1. Why Technology is important

In today’s era, technology is an integral part of our daily life. No one can imagine life without technology. At the start of this decade none of us think of getting all the daily essential things at just over click. Technology is something which evolves over the period of time in every segment of human life. Educational institutions are not an exception. Every educational institution like Schools, Colleges, and Universities has to change their approach and will inculcate technology into their routine work. Henceforth, the importance of an effective school management solution is always a top priority for these institutions.

School authorities all across are engaged in a lot of day to day administrative and academic tasks to manage and provide a better academic experience to the student. A need for a better school management system is very much required to keep pace with the current cut-throat competition. However, maintaining and keeping track of school administrative activities is not an easy process without implementing technology. It requires hard work and often it is time-consuming.

2. How Technology Helps Educational institutions.

School management systems is a system that eases the workload of the different stakeholders in the schools and colleges and provides a digital platform to perform all the work efficiently and also ensures a uniformity in reporting. With the advent of a school management system, all the departments of the school are synchronised consequently, from the administrative point of view all the details pertaining to every department are available to the management just over a click. The school authorities can make the policies pertaining to different departments. School administration leveraging technology that will help them to access the student’s overall growth both in scholastic and co-scholastic areas. At the same time parents are also aware of the daily happenings in the school. In today’s era, effective parent teacher communication is very important. A School management software helps schools to establish an effective and impactful communication with the parents which is efficacious in creating a good brand. With the help of technology, schools can set the KRA’s of every employee. A good school management software will help schools to ensure all the employees perform their assigned task on time. It also enables schools to see a comparative analytics year on year basis.  

Every school emphasizes enhancing the admission year on year basis. To enhance their presence into the industry they follow many promotional activities like promotion on google AdWords, hoardings, News paper advertisement. These all-promotional activities have their own financial implications. To ensure all the promotional activities yield value and generate results, school management software helps. It gives a comparative analytics of admission year on year basis. A good school management solution also has provision of providing an most effective source of promotion that yields maximum result and least cost.

Attendance, homework, discipline, grades and achievements! Every information that is related to students can be easily accessed using a school management system. It helps teachers to quickly obtain information about students fast and easily, reducing their workload. Student profile in a school management software contains every information about students for example their examination grades, parental information, medical history, details related to school fee, etc. Many Schools management systems offer real-time information and announcements through SMS and app to app communication through mobile apps. Mobile application is the replica of software and provides maximum details over a click. Parents can pay their ward’s fee from the mobile application. This also increases the remittances at the school end.

3. Functionalities of an effective school management Software.

Effective Communication
A better school management software is considered to be one which establishes an end to end communication with the parents and the school official. Parents should have an accessibility of day to day happening related to their ward. With the help of a good school software, parents can see the homework & assignments given by school and can also see the diary notes made by my school. To sum up, schools can provide regular updates through a software notification system.

Effective task management
The most productive people on Earth aren’t superheroes. They have the same number of hours in their day as we do, and often find ways to work far fewer hours, too. How do they do it? When we were struggling to stay on top of our new responsibilities, we were asking the same question. Over time, with the advent of good management software we discovered task management techniques, to-do list apps, off social media to focus on work that matters. A school management software helps schools to set up the KRA’s of every staff member. Based on the KRA set by the management, software will enable the school to ensure that every employee performs tasks efficiently.

Transparency
The aim of a good school management software is to bring transparency and ensure greater coordination among all departments of the schools. Since, the only aim of a school management software is to bring all the departments under one single umbrella, it is very easy for the school to improvise on any concerns that hamper the overall growth of the organization. From parents’ perspective, they can access the daily child attendance in the school. A well established school management software often brings transparency which in turn increases the safety and security at the school end.

Student performance Analytics
Many Schools management systems offer detailed student performance analytics. From the Examination, Grade, Attendance detail these solutions provide in-depth analytics of an overall student’s performance in Sports, Academic, Extracurricular activities. Some of the available school software also captures the behavioural changes of the student over the period of time. This will enable the teachers to take corrective action at the right time to ensure a child’s overall development.

4.     Some Important Key contemplatio

Some of the important considerations before finalization of any ERP Solution.
An ERP implementation is a journey and can’t happen overnight. So, while making a decision to implement an ERP solution school should be double sure related to credentials of the company. In the past few years many companies’ windup their operation because they wouldn’t be able to scale up their operation. These should be considered while subscribing to any company.

Customisation Needs, the school also thinks of their requirements and should opt for those companies which fulfil the maximum requirements. At the same time, companies also should be flexible enough to accommodate any small changes at every level of automation. Process automation is the way by which schools can automate their manual work.

A good school management software should be flexible enough to integrate with any outsourced devices like School Website, Biometric Machines, RFID for attendance, tally for the accounting needs. These all integrations are very much important for the school to utilize the software in a better way which in turn can ensure a better reporting to the top management.

To sum up, A school management software offers flexibility of working and extracting exact outcomes as expected by the management