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Made because teachers are out of time.

Every primary teacher keeps a daily work pad. Filling it in means copying a timetable that is already typed and a plan that is already written into a fresh grid, every week of every term. Teachers are underfunded and understaffed, and that hour comes out of the evening.

Daily Work Pad exists to give the hour back. Pip drafts the newsletter, the relief note and the worksheet. Nothing goes anywhere until you have read it. You’re still the teacher.

NowA small pilot with WA primary teachers, by invitation.
NextReport comments, and the states still on placeholder wording. WA Mathematics is one of them, and the app says so where you pick a code.

Questions

What is Daily Work Pad?

A daily planning app for Australian primary teachers. You set the timetable up once. After that, generating a day lays the periods out at their real times and pulls in the forward plan you already wrote, so you start the week editing a day rather than building one from nothing.

Is my class list safe? Where do the names go?

Student names are end-to-end encrypted. They live in a vault in your browser and are never included in cloud sync: a synced lesson, an export, anything Pip is asked to draft carries a code like STUDENT_04 instead of a name. One backup of that vault is kept, because clearing your browser history would otherwise take every name with it. It is encrypted on your device before it leaves, with a key built from a PIN Daily Work Pad never receives, so nobody at Daily Work Pad can read it, and neither could anyone who stole the whole database. Printing is the deliberate exception: the pad you leave for a relief teacher puts the real names back as it prints, on your device, because nobody can act on "STUDENT_04 needs an enlarged worksheet", and privacy mode takes them off again for a sheet headed to a shared printer.

Does it follow the Australian Curriculum?

Yes. All 2,678 ACARA v9.0 content descriptions are in the app, word for word from the workbook ACARA publishes. Western Australia is most of the way there: English, Science, HASS, and Health and Physical Education come straight from SCSA’s mandated scope-and-sequence documents, and Mathematics is still placeholder wording, because SCSA has not licensed its Maths for reproduction. The other states and territories are placeholders too. Everywhere that is true the app says so on the screen where you pick a code, and a WA teacher is never shown NSW content, because the jurisdictions cannot mix.

What is Pip?

Pip is your Personal Intelligent Pal, the assistant built into the pad. It drafts a lesson from your forward plan, lists what to gather, writes the class newsletter, puts together a relief note, and sums up the day. All of that also works without AI, from what is already on your device, so it still helps when the internet is out or you have turned AI off.

How much does it cost?

A$30 a month with the first month free, or A$300 for the year, Australian dollars with GST included. There is a free plan for one class with usage caps instead of an end date, so you can stay on it as long as it suits you.

Do I have to install anything, or get IT involved?

No. It runs in your browser. Add it to the home screen on your laptop, iPad or phone if you want it to open like an app. Nothing to download, nothing for school IT to install.

Will it work if the school internet drops out?

Yes. Everything you plan is stored in the browser on your own device, so the pad, the class list and the marksbook open and edit with the wi-fi off. What needs a connection is Pip’s AI drafting, signing in, and syncing across to your other device. All three catch up when the school internet comes back.

Is it any use for secondary?

Not yet. It suits a primary teacher with one class across several subjects, and a specialist in music, PE or languages who sees eight or ten classes a week. A secondary timetable, with different students every period and a different roll each time, is a different shape and this does not fit it. If that is your week, it is the wrong tool for now.

Can I get my planning out again if I stop using it?

Yes. Settings has a Backup and restore panel that writes the lot to one encrypted file: class list, marks, plans, notes and pads. You choose the passphrase and it is never sent anywhere, so keep the file and the passphrase in different places. Restoring it on another machine puts everything back, and it works whether or not you are paying.

Terms and privacy, in plain words

The full documents are linked below. This is the short version.

What you’re agreeing to

Use it for your own teaching. Put students in through the class list, so their names land in the vault, and check your school’s privacy policy covers it first.

What Daily Work Pad agrees to

Your work is yours. Nothing is sold or used for advertising, and nobody opens your account without asking you first. It is a beta, so keep your own export.

Money

Nobody is charged during the pilot. When billing starts, Free stays capped rather than timed, Teacher is monthly or yearly with GST included, and a school is invoiced once a year.

Your rights

Settings has a Delete everything that clears this device and the cloud at once. Ask for a copy of what is still held, or to close the sign-in, and it is free and answered inside 30 days.

Another question?

Write to support@dailyworkpad.com. A person reads it, usually the same day in term time.

Get in touch

Join the pilot.

I have an invite code

No card required. The pilot is closed, so signing up needs an invite. Without one, write to support@dailyworkpad.com.