Blog
Practical writing on running a school day to day: fees, attendance, and what to look for when choosing school management software.
Operations
The pupils' register is taken every morning. Staff attendance is a signing book on the front desk. Here is how we built the second one, and the four things we deliberately refused to do.
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Operations
One person draws the exam grid, one paper moves, and the whole thing needs checking again by eye. Usually it is not. Here is the workspace that replaced the pencil.
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Guides
A school asked why the Arabic on its report cards was gibberish. It was not gibberish, and that is what made it hard to spot. What it takes to print Arabic properly in a PDF.
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Guides
A term report tells a parent in December what the school knew in September. Weekly grades are the other rhythm, a mark per subject per week, published a week at a time.
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Guides
The timetable is the one document a school rebuilds every year and dreads every year. The new Weekly Timetable workspace does the placing, catches the clashes as they happen, and shows nobody anything until you publish.
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Guides
Schools do not agree on what belongs on a report card, and until now ours only had one opinion. The Report Card Designer lets each school decide what appears, where it sits, and what it says.
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