My School Chart, an online school management system has been launched in Kenya. The system converges all administration tasks such as the school grading system, student class attendance, examinations and fee payment.
Created by George Nyakundi, a computer programmer and student at Navarro College in Texas, USA, the creator is the son of two teachers.
“I always feel there is a better way to manage schools after watching his parents Wycliffe and Elizabeth Nyakundi painstakingly compile student records at night year after year,” he said.
“If my mum, a 59-year-old primary school teacher from the rural areas of Borabu in Nyamira can use My School Chart, then any teacher can,” he says.
Already, 200 schools across the country are using the system.
Parent from such schools eliminate unnecessary trips and phone calls to track their children’s performance. Nyakundi says the parents simply visit www.myschoolchart.com where they enter personalised log-in details and track fee payments, performance, attendance and discipline of their children.
“We have created both web and mobile platform for parents to access school information and children’s details,” he says. George developed the system in his student days in Texas. He returned home last year armed with his best gift to Kenyan teachers. “Schools do not have to be a headache for administrators, teachers, students or parents,” he says, over grade books, papers and reports associated with grading,” she says.
My School Chart also automatically updates the parent portal so they can monitor their children’s grades. The principal says the system also generates instant SMS and online receipts when students pay fees and stores a copy in the student file. “Parents no longer have to wait for their children to be sent home for school fees,” he says.
