make skool-be-ez with SkoolBeez
Notes from inside the hive.
What we are building, what schools told us to change and the occasional thing we got wrong. Written by the people doing the work.
Placeholder posts. Real writing lands here once the blog is signed off.
One student record, many products
Why every Skoolbeez product is a complete system on its own, and what actually gets shared when a school runs two.
Read the post →Three weeks to live: how a rollout actually runs
Week one is the import, week two the configuration, week three the staff room. What goes wrong in each.
Read the post →Single sign-on for schools, without the enterprise tax
SSO is normal in every industry except this one. Here is how we built it so a school of forty staff can switch it on in an afternoon.
Read the post →What clerks asked for when we finally listened
Forty visits, one notebook and the eleven changes that came out of it. Most of them took an afternoon.
Read the post →Reporting that adds up
Attendance, fees and results in one view, and why that is a data problem long before it is a dashboard problem.
Read the post →An engine under the comb: introducing AIEIS
Early warnings, plain summaries and questions answered in your own words, all from the record you already keep.
Read the post →Why we hire slowly
A small team that answers the phone beats a large one that routes it. What that costs us, and what it buys schools.
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