This is the playbook that keeps a mixed coaching roster straight — who's teaching which batch, who's on leave, who covered a substitute slot, and what each tutor is owed this month. Coaching staff HR, not school payroll; staff pay, not student fees.
For academic heads & centre directors · visiting + full-time rosters · leave & substitute cover · classes-taken as a fact, not a score.
Coaching faculty staffing is how an academic head runs a mixed roster of visiting tutors paid per class and salaried full-time faculty — knowing who teaches which batch, who's on leave, who covered a substitute slot, and what each tutor is owed this month. This page is the staffing playbook for that outcome; the underlying pay-calculation tool — per-lecture / per-hour / salaried computation, attendance, payslips — is the tutor-management feature. The roster reads from the batch timetable. K-12 school staff payroll (PF, ESI, TDS) is a separate SchoolDeck solution; student fees — the opposite money flow — are fee-finance. TutorDesk computes what's owed; the institute pays from its own account.
Mr Bose runs a CA/CS coaching centre with three salaried faculty and four visiting tutors. This month one visiting tutor took two days' leave, and a colleague covered a Tuesday batch. Here's the month-end staffing statement — and the line that makes the mix honest.
| Tutor | Type | Basis this month | Owed (₹) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ms Sengupta | Full-time | Salaried · full month, no adjustments | — |
| Mr Bose (self) | Full-time | Salaried · academic head | — |
| Ms Dutta | Full-time | Salaried · 1 LOP day adjusted | — |
| Mr Iyer | Visiting | 22 classes taken · per-class rate | by rate |
| Ms Nair | Visiting | 18 classes taken (2 days' leave) | by rate |
| Mr Khan | Visiting | 20 classes + 1 substitute cover (Tue) | by rate |
| Ms Pillai | Visiting | 15 classes taken | by rate |
| Whole roster | Mixed | 3 salaried + 4 visiting · 1 leave, 1 cover, all accounted | → to pay tool |
Salaried staff in one spreadsheet, visiting tutors' classes scrawled in a diary. At month-end nobody can see the whole teaching workforce or its real cost in one place, so both get errors.
A tutor covers a colleague's batch at short notice and it's never recorded — so the absent tutor is paid for a class they didn't take, and the one who actually taught isn't. Do that twice and you've lost a good visiting tutor.
A tutor's leave isn't tracked against the roster, so on the day, a batch turns up and there's nobody to teach them. Parents notice an empty class faster than almost anything else.
A visiting tutor is told a figure with no breakdown of which classes it covers. Without a transparent count they can check, every month-end becomes an argument instead of a payment.
Lay out which tutor teaches which batch and subject across the week — visiting tutors paid per class alongside salaried full-time faculty — reading from the batch timetable, so the academic head sees the whole teaching schedule and any gap in one place.
When a tutor applies for leave, it's recorded against the roster and a substitute is assigned to the affected batches — so no batch is left without a teacher, and the cover is logged so the substitute's class is counted.
Each tutor's classes actually taken — including substitute cover — accumulates as a transparent, factual record the tutor can see, not a composite quality score or a ranking of staff. It's a count of work done, used for pay and planning, not a judgement.
At month-end, produce a clear statement per tutor — visiting tutors by classes taken at their per-class rate, salaried faculty by fixed pay with any adjustments — so everyone can see how the figure was reached before it's paid.
The detailed per-lecture, per-hour and salaried computation and the payslip are handled by the tutor-management tool. TutorDesk computes what's owed; the institute pays the salaries from its own account. TutorDesk does not hold or disburse the money.
The platform records classes actually taken as a count of work done. It does not produce a composite "tutor quality score" or rank staff against each other — a teacher's effectiveness is a human conversation informed by data, never an automated label.
The platform calculates what each tutor is owed and produces the statement; it does not hold or disburse salary funds. The institute pays its faculty from its own account. TutorDesk is the record and the calculation, not a payroll bank.
Staff records, including any identity documents collected for onboarding, are handled under DPDP Act 2023 Section 6 with consent. Staff data is kept for the staffing purpose, with access limited to those who manage the roster and pay.
Framework references: DPDP Act 2023 §6 (staff data consent). This page is coaching faculty staffing — distinct from K-12 statutory payroll (PF/ESI/TDS), which is the SchoolDeck staff-payroll solution. TutorDesk records and computes faculty pay; it does not hold or disburse salary funds. Figures shown are illustrative; per-class rates and payslips are set and computed in the tutor-management feature.
TutorDesk keeps the staffing outcome and the pay-calculation tool as separate pages on purpose, and keeps coaching staff HR distinct from both school statutory payroll and student fees — so each ranks for its own job.
The roster is the same shape; the mix of visiting and salaried shifts with the institute.
A centre that runs on visiting subject experts paid per class needs the classes-taken count to be airtight, because almost the entire pay bill is per-class. Substitute cover and leave tracking are the difference between a clean month-end and a dispute.
An institute with a salaried core team uses the playbook mostly for leave, cover and the occasional visiting specialist — the value is in never having an uncovered batch and in a clean record of who taught what when a query comes up.
An academic head across branches sees each branch's roster and the tutors who teach at more than one, so a visiting tutor's classes across two centres add up correctly into one monthly statement instead of two partial ones.
"I run a CA/CS coaching centre, and my staffing is a mix — three of us are full-time and salaried, and we bring in four visiting faculty paid by the class. For years the month-end was a headache, because the salaried side lived in one place and the visiting tutors' classes lived in a diary, and the two never reconciled cleanly. The worst was substitutes: someone would cover a batch at short notice and it just wouldn't get written down, so the wrong person got paid and a good tutor felt cheated. Now it's one roster. When Nair took leave last month and Khan covered her Tuesday batch, the system credited the class to Khan — he taught it, he's paid for it, simple. What I value is that it doesn't pretend to score my teachers; it just tells me, truthfully, who taught how many classes. The actual pay calculation and the payslip sit in the tutor tool, and I pay everyone from our own account — the software just gets the numbers right so I'm not arguing about them."
What every academic head and centre director asks before they change how faculty are staffed and paid.
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