The Challenge
Institutions were running academic and administrative processes through a mix of tools that did not share data, so course scheduling, enrolment, fees, attendance and grading each held their own version of the truth and reporting meant reconciling them by hand.
Courses timetabled without enrolment in view.
Payments tracked separately from registration.
Analysis assembled from several systems each time.
Students, staff and faculty told in different ways.
Approach & Solution
smartData built the platform as flexible, scalable software-as-a-service so that a small training provider and a multi-faculty institution both run on it, each paying a monthly or annual subscription for the feature set they configure rather than for a bespoke implementation of their own.
Course scheduling, registration, fee collection, attendance, grading and analytics all sit on one data model, and faculty, staff and administrators work through the same web platform, with announcements and messaging carried in it rather than alongside it.
Key Features
Timetables built against real enrolment.
Enrolment and payment handled as one flow.
Academic progress recorded against the student.
One channel for students, faculty and staff.
Product Showcase
Final Outcome
Administrative workflow runs end to end instead of in stages, data accuracy improves because there is only one record to maintain, and communication between students, faculty and administrators happens in the system that holds the facts.
