Getting started

One school, one term, attendance first. Everything else waits until the register is a habit.

That order is not caution — it is what works. A school that starts with the register alone has, one term later, a system its teachers trust. A school that starts with everything at once has five half-used features and a principal who has stopped opening the app.

#Before the first teacher signs in

Have these ready. Every one is cheap now and expensive later:

• A blank report card — the actual paper your school sends home. Every label, band and remark on it becomes configuration; we match your form, not the other way round.
• The grading scale — bands, minimum marks, remarks, and the pass mark.
• The term calendar — how many semesters or marking periods, and their exact dates.
• Grade levels in the school's own words — "Grade 7", "JSS 1", whatever appears on your documents.
• One real class roster as a spreadsheet — names as they should appear, admission numbers if you use them.
• The assessment split — Classwork 20 / Test 30 / Exam 50, or whatever your school actually uses. It must total 100.

We set the school up from these with you on the phone. No developer is involved; if any step needs one, that is a bug on our side.

#The order that works

1. Week one: attendance. Every teacher, every class, every day. Nothing else is switched on.
2. When the register sticks: marks. The gradebook, assignments, the first printed mark sheet.
3. Then the office: fees, texts to parents, report cards on the school's letterhead.
4. Then the rest, as the school asks for it: quizzes and exam practice, the timetable, admissions, guardian accounts.

#What we watch with you

• Register completion — the share of school days with a register taken, by class. This is the number that says whether the pilot is real.
• Enrolment accuracy — leavers removed, new admissions entered. The system is only as true as the roster.
• Who is signing in — a feature nobody opens is a feature to leave switched off.

#Accounts

Students and teachers sign in with a username the school issues — no email needed, because most people here do not have one they check. Passwords are set on first sign-in. On a shared lab computer, the session ends with the browser.

#Ready?

Call us back and tell us about the school. Twenty minutes on the phone is enough to know whether it fits.