Tuesday, 17 February 2015

CCE Software

CBSE introduced the CCE (Continuous and comprehensive evaluation) system in the year 2009, which  brought in a lot of change in education system of Indian schools. It is true that it has benefited all the students by shifting the focus towards evaluating overall competency of the student rather than just evaluating the student's academic performance and exam writing skills.

With the introduction of CCE system, it has also necessitated the schools and the teaching fraternity to be ready with a full year teaching plan and setting up the evaluation criteria for activities that they are going to use for students' evaluation. If planned in advance carefully and used wisely through the year, it can really help the teachers in their pedagogy, not only the students. For this, mostly schools take help of a good CCE software which can in-turn help the teachers to plan, record and evaluate the students results as per CCE pattern as recommended by CBSE. Managing it through the software not only helps the teachers to take the print of their evaluation plan fed into the software by them for any reference, but also principal or the management can see their staff's performance and timelines with respect to their planned activities.

 A CCE software helps the teachers to save the whole year evaluation plan and recording the students' score as and when these examination/activities are held. A good CCE software automatically keeps creating the grades and weighed score as per each exam's set weightage (As per CBSE guidelines). The automatically generated Grade Statement and Marks statement reports can be used as a reference to every students' performance in the Parent-Teachers Meeting (PTM).

When done with all the activities/exams evaluation, the CCE software is capable to generate the class-wise Grade statement (Shows only the final grades obtained by students in the given exam) and detailed Marks-statement (Shows the marks breakup of the activities in each exam along with grades). These tabulation reports when generated automatically through the CCE software saves a lot of time as compared to the time taken by teachers to generate it manually. Co-scholastic grades can also be automatically calculated by the teachers using the CCE software.

At the end of the session, CCE software also generates the final report card in any desired format to be used by the schools for distribution, which includes the scholastic and co-scholastic grades of each students along with the attendance percentage.

A Screenshot of Report Card generated through the CCE Software:


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Monday, 16 February 2015

Essential components of a good school management software - Must to know

What are the essential components of a school management software?

Although the essential components required in a school management software depends on the school and the management. But there is some basic functionality which is must-to-have in any school management solution. These basic features are:
      
  1. It should have a robust and comprehensive student and staff database recording system,
  2. It should have the dynamicity to add and delete roles and various access rights to different roles
  3. Weather it is an offline school management software or an online solution, it should have proper back-up policy
  4. It should be highly secured and tamper-proof
  5. It should have all basic modules/features:
These basic features are
  • Role based logins (For e.g. teachers, admin and principal etc.)
  • Student Database Management
  • Staff Database management
  • Class, sections and subject structure definition
  • Subjects and Teacher Association
  • Grading and Marking system (As per the School boards)
  • Fee and Accounts Management (Optional yet recommended)
  • Attendance and Leave Management (Optional)
  • Timetable Management (Optional)
  • Payroll Management (Optional)
  • Parents online interface (Optional)
  • SMS/Email connectivity (Optional)
  1. Last but not the least, is support system. No software can sustain without a robust and prompt support system at the back end. Hence it is advisable to look in detail, what support model one provides and how the routine operational and technical issues are addressed. Having a timely and friendly support system doubles the value of any school management software

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What is a school management software

What is a School Management Software? why it is required?


School management software is an interface through which school staff can manage their specific tasks which revolve around a student’s life-cycle. Be it an academic or a non-academic activity, an ideal school management software is capable of automating the whole process life-cycle of that task/activity. Automation of any process consists of four essential parts. Any software, if structured in such a way to meet the following criteria would sustain any kind of automation requirement of any industry.
  • A centralized and relational system to contain the databases
  • A role based interface to access the centralized system
  • A user-friendly entry point to make the day-to-day transactions
  • Strong and comprehensive Reporting system
Note: Like any other industry, schools too have a high volume of data to maintain pertaining to the students, staff and curriculum. Besides this, the school staffs have to perform various robotic and formula based tasks quite frequently, like result generation by teachers, Generation of financial statements by Account Deptt, Attendance Records and many other such tasks and reports.In the age of RTI, School have to maintain the years old data of all the students. A Software without any failure helps the school authorities to maintain this data in digital form.
Hence an effective school management software is required to cater to all such requirements which will help teachers and other staff to perform their stereotypical duties with ease and will help them to focus on their core tasks and thus making the whole institution more productive.

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