About MinuteGrid, and what it is not

What it does

You enter the minutes owed per student, the class blocks students cannot be pulled from, pairs who must not be grouped, and the buildings you split your week across. The scheduler fits the sessions in and lists anything it could not place, naming one of 7 reasons for each:

• No shared day
• Longer than your day
• Your blocks leave no window
• Never in their building
• Class blocks leave no window
• Too few separate windows
• Every window is taken

The reasons are worked out from the schedule on screen, so they still hold after you move a session by hand. Students are entered as initials or a label; the caseload stays in this browser, there is no account, and nothing can be recovered for you.

Where the vocabulary comes from

Terms such as frequency, duration and related service are taken from the 3 public documents listed at the foot of this page, each with the date of the version the guides were written from: two sections of the federal IDEA regulations and the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association's practice portal on caseload and workload. Their wording is linked rather than reproduced. MinuteGrid is not affiliated with any school district, state education agency, or professional association.

Who makes it

One independent developer builds and runs MinuteGrid, with no company, staff or office, and also makes Comment Desk, Judgegrid, Icesheet and PewRota. Guides carry no personal byline, only the MinuteGrid name, and their schema markup lists the MinuteGrid organization as author. No SLP, OT, PT or administrator credential is claimed. Every guide's date points to the latest change in what it says.

Where a scheduling aid stops

• It does not certify compliance. The IEP governs; the tool only arranges time against the numbers you typed.
• A plan is not a service log. Record delivered services in the system your district requires.
• Local policy wins. District rules on group size, session length, travel and makeups override the solver.
• No legal, clinical or educational advice. Questions about what a particular student is entitled to belong with the IEP team.
• Keep identifying data out. Initials are enough. Names, diagnoses and goals belong in your district's systems.

Reporting an error

Tell [email protected], with the page name, if a guide describes the scheduler wrongly or a regulation it cites has since changed. See also the privacy policy, terms and FAQ.