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Practical guides for setting up a school, running daily classroom workflows, issuing login details, managing reports, and supporting parents and learners.

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School setup

School setup help articles

Getting started for school admins

Use the guided setup hub to turn a new tenant into a usable school workspace.

  1. 1Open School Setup from the admin or principal dashboard.
  2. 2Confirm the school profile, academic year, current term, and contact details.
  3. 3Add classes, subjects, staff, learners, guardians, and guardian links.
  4. 4Run a data quality scan and resolve critical blockers before issuing credentials.
  5. 5Generate login cards or send dry-run/live login details once records are ready.

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Set up the school profile

The profile controls school identity, report defaults, academic period labels, and file settings.

  1. 1Open School Settings.
  2. 2Update the school name, code, province, academic year, and current term.
  3. 3Add contact email and phone details used by admissions and parent communications.
  4. 4Upload operational files such as logos, signatures, and report assets through File Upload.
  5. 5Save changes and return to the setup hub to refresh readiness.

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Records

Records help articles

Add learners, guardians, staff, classes, and subjects

Records are the source of truth for every learning, attendance, reporting, and communication workflow.

  1. 1Open Records and use the tabs for Learners, Guardians, Staff, Classes, Subjects, Login Cards, and Import/Export.
  2. 2Create subjects before classes when possible, then link each class to its subject and room.
  3. 3Create learners and guardians, then link guardians to the correct learners.
  4. 4Create staff accounts with the correct role, title, email, and phone number.
  5. 5Use CSV Import/Export for larger setup batches and preview before committing rows.

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Access

Access help articles

Issue login cards and login details

Generate printable learner and guardian login cards or distribute details through configured channels.

  1. 1Open Records, then Login Cards.
  2. 2Select a learner and generate login details.
  3. 3Print login cards for physical handover, or send SMS/email if the provider is configured.
  4. 4Use dry-run output in local/staging environments to confirm content before live sending.
  5. 5Ask users to change temporary passwords after first sign-in where the account policy requires it.

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Daily teaching

Daily teaching help articles

Taking attendance as a teacher

Teachers can capture daily or period attendance for assigned classes from the Attendance workspace.

  1. 1Open Attendance.
  2. 2Create or select a register for the correct class, date, and attendance type.
  3. 3Use quick capture to mark learners present, absent, late, excused, or left early.
  4. 4Add reasons or notes for absences where needed.
  5. 5Submit the register when complete. Submitted changes are audit logged.

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Create homework and mark submissions

The Learning workspace covers homework, learner submissions, teacher feedback, and marks.

  1. 1Open Assignments from the teacher menu.
  2. 2Create homework with a class, subject, instructions, due date, and max mark.
  3. 3Review submitted learner work in the submissions panel.
  4. 4Add marks and feedback, then save. Families can view marked feedback where permissions allow.
  5. 5Use Reports or Gradebook when assessment marks need to feed report cards.

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Reports

Reports help articles

Capture marks and generate reports

Gradebook entries drive report cards, report averages, moderation, and PDF exports.

  1. 1Open Reports or Gradebook from the teacher or leadership menu.
  2. 2Capture or edit gradebook marks from the available forms.
  3. 3Generate report cards for the selected term and academic year.
  4. 4Submit, review, approve, and publish reports according to the role workflow.
  5. 5Download individual or bulk report PDFs once reports are ready.

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Report templates and PDFs

School admins and principals can configure branded templates used by generated PDF reports.

  1. 1Open Reports as a school admin, principal, or deputy principal.
  2. 2Use Template Designer to set the template name, type, colours, header, footer, and field toggles.
  3. 3Upload a PNG or JPEG principal signature file in Settings if a signature image is needed.
  4. 4Select the signature image in the template and choose the visible report sections.
  5. 5Save the template as default so generated PDFs use the school branding.

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Families

Families help articles

Parent and learner access rules

Parents see linked children only, while learners see their own homework, quizzes, messages, and reports where allowed.

  1. 1Confirm guardian links in Records before sharing parent login details.
  2. 2Use the parent dashboard to check linked child homework, gradebook, reports, attendance, and messages.
  3. 3Use learner accounts for homework submissions, quizzes, and learner-visible feedback.
  4. 4If a parent cannot see a child, check the learner-guardian link and data quality scan.
  5. 5Do not share staff dashboards with parents or learners.

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Communications

Communications help articles

Announcements, messages, and SMS

Communications includes announcements, conversations, SMS campaigns, and notification-related workflows.

  1. 1Open Messages from the dashboard or Communications from the workspace.
  2. 2Draft and publish announcements for the intended audience.
  3. 3Use conversations for parent, learner, and staff threads.
  4. 4Create SMS campaigns only when the recipient audience is correct and the provider mode is understood.
  5. 5Dry-run delivery is expected unless live credentials are configured.

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Operations

Operations help articles

Use data quality checks

Data quality scans help identify missing guardians, invalid phone numbers, missing classes, and reporting blockers.

  1. 1Open Data Quality or run a scan from School Setup.
  2. 2Review open critical and warning issues first.
  3. 3Use the fix links to jump to the related record or workflow.
  4. 4Mark issues resolved only after the underlying data has been corrected.
  5. 5Run another scan before onboarding families or publishing reports.

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Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting help articles

Troubleshoot sign-in and permissions

Most access issues come from the wrong role, missing guardian links, expired credentials, or trying to open a blocked route.

  1. 1Confirm the user is signing in with the correct email and the latest temporary password.
  2. 2Check the user's role in Staff, Learners, or Guardians.
  3. 3For parents, confirm the guardian is linked to the learner.
  4. 4For teachers, confirm the class or subject assignment exists.
  5. 5If a route redirects unexpectedly, sign out and sign in as the intended role.

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