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Nobody should draw an exam timetable in pencil
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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The bug that printed confident nonsense
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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Your school knows who was in class. Does it know who was teaching?
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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The term report is too late to be useful
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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Build your school week without the wall chart
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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Design the report card your school actually prints
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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We rebuilt the 1410SMS mobile app, screen by screen
Why the app needed more than a coat of paint, what changed in the redesign, and the rule we used to decide when a screen was finished.
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