Modern 26 includes all the functionality of Modern, along with performance improvements and new features designed to make daily organisation more efficient.

What's new in Modern 26?

  • Improved performance: Faster response times, particularly when working with larger datasets or extensive calendar activities.
  • Group Teacher Absences: Create and manage groups of teacher absences across multiple dates, making it easier to organise and update planned absences.
  • Group Casual Teacher Availability: Group casual teachers and manage their availability across multiple dates.
  • Group Room Availability: Group rooms and manage availability changes across multiple dates.
  • More flexible planning: Improved options for adding, editing and reviewing individual and grouped records across date ranges.

All existing Modern functionality remains available, including teacher replacements, room changes, student activities, cancellations, reports and publishing.


Preparing for the transition


We encourage schools to begin exploring Modern 26 now, using a test campus, rather than waiting until the start of the 2027 school year.


You can do this using a test campus and an existing timetable, without affecting your school's current Daily Organiser data.


Step 1 – Create a test campus

In the Management Portal:

  1. Go to Task 2A Manage School, and create a new campus (e.g. "Modern 26 Testing").
  2. Add the 2027 Academic Year and configure the term dates.
  3. Publish a timetable for the test campus. This does not need to be your 2027 timetable - you can use an existing timetable you are familiar with.

Step 2 – Explore Modern 26

  1. At the top right of the page, click your profile picture, click Profile, scroll down and change the Daily Organiser Interface to Modern 26.
  2. Open the Daily Organiser and select your new test campus and 2027 Academic Year.
  3. Explore the interface and familiarise yourself with the new Groups functionality and planning features.
    - Task 6B Plan Days: 6B Plan Days - Timetabling Solutions Knowledge Base
    - Task 6C Plan Casual Days: 6C Plan Casual Days - Timetabling Solutions Knowledge Base
    - Task 7B Plan Rooms: 7B Plan Rooms - Timetabling Solutions Knowledge Base

You can experiment with the test dataset without affecting your school's existing Daily Organiser data.

Step 3 – Prepare for 2027

Once you are familiar with Modern 26 and your 2027 timetable is ready:

  1. In the Management Portal, create the 2027 Academic Year under your school's regular campus and configure the term dates.
  2. Publish your 2027 timetable to the regular campus.
  3. Open the Daily Organiser using Modern 26, then select your regular campus and 2027 Academic Year.

You are now ready to commence the 2027 school year using Modern 26.

Important: Modern 26 uses a new data format that is not compatible with Modern or Classic.

Once an existing Daily Organiser dataset is upgraded to Modern 26, it cannot be opened in earlier versions. All users accessing that dataset must use Modern 26.

By creating a new 2027 dataset in Modern 26, you can leave your existing 2026 Daily Organiser data unchanged.