Digital class timetables: what is on, where, and who is teaching it
Put today's classes on a screen where members and pupils actually walk past, and change it the moment an instructor calls in sick. No reprinting, no laminated sheet from last term, no reception answering the same question all day.
No credit card required • Cancel anytime • From £10/TV/month ex VAT
- Day and week views One timetable shows today or the whole week.
- Cancel from your phone Mark a class full or cancelled in the Operator App.
- Calendar feeds Copy sessions from Google Calendar or Outlook.
- From £10 a month Per TV, ex VAT. One TV is free.
The timetable on the wall is the one thing everybody checks and nobody maintains
A timetable is printed for a term, a season or a month. It starts accurate and decays daily.
A leisure centre prints the pool timetable in September. By November the Tuesday lane swim has moved an hour to make room for a school booking, the aqua class has a new instructor, and the printed sheet by the turnstile shows none of it. Reception explains the change roughly forty times a week. A gym puts the class timetable on the studio door. The 18:30 spin is cancelled because the instructor is stuck on the M4. Fifteen people arrive at 18:25 and find a locked studio and a printed sheet that still promises a class. A school prints the week's enrichment clubs and pins them in the corridor. Two clubs change rooms in the first fortnight. The sheet does not, so pupils turn up at the wrong door for the rest of term.
What an out-of-date timetable costs you
People turn up to a locked room
A cancelled class that the wall still advertises is worse than no timetable. The member made a journey for nothing, and the next thing they do is complain at reception.
Reception becomes the timetable
When the printed sheet cannot be trusted, every question comes to a person. That is your front desk repeating the same three answers instead of signing someone up.
Quiet classes stay quiet
A class nobody can see is a class nobody joins. The half-empty 14:00 is often a visibility problem, not a demand problem.
Nobody wants to reprint it
Because reprinting means designing, printing, cutting and laminating, small changes get written on in pen and big ones wait until the next term.
A timetable that changes when the day changes
A Timetable in NowBoard is a list of sessions with times, rooms and instructors. Mark one cancelled or full and every screen showing it updates within seconds, and the class running right now highlights itself.
Put a screen where people pass
Reception, the studio corridor, outside the pool, the sports hall entrance. Any TV with an HDMI port.
Enter the week once
Times, class names, rooms, instructors. Start from a ready-made Timetable Board and change the words.
Change it from the poolside
Cancel the 18:30, mark the 09:00 full, move a class to Studio 2. From a phone, in seconds, on every screen.
Ready-made timetable Boards: the week, the next class, and the day's schedule
These are the actual Boards your screen can show in place of a laminated sheet.
How different places use NowBoard for their timetable
Gyms and studios: today's classes at the door
The current class highlights itself and the next three sit under it. Cancel from the office and the studio door agrees immediately.
Leisure centres: pool lanes and studio classes on one screen
Lane swim, aqua, junior squad and the sports hall, each in its own room column, so one screen answers questions about four spaces.
Schools: clubs and room changes in the corridor
Enrichment clubs with the room they are actually in this week, changed by the office rather than reprinted by the department.
Universities: what is on in this building today
Lectures, societies and bookable rooms on a foyer screen, so students stop opening three systems to find out where to be.
Why NowBoard suits a timetable that keeps moving
Now and next, not just a grid
The session running now is highlighted and the ones coming follow it, so a passer-by reads it in a second rather than hunting for today's column.
Cancelled and full are states, not deletions
Strike a class through with a reason, or mark it full with a waitlist, so members see what happened instead of a gap.
Write it once, show it anywhere
One Timetable can appear on the reception screen, the studio door and the pool entrance at the same time.
Different screens, different rooms
The studio corridor shows studio classes; the pool shows the pool. Same account, one edit.
Anyone on the desk can change it
It is a form, not a design tool. Duty managers update it from a phone without asking anyone for help.
From £10 ex VAT per TV/month
Cheaper than laminating a term's worth of sheets. Free plan runs one Screen so you can try it on the studio door.
Common questions about digital timetables
Can I show a whole week, or just today?
Either. A day view suits a studio door; a week view suits reception. Both read the same Timetable, so you only maintain one.
Does it highlight the class that is on right now?
Yes. The current session is marked live and the finished ones fade back, so the screen reads correctly all day without anyone touching it.
Can I cancel a class from my phone?
Yes, with a reason if you want one. It appears struck through on every screen within seconds.
Can different rooms show different timetables?
Yes. Each Screen plays its own Playlist, so the pool and the studio corridor need not show the same thing.
Does it connect to our booking system?
Not directly. If your classes are in Google Calendar, Outlook or any calendar with an iCal address, NowBoard can copy them into a Timetable on its own. See digital calendar displays. For any other booking system, tell us which one you use.
Put the timetable where people walk past
One screen, changed from a phone the moment an instructor calls in sick.