School Management System

Education system outlines the backbone of every nation. Technology can play a very crucial role in streamlining the whole system of education. Exploring the technological approach to education, streamlining education process and spiraling acquaintance amongst students, staff, parents and management becomes essential for today's fast growing educational environment.

Today's schools need to manage more information than ever before. Without a solid internal infrastructure for teachers, administrators and departments to share data, critical school and student information can be lost, or worse — communicated incorrectly — leading to a host of problems that can affect your school's image and endurance. To remain competitive, school needs a simple solution that can run individual functions, connect their entire operation, use the web as a key communication tool and simplify day-to-day operational responsibilities, giving staff more time with students.

SQUINAL automates various scheduling activities of a school and optimizes the use of premium resources. Concerned authorities can now easily and seamlessly use the system to create timetables, otherwise a time consuming and tedious task.

The solution, an open source system providing Web based interface, has been especially designed considering the challenges schools come across. Some of these challenges are low cost of ownership, mediocre IT infrastructure, skill set level requirements, resource optimization, parent-student-teacher community interaction, security, and stability. Emphasis has been given on easy-to-use interfaces. The menu-driven screens have detailed explanations and offer several options. The users need not be programmers or database experts to benefit from this system.

In addition to automating creation of timetables, a school can use the application to computerize various other activities such as the examinations process, grading system, fee payment, student attendance, library usage, and news and event management. The application also provides Web based interaction facility to parents, teachers, and students.