Against the teacher shortage, every hour that goes back into the classroom helps.
Training new teachers takes years. LAURA turns a different dial: the time existing teachers spend on correction today. If part of it is freed up, you get relieved capacity on paper, without cutting a single position.
LAURA proposes, the teacher decides. No automatic grade output, every decision with an audit trail.
The teacher shortage is a capacity problem
Demand for teaching hours is rising, but the number of available teachers is not growing fast enough. There are three levers: train more, recruit more, use existing time better. The first two take years. The third works right away.
Time is the bottleneck
Correction ties up a substantial share of working time. Every hour regained is an hour for teaching and support.
Educational fairness
Where teachers are overloaded, individual support suffers first. Relief lands exactly where children need more attention.
Without losing control
The pedagogical decision stays with the teacher. LAURA provides evidence and proposals, never the finished grade.
How much time does LAURA give back, on paper?
Enter your key figures and adjust the assumptions. Everything computes live in your browser, with no data transfer. The numbers are an open estimate, not a guarantee.
Your key figures
The calculation uses only your own numbers, no invented regional statistics.
Assumptions of the calculation
HypothesisThese factors are deliberately open and adjustable. Set them more conservatively or more optimistically, the calculation reacts instantly.
A rough guide value for the order of magnitude, not a LAURA price. Assumed annual working time per full-time position: 1,800 hours.
800
full-time equivalents (FTE) of freed-up correction time.
That is how much marking time is freed up in this scenario, converted into full-time equivalents. It is time gained, not a post cut and not a post filled.
Time gained relative to the shortage
160 %
This is the size of the recovered time relative to the estimated shortage. It fills no post, it gives time back to the teachers already there.
Value of the capacity
Hypothesis€86,400,000
Calculated annual value of the freed-up teaching capacity. Deliberately no LAURA price, only the order of magnitude of the effect.
How this tool calculates
- 10,000 teachers, of which 20% of working time goes to correction.
- LAURA gives back 40% of that.
- Yields 800 FTE of relieved capacity (teachers x correction share x time savings).
All factors are assumptions and editable by you. No personal data and no student data go in, everything computes locally in your browser.
What authorities and ministries get out of it
Relief that is measurable, without touching teachers' autonomy.
Retain your staff
Overload is a reason to quit. Giving time back keeps experienced teachers in the profession longer.
Strengthen support
Freed-up time flows into individual support, especially at schools with high support needs.
Data protection to EU standard
Local processing by default, mandatory RLS, an auditable hash chain. Verifiable for data protection officers.
Scales with the authority
From the single school to a state-wide rollout, with clear roles and aggregated metrics, without raw data of individual children.
Traceable
Every assessment with an audit trail. Uncertainty is made visible, never hidden.
Pilot instead of big bang
A controlled pilot with a few schools, real numbers instead of promises, then a well-founded decision about going broad.
LAURA proposes, the teacher decides
There is no automatic grade output. LAURA provides evidence and proposals, the final assessment is always made by the teacher, with a complete audit trail. That way pedagogical responsibility stays where it belongs.
Frequently asked questions
- Does LAURA replace teachers?
- No. LAURA proposes, the teacher decides. The calculator shows how much correction time is freed up on paper, so that existing teachers can use that time where it is really needed: with the children.
- Where do the numbers in the calculator come from?
- From your own inputs and from assumptions that are visible and editable out in the open. We do not invent regional statistics or LAURA prices. Every assumption is marked as a hypothesis and can be adjusted.
- What does a saved full-time equivalent mean?
- It is the working time freed up on paper, converted into full positions. It is not a job cut, but relieved capacity: the same teachers gain time for support, preparation and relationship work.
- Is student data involved?
- This page only processes synthetic inputs in your browser. No personal data and no student images are sent. LAURA itself is privacy-first, with local processing by default.
Plan a pilot with your authority
We start with a few schools, measure the time actually gained and deliver real numbers for the decision about broad deployment. Get in touch, we will reach out for a calm first conversation.