School profile and branding

Sidebar → School setup. Requires the settings permission — in practice, a School Administrator.

School setup has three tabs — School profile, Academic Calendar and the Activity log. School profile is one page with a list of its sections down the side — click one to jump to it. Everything on the tab saves together with the bar that appears at the bottom; a dot beside a section in the list shows where your unsaved changes are.

Identity

Your school's name, motto, logo, sign-in background photo and brand colours — the one thing worth completing before you print anything. It feeds:

• the header of every report card
• every receipt you issue
• the sign-in page your staff, students and parents see
• the parent and student portals

Logos are resized in your browser before upload, so a photo straight off a phone is fine.

Brand colours re-tint the console and the portals. Pick something with enough contrast against white — the report card and receipts are printed in black and white as often as not.

Sign-in background photo appears behind the sign-in page. Optional, but it is the first thing a parent sees.

Contact & location

Region, district education office, circuit (only when it is printed on report cards — see below), postal address, phone and email. These are printed in report-card headers and fee statements.

Student IDs & registration

How new student IDs are built (prefix, year and a padded number), and which optional questions appear on the student registration form. Turning off what you do not collect makes enrolment faster, and you can turn a question back on later without losing anything already entered.

Preset & policies

• Preset — the kind of school you set up as. Change preset… lists the presets; picking one shows exactly what it changes (currency, grading, registration questions and more) before anything is saved.
• Currency — what amounts are displayed in
• Minimum attendance — the percentage below which a student is flagged as at risk
• Teacher weekly load — the most periods a teacher should have each week, shown in Timetable › Setup
• Exam index numbers, Circuit on report cards and the staff Ghana Card and SSNIT fields — each says where it shows up

Guardian messages

Shown only when your school has the SMS add-on: choose email or SMS for each automated guardian message. A change here saves straight away.