Smart School Management Platform

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Digitizing Education Operations: A SaaS Platform for Private Schools

About project

A centralized web-based platform that helps private schools and learning centers manage students, lessons, staff, finances, and attendance in a scalable and user-friendly environment.

Challenge

The client — a mid-sized private education group — operated across several branches and struggled with disconnected spreadsheets, manual coordination, and lack of transparency between staff and families.

Their goals:

  • Unify data across students, staff, and branches
  • Automate lesson scheduling, teacher assignments, and class attendance
  • Track financial performance and streamline staff compensation
  • Improve oversight without growing the admin team
  • Provide parents with accurate visibility into student activity
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Solution

1. Web Platform with Multi-Role Access

We built a web-first SaaS platform with scalable architecture and the following modules:

  • Student Management: profiles, lesson history, attendance records
  • Parent Dashboard: linked children, performance tracking, visit logs
  • Lesson Scheduling: time, branch, instructor, room, and class type
  • Room Management: occupancy, allocation, and branch control
  • Staff Management: titles, role-based access, and individual compensation models
  • Revenue Tracking: lesson-based payments, filtered by teacher/branch
  • Motivation System: configurable bonus calculations based on branch income contribution
  • Attendance Logs: searchable visit records per student and teacher
  • Reports: revenue overview, lesson counts, skip rates, filterable by time or branch

The first version was delivered as a web application optimized for desktop use by admins, managers, and back-office staff. A mobile extension for parents and instructors is planned for the next phase.

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Project Team

  • 1 Project Manager
  • 1 UX/UI Designer
  • 2 Full-Stack Developers
  • 1 QA Engineer
  • 1 Data Analyst (BI Consultant)

Tech stack

react
redux
nodejs
postgresql
jwt
aws
docker
nginx

Timeline

Total duration: ~20 weeks

Weeks 1–3

Research, flow design, permission logic

Weeks 4–9

Development of core entities: users, lessons, rooms

Weeks 10–14

Finance modules, motivation logic, attendance workflows

Weeks 15-18

QA, testing by user roles, admin onboarding

Weeks 19-20

Deployment, data migration, go-live

Impact

  • Platform supports over 300 students, 100+ instructors, and dozens of staff members
  • Attendance, payment tracking, and scheduling were fully centralized
  • Admin team reduced daily coordination tasks by ~40%
  • Staff compensation reports are now automated based on lesson activity
  • Leadership gained clearer financial insights by branch and time period
  • Foundation laid for scaling operations and onboarding new branches seamlessly

Business Outcome

The product helped the organization shift from operational chaos to structured, trackable workflows — enabling smarter decisions, better staff accountability, and increased parental satisfaction.