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A Cloud School Portal That Goes Paperless. 20,000+ Students on One System.
/ The engagement
Every Role, One Portal.
A cloud school management portal that enrolls students, teachers, parents, and administrators, with internal messaging at its heart plus gradebook, attendance, and assignment management, in English and French.
/ About the client
The client, based in the USA, is a software enthusiast set on upgrading the education system in South Africa, with a focus on the Cameroon region.
The portal enrolls every entity tied to a school, from students to teachers, parents, and administrators. Internal messaging sits at its heart, while gradebook, attendance, and assignment management set it apart from other school systems.
/ The approach
Design, architecture, and features, shipped as one program.
Five roles, one model
The system spans super admin, school admin, teachers, students, and parents, with a data model that handles the complex relationships between them.
Built for Africa
We integrated the mobile payment technology used across Africa, working through a complex new API to make it fit the portal.
English and French
The application ships in both English and French, so schools use it in the language their community speaks.
Year after year
When the academic year changes, grades, grade levels, and student data carry forward cleanly with no manual re-entry.
/ What stood in the way
Four problems, solved without a maintenance window.
Select a challenge to see how it shaped the build.
Complex data relationships
Five roles with intricate data-sharing between them made the database complex. We designed a model that connects them cleanly.
Mobile payments in Africa
Mobile payment technology used in Africa was new to the team and its API was complex. We integrated it into the portal.
English and French
The client needed the application in two languages. We built it in both English and French.
Year-end data rollover
When the academic year changes, all student data must carry forward. We automated the rollover of grades, grade levels, and records.
/ Product screens
The delivered experience.
The interface people actually use.
/01Dashboard
/02Messaging
/03Gradebook
/04Attendance
/05Assignments
/06Payments
/07Screen 7
/08Screen 8
/09Screen 9
/10Screen 10
/11Screen 11/ The results
What changed, in numbers.
/ Next step
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