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The term ‘old school’ is usually attributed to describe something that is outdated and does not hold relevance in modern times. However, in the larger context of India ‘old school’ can serve to be an ideal term to precisely describe the abominable situation of our country’s traditional schools. Educational problems and solutions is a widely debated issue in a country with more than 1.5 million schools and 250 million students. Nevertheless, the solutions to these problems remain uncharted and unenforced.
The essence of the discussion comes around mainly one solution i.e. an end-to-end school management system comprising of various digital solutions for education that can accommodate the needs of all participating stakeholders, like students, teachers, school management, administrators and most importantly parents.
In this blog, we will understand what exactly is a school management system and discuss some significant reasons around their importance.
What is a School Management System?
In simple words, a school management system is a combination of an online and offline system employed for efficient management of the day to day affairs in a school or an educational institution. It is a strategically developed manual and digital education platform that collectively brings all important stakeholders in education together for increased student learning outcomes.
A school management system consists of end-to-end digital solutions for education, administration, marketing, training of professionals and various other major or minor necessities required for running a school successfully.
It enables an educational institution in managing routine academic and managerial activities like conducting online classes or hybrid classes, maintaining attendance, online fees payment, managing admissions, submitting assignments and homework, developing lesson plans, and many more with efficiency and simplicity.
A unique feature of a school management system is that it digitizes and smoothens conducting of all day-to-day affairs in school which allows each organ of the school to function autonomously and independently.
In short, the workload of the schools’ employees can be reduced and various critical tasks can be accomplished without much time or effort in a hassle-free manner.
Reasons for why a School Management System is important for your school
1. Academic Reasons
A school management system is equipped with a variety of features that simplify day-to-day academic activities in the school.
Through its digital education platform, teachers can easily conduct both online and offline classes, access course materials, develop curriculum, computerize calculation of marks and grades, record attendance of students, create class time tables, interact with students for doubt solving and manage various other academic activities of the class.
This also simplifies giving personalized attention to students with special needs.
The burden of education on students is drastically reduced by incorporating these digital solutions for education. They can easily attend classes, access their report cards, learn using the latest technology, interact with teachers through discussion forums, submit online attendance, access the library, and submit assignments.
In addition to that, access is also provided for critical materials for studies and previous term reports to measure their performance.
For the school’s management arduous administrative tasks like exam management, communication with parents, keeping records of student progress, generating reports for assessments, communicating with all stakeholders regarding school activities, and informing students with respect to sports and cultural events in the school become easy.
2. Administrative Reasons
Digital education platforms also reduce the burden on a school’s management in managing everyday activities that allow them to focus on the growth and development of the school.
The communication between the school administration, teachers, parents and students is strengthened and simplified through a school management system. Additionally, all critical information can be stored in a central system that decreases the chances of redundancy.
Managing manual accounts of inventories of schools is laborious. Through a school management platform managing critical inventories like library reports, canteen charts, laboratory equipment and many other become smooth and effortless.
The workload on the school’s administrative team is also reduced by automation of various tasks like fees collection, bulk data management, ID card generation, payslip and payroll generation of teachers
and staff, examination management, keeping records of increase and decrease in admissions, and many more.
Real-time updates are also available regarding the transport system that increases student safety and provides comfort to the parents regarding school’s safety measures in the transport system. Maintenance calendars for vehicles can also be easily created through a school management system.
Other tasks like amenities management, staff management, interaction with all stakeholders, and student performance assessments can be performed effortlessly.
A digital education platform also enables school management staff who have multiple schools to supervise and monitor the affairs of all schools simultaneously without having to manually record inventories, admission statistics, fees collection, admissions count and a bunch of other things.
Final Remarks…
A school management system is a definitive answer to the ongoing debate on educational problems and solutions with its unique features that simplify academic, administrative, and managerial tasks involved in day-to-day school management.
These are just a few of the many benefits which schools can avail from a school management system. For a live demonstration of an end-to-end school management platform get in touch with our team at the P4.