Education
EduPlus — A school's operating system, admission to report card
A school management system covering admission through to report card, live at eduplus.co.ke.
eduplus.co.ke
The problem it was built for
Most schools do not lack systems. They have several — admissions in one place, fees in another, marks in a third, and the parent contact list in somebody's phone. Each works well enough on its own. The cost lands at the joins, where a bursar reconciles by hand what two systems should have agreed on automatically.
Software sold into Kenyan schools has often been adapted from a foreign curriculum after the fact, which shows up exactly where it hurts most: in grading and in reporting, the two things a school is judged on.
One student record
Admissions, academics, finance, communication and reporting sit behind a single student record. A learner admitted in January is the same record that carries fee balances, assessment results and the report card at the end of term — not a name retyped into four systems that slowly diverge.
The practical effect is that a question like "has this learner cleared fees, and how are they doing" is one lookup rather than a reconciliation.
Built for CBC, not adapted to it
Kenya's Competency-Based Curriculum reports differently from the system it replaced: performance is expressed against competencies and strands rather than collapsed into a single aggregate mark. Software built around an aggregate mark can be made to display CBC output, but the shape is wrong underneath, and it shows the moment a school needs a report card that reflects how it actually assesses.
EduPlus's grading and report cards are built for competency-based reporting directly. Fee collection is likewise built for the way Kenyan schools actually bill and report, rather than retrofitted.