School Management Software

Dhaka Model Academy had grown to 12,480 students across two campuses while still running on paper registers and a patchwork of Excel files. Attendance was reconstructed at the end of each month, fee dues were discovered late, and the accounts office fielded a constant stream of parent phone calls.

The leadership had tried two off-the-shelf products previously. Both were abandoned because teachers found them slower than paper — the systems assumed a desktop computer and a spare ten minutes that no teacher has between periods.

We began with two days of classroom observation rather than a requirements form. The critical insight was that adoption depended entirely on the attendance flow: if a teacher could not mark a class in under fifteen seconds on a phone, nothing else in the system would ever be used.

We built attendance as a mobile-first, offline-capable screen, then layered the rest of the platform behind it — fee collection with bKash and Nagad, exam processing to the school's own grading scheme, and a parent SMS pipeline triggered by attendance and result events.

Historical student and fee records going back four years were migrated and reconciled before go-live, so the system launched with real history rather than an empty database.

Attendance is now recorded live in every period, with absentee SMS reaching parents before mid-morning. Fee collection moved from a month-end scramble to a continuously visible figure, and the collection cycle shortened by roughly 40%.

The accounts office reports around twelve hours a week returned to actual work rather than answering status calls, because parents can now see dues and results themselves.