Limited time and changing groups in school sports
In a school environment, you face unique challenges every week. Preparation time between your lessons is extremely short, while expectations for your training planning remain high. You look after different age groups, from primary school students in sports clubs to older year groups in school teams. On top of that, group sizes fluctuate strongly, and skill levels on the pitch are mixed. When you need to brief substitute teachers or pass exercises on to your colleagues and assistant coaches, hand-drawn sketches on paper are usually not enough. Students and other teachers often misunderstand messy sketches. This leads to long explanation phases on the sports field and takes away valuable movement time from your students. In addition, you often only have limited equipment available during PE classes or on the school sports field. You therefore need a tool to quickly and clearly visualize your respective exercise format, adapt it to the available equipment, and deliver it digitally or printed to everyone involved without much effort.
Clear visualization and fast sharing of training plans
For your work at school, you need ready-to-use building blocks and flexible tools. You must prepare your exercise formats so that even younger students in the club understand the sequence immediately. Movement patterns, passing options, and running paths must be clear at a glance. When substitute teachers step in spontaneously for PE lessons, they need to be able to take over the planned session without lengthy onboarding. In addition, you want to share training plans easily. Whether as a clean PDF export on paper for your clipboard on the sideline, as a file for assistant coaches, or via direct sharing with teachers in your school: sharing must not cost extra time. Equally important is direct access to a filled exercise database. There, you filter age-appropriate training content specifically by current group size and available equipment on the school field. This way, you ensure your students get the most out of every session without losing preparation time.
Typical problems and how Coach OS solves them
I need a lot of time to draw exercises clearly and explain them understandably for school clubs.
With the drawing tool Sketch from the Coach OS package, you create exercise formats in just a few minutes. You use ready-made templates for pitches, goals, cones, and poles. Switch between the 2D tactical view and the 3D perspective with a single click. Thanks to auto-morphing, you animate running and passing paths smoothly between individual frames. Students in sports clubs understand the exercises immediately due to the visual representation. This noticeably shortens your explanation time on the school field and gives you more time to coach the children.
It is time-consuming to pass training content to substitute teachers or assistant coaches at school.
In Coach OS, you create complete sessions and export them with one click as a structured PDF. You can print this out or send it directly to your colleagues and assistant coaches. Alternatively, you can share your drawn exercises directly from Sketch. If you invite assistant coaches to your account, they use the onboarding process as an assistant coach and join your team directly. That way, all involved teachers access the same training plans, and substitute teachers conduct PE lessons or clubs professionally without interruption.
I struggle to find exercises that exactly fit the available equipment and group size on the school field.
The exercise database in Coach OS offers you more than 1,244 pre-made exercise formats developed by sports scientists and licensed coaches. You filter the database specifically by age group, current number of players, main training focus, and the exact equipment available in your sports hall. If the group size changes spontaneously, you select matching variations from the database. You no longer have to invent sessions yourself; you access field-tested content directly.
Criteria for the right software in a school environment
When choosing software for school, pay attention to three key criteria: visualization and animation, sharing and collaboration, and ready-made content collections. For visualization, it matters that you quickly arrange fields, goals, and markings. Tools like Sketch offer 2D and 3D views as well as auto-morphing for animations so that students understand movements right away. Basic drawing programs without a football focus or plain paper templates reach their limits here. For sharing and collaboration, you must be able to share plans easily. In Coach OS, you create sessions and print them as clean PDFs or share drawings directly via Sketch. Assistant coaches join via their own invite link without creating orphan teams. Generic messenger or chat tools usually do not offer this structured storage. For content collections, a structured exercise database is critical. Coach OS contains over 1,244 exercises that you filter by age group, number of players, equipment, and key objectives. Manual collections in folder structures cost you significantly more search time.
Possible objections and what the software delivers
Some teachers wonder if the software is too complicated or contains features not needed at school. Coach OS and Sketch consciously focus on training planning, periodization, exercise creation, and data management. You will deliberately not find features like video analysis or collecting membership fees, as they would overload the focus. Getting started succeeds without lengthy onboarding directly in the browser. You draw exercises, use ready-made templates, and share the results immediately with your colleagues. This keeps the software lean, clear, and perfectly suited to your daily routine between the classroom and the sports field.
FAQ: Sharing exercises in school clubs and PE classes
What is the fastest way to share training plans with substitute teachers among my colleagues?
You create the session in Coach OS and export it as a structured PDF with a single click. You can print this document or email it directly to your colleagues. That way, substitute teachers can access the ready-made plan without lengthy onboarding and run PE lessons or after-school clubs smoothly.
Can multiple teachers or assistant coaches work on drills together?
Yes, in Sketch, multiple coaches can work on the same drawing simultaneously and create joint drills. You simply share your drills with your colleagues in the browser or invite assistant coaches directly to your team via the join process. This allows all teachers involved to synchronously access the same training plans and exchange ideas without delay.
Can I also use the software for video analysis or to process membership fees?
No, Coach OS and Sketch intentionally do not include features for video analysis or collecting membership fees. The programs focus specifically on session planning, periodisation, drill creation, and data management. This keeps the interface clear, easy to understand, and ideally suited for your daily routine between the classroom and the school sports field.
How does the drill database adapt to my available equipment?
You enter your available equipment, such as balls, cones, or mini goals, once in Coach OS. You can then use the filter function in the drill database to search specifically for sessions that perfectly match your available equipment and your current group size. This allows you to immediately find field-tested training content for your sports hall or school sports field without time-consuming searching.
You create the session in Coach OS and use the PDF export feature. This generates a clear document with all explanations, drawings, and coaching points. You print this document out or send it digitally by email to your colleagues so substitute teachers can take over the lesson directly.
Yes, in Sketch multiple coaches can work on the same drawing simultaneously. You create exercise formats in the browser and share them with your colleagues. When you invite assistant coaches to Coach OS, they join your team via the specific join process and access all training plans together.
No, Coach OS and Sketch focus specifically on training planning, periodization, exercise creation, and data management. Features such as video analysis or collecting membership fees are not included. This keeps operation clear and ideal for use in PE lessons and school clubs.
In Coach OS, you save your available equipment, such as balls, cones, or mini goals, once. When searching the exercise database with over 1,244 exercises, you filter the results to match this inventory, the number of players, and your students' age group.
Questions about digital exercise creation in school sports
How do I quickly create digital exercise drawings from printed templates or notes?
Take a photo of the printed book page or type your drill routine as short text. Artificial intelligence converts your input directly into a finished drawing and suggests suitable titles, routines, and coaching points. You then adjust details and switch between two-dimensional top view and three-dimensional perspective with one click. In the Sketch drawing tool, you process old templates without redrawing them manually.
What options exist to present exercises clearly for students?
You export finished graphics as a PDF exercise sheet, high-resolution PNG image, or video of the rendered animation. For a particularly vivid presentation, convert the graphic into a three-dimensional scene. Students or teammates scan a generated QR-Code with their smartphone and view the sequence as augmented reality right on the pitch. The system runs directly on a computer or tablet.
Do my drawn exercises remain private or can colleagues see all content right away?
Your drawings initially remain in your personal area and are visible only to you. Only when you set an exercise to public can other teachers or your coaching team access it. You retain full control over your collection at all times. When working together on a drill format, you draw simultaneously on the same exercise if needed and exchange ideas without delay.