School Management Information System

The Present, the Challenge
Nigeria today is gradually developing into Africa’s business hub, bringing more people and more businesses everyday into its cities. Nigeria of Today is faced with challenges that emanates from globalization e.g. traffic, urban congestions and poor environmental conditions. Unfortunately, you are not left out. Today, parents have less time, schools are overburdened, and students are less motivated.

The Future, Today
But digital technology is helping solving the lack of dynamic management of school activities by participating parties of school administrators, students, teachers and parents through the introduction of various embedded school information management systems. One of such system is schoolnigeria, a web based school management system developed by Hisplus Systems Limited in Nigeria; It is a solution for integrating and seamlessly managing schools processes, functions and resources. www.schoolnigeria.com integrates all aspects of your school management (i.e. School Administration, Teachers, Parents, Students and Prospects) having the following features;

• View/Take Attendance
• Report Cards
• Homework Assignment
• Discussion Forum
• Tuition Management
• Manage Students
• Mass Email
• Bulk SMS
• Manage Teachers
• Discipline
• Exams and Tests

Various entity functions include
 
 School can:

1. Seamlessly Manage Student Information.
2. Reduce management Cost and Increase Performance.
3. Communicate Student Information via SMS, emails to Parents and Teachers (all in one Place).
4. Monitor Student Performance and Parent Need (all in one Place).
5. Manage parent inquiries, needs and complains.
6. Increase Management efficiency.
7. Manage more than one campus in one place.

Parents Can:

1. Make Inquiries about School Facilities worldwide.
2. Communicate student needs to  teachers through the school
3. Monitor performance of wards (cheek assignments and class performance, print report cards etc.)
4. Inquire about school holidays, special programs, and facilities.

Teachers Can:

1. Access Automated student attendance
2. Use  the seamless computerized grade management application
3. Send homework’s and assignment to students any ware, anytime.
4. Spend more time actually teaching the students
5. Interact efficiently and effectively with parents

Student Can:

1. Interaction with teachers, parents and peers
2. Can submit homework’s online
3. Access to timetable, marks, grades and examination schedule any ware, anytime.
4. Publish articles and views, and participate in discussion forums
5. Freedom to browse through library books catalogue and identify the book(s) to be issued
6. Get adequate  information about school events and holidays

Other  extended features are

• E-Library
• Biometrics Registration
• Chat/Video Conference
• E-Exam
• Web Form SMS

Unfortunately most schools don't take advantage of these school integrated systems because of the fear of unknown and also because most are still use to manual or segregated school management operations.