Tag: School ERP in Nigeria

Categories
Education ICT

The New and enhanced features in School Software Pro

school management software in Nigeria

Your School Software Pro now have more new features:

School Software Pro is All-in-One school management software in Nigeria for Primary, Secondary, Colleges, Polytechnics and University with 57+ useful features to Teach, Learn, Examine and Manage.

Certificate Generator, ID Card Generator, Fee Accounts, Fee Receipt Templates and Receipt Sets, Subjects Center, Skill-based evaluation, Attendance in Reports and Guardian Photo.

Here is the list of 8 new features included with this release.

 

Feature Description User Role Module
Certificate Generator Design certificate templates with the new Certificate Generator in School Software Pro. Create templates for students or employees with the Rich Text Editor. Use field codes to add the system data as well as custom data in the certificate. Upload backgrounds, add user photos and barcodes to customize the certificate as per requirement.Certificates can be generated in bulk or individually for selected users. Administrator, Privileged Employee Certificate Generator
ID Card Generator With the new ID Card Generator, institutions can create templates for student and employee ID cards as required. Design one side or both, add background images, barcode, include custom and system data using field codes and much more with the new ID card generator.ID cards can be generated in bulk or individually for each user in 2 sizes – A4 Canvas or in ID card size Administrator, Privileged Employee ID CardGenerator
Fee Accounts If your institution groups finance transactions under various account heads, this new feature is for you. Fee categories, finance categories, and custom income categories can be grouped under a fee account. All transactions made for fee collections or income heads will be recorded against the particular fee account. Filter fee receipts and transaction reports by accounts to separate different types of transactions for easy accounting.Important:

* All existing transactions and any transaction without a fee account fall under a system generated – Default Account.

* If you have already recorded transactions in this academic year, it is advisable to not use this feature mid-year as only new transactions will get the fee accounts.

* Any changes made to the account of a category does not affect already created collections. Once accounts are enabled and used, it cannot be disabled later.

* Contact your support team on how this feature can be best used for you.

 Administrator, Privileged Employee Finance
Fee Receipt Templates and Receipt Sets Customize fee receipts headers and footers as required using the fee receipt templates. Receipt sets allow you to define receipt sequences that can be used for transactions under the fee category.Design the receipt template header using the Rich Text Editor, add the header name, additional details like address, contact details, logo etc. Add footer content like payment, refund instructions in the footer area.

Important:

* To ensure data integrity, receipt templates and sets once assigned to a fee in a year should not be changed after transactions have been recorded against it.

 Administrator, Privileged Employee Finance
Subjects Center Course SubjectsThe new subjects center replaces the batch-wise manage subjects page. All subjects will now be created from the Course Subjects page. Using the Link Subjects option Course Subjects can be assigned to batches under a course. This flow improves the subject creation speed.

Subject Group

One or more subjects can now be grouped under a common label and shown together in the gradebook reports. Under a subject group, subjects or elective groups can be added. Other properties with respect to subjects remain the same.

Skill Sets

If a subject is evaluated on standards rather than a single mark/grade for a subject, the new skill sets can be of help. Skill sets can contain skills and subskills. Both can have an optional formula to evaluate the overall result. The skill set as a whole can also be assigned a formula to calculate the total marks for the subject.

Subject Order

Subjects order can be now defined in the subject center. This order will be reflected in the Gradebook Report Cards.

Important:

* To link existing subjects to the new mode, use ‘Connect Existing Subjects’ under Link batches.

* The manage subjects page will no longer allow the creation of new subjects. It can be used to edit existing subjects and will be deprecated in the future releases.

* Changes made to a subject like changing of an assigned skillset will not affect existing subjects and exams.

 Administrator, Privileged Employee Settings
Skill-based evaluation The new skill sets can be used in gradebook exams. An exam can be made as skill-based when it is assigned to a planner. All such exams will have a skill-based mark entry mode for the subjects. Skills will be shown in all applicable report cards. Administrator, Privileged Employee Gradebook
Attendance in Reports Student Attendance data can now be shown in Gradebook Reports. It can be enabled individually for each of the 3 report cards – Exam, Term, and Planner.In the Term and Planner reports, data can be shown for exam-(or term)wise or a consolidated value for that reporting period. Attendance data can be auto-populated from the attendance module or manually entered for each student from the manage exams page. Administrator, Privileged Employee Gradebook
Guardian Photo Guardian photos can now be uploaded from the student admission page. Administrator, Privileged Employee
Student

Read: Benefits Of Fees Management System 

What’s enhanced in School Software Pro

Here is the list of enhanced features included with this new release.

Feature Description User Role Module
Preventing mark entry after submission Exams can now have an optional last date of mark entry. Once this date is crossed, mark entry cannot be done by subject teachers, batch tutors and mark entry privilege users. Only mark submission option will be available.After marks are submitted, no user is allowed to edit the marks. This ensures the data integrity of submitted marks. In order to edit any submitted marks, they will have to be unlocked for each subject from the actions button of that subject by the admin or manage gradebook privilege user. Administrator, Privileged Employee, Batch Tutor, Subject Teacher Gradebook
Manual SMS for Attendance SMS sending for Attendance can now be made manual if needs to be verified before sending. Enabling the Manual Notification option in SMS Settings stops the automatic triggering of SMS notifications for student attendance. The list of absentee students for a day can be fetched from the ‘Notification Status’ link. Notification can be sent to select students as needed. Administrator, Privileged Employee Attendance
TC font size TC font size for the body can be set using this setting. All TC body text will take the font size. There are 6 font sizes available:Very Large – 16px, Large – 14px, Normal – 12px, Medium – 11px Small – 10px and Very Small – 9px Administrator, Privileged Employee Transfer Certificate
New Fee Settings page Fee settings from General settings have moved to a new page in Finance named ‘Finance Settings’. Other settings in this module have been consolidated under various heads under the new page. Administrator, Privileged Employee Finance

Read:  School Software Benefits Teacher, Student & Parent

Issues Fixed

Here is the list of issues fixed in this new release.

API

  • Fixed an issue where the Timetable API does not return the subject name

Calendar

  • RTL style and translation issues in calendar fixed.

Custom Import

  • Fixed issue with delayed job failing for Bulk Edit.

Exam

  • Fixed 500 error in exam wise consolidated report.

Event

  • 500 error fixed arising when editing a holiday event for a department that was deleted.

Finance

  • The tax amount was not shown as a percentage of the particulars in Instant Fees.
  • Optimizations in the code to load the student fees, fee structure and student-wise fee head-wise reports.
  • Fixed an issue with Custom Words translation in particular wise discount page.

Online Payment

  • Fixed an issue in Pay all Fees where partial payment was restricted in a collection when partial payment option was disabled for Online Payment.

Timetable

  • RTL style issue with Assign/Unassign batches in timetable fixed.

Transfer Certificate

  • Style issue with certificate issue date not fitting in the same line as the label.

Settings

  • Changing Institution Type does not change does not change Course to Class.
Categories
Education ICT

How school management software help schools in saving money

First and foremost a school management software system can reduce a lot of the paper thus help you save a lot of money (Saving cost) that you can spend for other fruitful purposes. With the help of this system, a school can easily stop paper-based processes that are needed for various tasks. Some examples of such tasks would be refund processing and employee reimbursements.

School Software Pro is All-in-One school management system in Nigeria for Polytechnics, Universities, Group of schools, Primary and Secondary schools.

In their stead, a school can come up with paperless choices such as online class registration and electronic billing for paying tuition fees. When you have document management facilities in your school management software you can also lessen the usage of paper in areas such as accounts payable.

In general, with electronic tools such as these at your disposal, you can reduce the amount of printing that you have to do as a school. Apart from paper and printing supplies this way you can save money on postage as well.

Below highlighted the various ways through which school management software like School Software Pro helps schools in saving money:

1. Streamlining business procedures

With a good software system for the school, you would be able to streamline your business processes as well. Quite often you may need to hire business process specialists in order to look at ways in which your overall operations can be made more efficient.

It is true that you can save a lot of money that way as well. However, things can get even better if you were to switch to an electronic processor such as the one we are talking about over here. For example, you would be able to streamline processes such as purchase orders, maintenance requests, and payroll to name a few.

Some of the functions that can be performed seamlessly with these systems may be mentioned as below:

Apart from these, these systems also help you perform functions such as inventory management and placement at a lot less cost.

2. Special purpose applications

With the help of a top class school management system, you would be able to better manage critical areas of your operation such as food services, textbooks, usage of rooms, school buses, and utilities like electricity and heating and cooling. This way you can save a whole lot of money as well.

3. Reduction in cost of communication

With a top of the line school management software system, you would be able to save a lot of money in the area of communications. For example, you would not need the phone on every desk system that was once the norm in every school in the days gone by. The main reason for this is the fact that these systems use unified communications tools. Examples of such tools would be Skype and voice over internet protocol (VOIP).

They also utilize business processes like setting up communication technologies and centralize the buying process of a school. As most of the IT (information technology) executives working in schools would tell you, the biggest benefit of unified communications is that it is capable of reducing operating costs. At the same time, it leads to better productivity and communication also become a lot more reliable as well. Apart from that, with systems such as these, you can put a phone in every room of your school. This, in turn, can make your school a lot more secure than before.

These systems come with inbuilt messaging systems and can easily help you send many messages in the shortest span of time to other people who are connected to the same system. This makes it easy for you administrators to have effective communication with all the stakeholders such as teachers, parents, and students. No longer do you need to communicate separately with them – a process that can take up a lot of time and cost you a lot of money as well.

4. Easy to use systems

The systems that we are talking about over here are very easy to use. They come with facilities like inventive search bars that allows just about anyone to use the software within a few seconds of logging in. It also helps that they have been designed in order to provide a great experience to the users. The interface of these systems is user-friendly and this means that just about anyone with basic knowledge of computers can use these systems. All you need is a little bit of training to operate these systems.

This means that as a school you are not spending a lot of time – and thus money – on training your resources. Since the systems are easy to use you also do not need to hire experts, who are normally costlier, to operate them. This easy to learn and master feature thus makes it convenient for you to save money that you would otherwise incur.

5. Reducing the cost of admissions

As we all know, admission is a major headache for all schools. There is a lot of data that has to be taken care of and there are plenty of resources that have to be engaged to make sure that the entire process happens without mistakes. In a nutshell, all this costs you plenty of money for sure. However, with these new age school management software systems you can perform all these functions smoothly and save a lot of your resources as well.

Resources, in this case, include your money as well. With these systems, you can create unique IDs for all the applicants, create detailed admission forms, and customize them just about the way you want them. This means that you do not need to use up a lot of your employees, spend a lot of time and money printing forms that could very well have mistakes, and spend a lot of time in managing the entire process.

Source: http://www.schoolsoftware.com.ng/blog/how-school-management-software-help-schools-in-nigeria-in-saving-money

Categories
Education ICT

School Software Pro! All-in-One School ERP in Nigeria

For school administrators that are sourcing for a good and affordable School Management Software in Nigeria, we will explain in this blog  why we tip and recommend School Software Pro as the best in Nigeria,

School Software Pro is All-in-One school management software in Nigeria for Primary, Secondary, Colleges, Polytechnics and University with 57+ useful features to Teach, Learn, Examine and Manage.

It is Fully customizable to meet school Needs. In the design School Software Pro, they take into consideration the challenges in managing educational institutions. This include schools, colleges, group of schools, training institutions and universities. It is also recommended to distant learning schools.

School Software Pro covers Nigerian schools and other African countries more than any other School Software in Africa. We advice you Take your time to go through their online free demo. It takes care of all the processes in your institution, right from admission of new students/ staff to graduation, generating transfer certificate and transcript and even to alumni.

SOME OF THE ADVANTAGES OF USING School Software Pro

  1. Full Money Back Policy. Full refund of money if the features are not working as promised.
  2. It is affordable with more features than most of its competitors
  3. Used by many schools across Nigeria
  4. Professional after sales support
  5. It is All-in-One to manage Primary, Secondary, Colleges, Polytechnics and University
  6. No hidden fee
  7. You can use School Software Pro to manage your group of schools in different locations that has different names.
  8. It comes with  FINANCE & ACCOUNTING for schools of any size. Fees, salaries, payroll system and receipting.
  9. Full Online / Offline ADMISSION MODULE with email and SMS notifications
  10. Automatic SMS and EMAIL NOTIFICATION to users in many activities.
  11.  Click to see list of key features of School Software Pro

THINGS THAT MAKES SCHOOL SOFTWARE PRO UNIQUE

  • Cost Effective: School Software Pro save schools lots of money. This is because it’s an enterprise resource project. You not need buy and install many software to run your institution or group of schools. School Software Pro have a market place and third party software integration. .
  • Wide range of features: SCHOOL SOFTWARE PRO have more than 50 useful features that training institution use often for the smooth running of schools. The features make your school business work easy and efficient. You can add more features using the wide range of plugins that are available.
  • Easy to Customize: We understand that all educational systems have their own governing systems in place. Therefore we have allocations for you to make changes so that this SCHOOL SOFTWARE PRO works best for you. It is very easy to customize and one should be able to complete the customization process very easily.
  • Flexible & Affordable Pricing You can purchase the SCHOOL SOFTWARE PRO plan that suits your institution at the moment. As your school grows, you can change your existing plan without additional cost of migration.
  • Mobile versions: Use SCHOOL SOFTWARE PRO on the go from any location using the mobile web app. It supports all smartphones and works from the browser. Nothing to install. Nothing to upgrade.
  • All round Support We assured you 24*7 support. When you have the right guidance and support from a team of experts, reaching the market for your products and services becomes all easy. Scale new heights of success in your school with assistance from SCHOOL SOFTWARE PRO support team.
  • Report Cards: Report Cards is fully integrated with SCHOOL SOFTWARE PRO for parents and students. Teachers use the gradebook to enter grades, and the data flows seamlessly to the registrar to generate report cards. Report cards and transcripts can also be saved as PDFs and shared with parents and students in the SCHOOL SOFTWARE PRO.
  • Accounting The Finance module for fee management, provides private and public schools with powerful features that will save administrative staff time in student invoicing, data entry and financial record keeping. Designed for ease-of-use and flexibility, our finance module allows school staff to easily handle a wide range of fee tasks – from expenditure records and receiving cash, cheque or online payments, to tuition plans, donations, financial record keeping and billing-related reporting.
  • Highly Secure: One of key aspects about SCHOOL SOFTWARE PRO is its reliability. Once you have used this software you will realize that all your sensitive information will be stored in a safe secure manner. We follow all the latest security protocols and keep updating them to ensure that the safety of our clients data.
  • Privilege: Just as boss have full control of his business (staff etc) in real life, so you are in charge of your school with School Software Pro. Admin has the control to assign and withdraw privileges from all employees at any time.Admin’s role is the heart and soul of SCHOOL SOFTWARE PRO. Its main purpose is to manage all the features and users in School Software Pro.

    Staff Privilege: Employee/ Teacher can have access to all the features in SCHOOL SOFTWARE PRO that is assigned to him/her by admin.Student Privilege: All students have privilege to Assignment, Academic, Blog, Report, Library, Timetable, Messages, Collaborations, Fee, Edit Profile, Print Result, inbox, Hostel etc

    Parent Privilege: All parents have privilege to Print Result, Timetable, Messages, Fee, Edit Profile, inbox, Hostel etc

error: Content is protected !!
Exit mobile version