool links student load to wages and funding — ready for census.

LSOs

Scan a QR code on their phone to see their day’s schedule. No paper briefing notes. No confusion about room changes or covered absences.

What the NCCD acquittal looks like with Allocateiq.

At the end of each term, one click exports a 3-sheet Excel workbook. Sheet 1: student NCCD summary — name, year, category, LSO, programs, weekly support periods. Sheet 2: weekly assignment detail with LSO names and class codes. Sheet 3: LSO hours with verification method column. This workbook goes directly to your acquittal submission. No reconstruction. No copying from emails.

Everything Allocateiq includes.

Every tier includes the full scheduling and compliance engine. Annual licence per school — no per-LSO, per-student, or per-export charges.

Timetable & scheduling
  • ✓  Weekly timetable grid — all LSOs across all days
  • ✓  Today view — single-day filtered by LSO or class
  • ✓  Drag-and-drop session assignment
  • ✓  Multi-period support — split sessions across a day
  • ✓  Class and student rostering with year level
  • ✓  New term wizard — auto-generates week structure from term dates
  • ✓  Rollover wizard — carry LSO and student data to new term
  • ✓  Timetable conflict detection
NCCD compliance
  • ✓  NCCD category tracking — Quality Differentiated, Supplementary, Substantial, Extensive
  • ✓  Acquittal evidence log — verification method per session
  • ✓  Staffing acquittal — LSO hours linked to NCCD student load and wages
  • ✓  Excel export — 3 sheets: assignments, NCCD summary, acquittal evidence
  • ✓  Census-ready output — structured for direct submission
  • ✓  Adjustments tracking — what support is being delivered, how, and when
LSO & student management
  • ✓  LSO profiles — name, qualifications, training, employment type
  • ✓  Student profiles — NCCD category, year, class, support plan notes
  • ✓  CSV import for students and classes
  • ✓  Training field tracking — MacqLit, QuickSmart, and configurable programs
  • ✓  Per-LSO PIN login — read-only daily schedule view
  • ✓  Absence tracking — mark LSO absent, trigger reallocation alert
Analytics & reporting
  • ✓  Coverage analytics — which students are covered, at what level
  • ✓  LSO utilisation — hours per LSO per week
  • ✓  At-risk flags — students with NCCD category but no active allocation
  • ✓  Term comparison — load changes from term to term
  • ✓  Leadership view — whole-school coverage summary
  • ✓  Print timetable — A4 weekly view per LSO or per class
Setup & admin
  • ✓  Guided 5-step onboarding — school details, LSOs, classes, students, first allocation
  • ✓  Setup incomplete banner — prompts until school is fully configured
  • ✓  Licence-gated access — school activated by Edsthetic admin
  • ✓  Tier-based feature gating — Standard, Large, Enterprise
  • ✓  SHC pilot branch — SHC data isolated on shc-pilot branch
Security & infrastructure
  • ✓  Data hosted in AWS Sydney (ap-southeast-2)
  • ✓  Row-level security — school data fully isolated
  • ✓  Brute-force lockout — 5 attempts, 30-second timeout
  • ✓  Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) compliant
  • ✓  NCCD-sensitive data handling
  • ✓  Data Processing Agreement available
  • ✓  Edsthetic ABN: 70 939 441 240

Pricing that makes sense for schools.

Annual licence per school. No per-LSO charges. Standard $1,800/yr · Large (500+ students) $2,800/yr · Enterprise (multi-campus) $4,200/yr. Pilot is free. Bundle with Writeiq and save approximately 25%.

The acquittal. In full.

The NCCD acquittal workbook Allocateiq generates covers five staff groups: Learning Support Officers, Intervention Teachers, Wellbeing and Counsellors, First Aid Officers, and Administration and Coordination staff. For each group it records name, role, classification, FTE, and annual wage.

The summary calculates total wages against the school’s NCCD funding amount and shows the percentage. This is the number the business manager needs. It is generated automatically from data that already exists in the timetable system — no separate calculation, no manual export from payroll.

Built on the NCCD guidelines.

The Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability has specific evidence requirements: the level of adjustment, the nature of the support, and the personnel involved. Allocateiq was built around these requirements. The four NCCD levels — QDTP, Supplementary, Substantial, and Extensive — are the categories used in every report. The evidence Allocateiq collects maps directly to what the guidelines require. There is no translation step.

What leadership sees. Not just coordinators.

Allocateiq has three analytics views. Coordinators see LSO workload, absence counts, and utilisation. But the data that matters most to leadership is whether the investment in support is working.

Workload equity

The analytics dashboard flags when LSO workloads are significantly uneven across the team. Principals can see whether work is distributed fairly before it becomes a staffing issue.

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Student support coverage by NCCD level

How many support periods is each student receiving this week? This term? This year? Sorted by NCCD level. Students with low support periods visible before census — not reconstructed after it.

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Program coverage rates

Which programs are running across the school, how frequently, and to how many students? structured literacy program, numeracy intervention program, and intervention class analytics — separate from general LSO deployment.

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Absence impact

Total absences this term, replacement coverage rate, and which classes are most affected. Leaders see the cumulative impact of absences on support delivery, not just individual absence events.

The research behind it.

The LSO coordinator problem is not just administrative. Research on inclusive education consistently shows that the quality and consistency of LSO deployment is as important as the hours funded. An LSO timetabled to the wrong class, or deployed without knowledge of the student’s program, delivers less value than the hours suggest. Allocateiq makes consistent, program-aware deployment the default — not the exception.

The Disability Standards for Education 2005 require schools to make reasonable adjustments on an individual basis and to consult with students and their associates. The NCCD provides the evidence framework for those adjustments. Allocateiq connects the daily deployment decision to the evidence obligation — so the coordinator’s ordinary work of building and maintaining the timetable is simultaneously building the acquittal case.

The only tool built for this.

Pilot is free. No financial commitment required.

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