An absence becomes a filled job without the 5:30am phone tree.
So the secretary's morning starts at 7, like everyone else's.
Sub Coverage turns a teacher's absence into a filled job: report it in a text, Binder offers it to the pool, and the first sub to tap accept gets the day.
Try it freeWhat Sub Coverage does
Text that you're out. Binder reads the dates and starts finding coverage.
So being sick at 5am costs you one text.
A sub accepts with one tap. No account, no app, no password.
So the job goes to whoever answers first, not whoever you managed to reach.
The sub gets the day's plans in their own language, with the confidential files left out.
So a stranger can run the room without reading a student's 504.
Sound familiar?
- “Our secretary starts dialing substitutes before the sun is up.”
- “I'm sick at 5am and the first thing I have to do is fill out a form.”
- “Half the pool never picks up, and the ones who do can't log into anything.”
- “The sub folder is a binder on the desk, and whatever is in it is what they see.”
Sub Coverage exists so nobody's morning starts at 5:30 with a phone list.
It checks the pass and the cover, not just the timetable
Ask where a student is and Binder gives you the room they're actually in — the nurse if she's on a pass, the gym if her class got covered. Works with Binder Hallpass, Find.
What you're using now
Filling an absence is a secretary awake at 5:30 with a printed phone list, calling down it until somebody says yes. The list is out of date, the good subs get called last because they're further down, and nobody can tell you at 7am how many rooms are still uncovered. Binder sends the offer to the whole pool at once and lets the first person to answer take it.
Every Binder app works like this
Built for your phone first
Every screen works in a hallway, not just at a desk.
Paper is a first-class input
Point your camera at a roster, a sign-out sheet, a stack of work — Binder drafts, you approve.
Your district's words
Labels and letters render in your district's own terminology.
AI drafts, people decide
Nothing becomes a record until a person says so.
More on how Binder works: the platform · security & privacy
Every Feature You'd Expect. Every Feature You'll Need.
The ordinary things a tool like this has to do. Listed so you can check them off.
- Absence reporting in-app or by text
- Leave balances shown when you report
- A sub pool you maintain
- Offer waves that widen on their own
- A live board of open needs and offers
- End-of-day reports from the sub
14 days, no credit card, nothing to install. Explore with sample data, or bring your own roster.