How School Management Software can help to Grow your School Business?

If you are the owner of a group of institutions, you would have surely come across difficulties in leading the existing business and growing more business. With the help of good management strategies and good school management software that supports multiple school accounts, you can work more efficiently. A school chain business has multiple verticles spread across operations, administrations, academics, and finance. And if you are a for-profit, the marketing vertical will also demand your attention. With the help of a school management software, you can automate and optimize these verticals and get valuable insights in the form of reports and alerts which you can use to make the right decision making at the right time.

There are multiple groups of institutions globally using the multischool solution of Fedena and while working with the leadership team at these different groups we learned many lessons. Following are some of the smart ways multischool school management software can help you in scaling the school business. These we learned from other leaders and hope will help your business too.

Below we have mentioned the top 7 smart ways a school management software can help to grow your school business:

1. Helps the central team in charge of the scaleup strategy.

A school management software with the GOD level is access is a must for the central team who runs the leadership role in operating and growing the overall business. This team should have a CIO(Chief Information Officer) role with the responsibilities of setting up and managing the digital transformation aspect of the business. CIO with access to the school management system provides the reports and data for decision making by the CEO and Chairman of the business. It can provide various consolidated reports instantly for the leadership team.

2. Customizable according to the diverse needs

The school management software allows customization according to the diverse requirements coming from independent schools. The different schools under the same group might be operating on different systems and processes, and might be accredited to different standards. The customized and properly configured software can handle and club all these diverse requirements. This helps you maintain diversity even while keeping the core structure and reporting standardized across schools

3. Open new digital-ready schools instantly

Once a customized solution is in place, you are ready to start new schools that are digital-first. Just create a new instance of the software for the school you are starting and configure according to the type of school. Since the digital-ready schools are operated online from day one, there will be no resistance to change which is the usual challenge with the digital transformation of an offline school. The leadership team has to just provide the credentials, training, and checklists to operate the software.

4. Increase student enrolment with marketing automation 

The marketing modules available with the school management software can help the leadership team in improving student enrolment every year. With Fedena multischool, there is a fully-fledged inquiry module and applicant registration module. These two modules along with the admission management module work as the best CRM tool for school marketing. You will get all necessary reports to analyze the admission trends across campaigns, geography, and source. You can customize the solution further according to the unique requirements of the business strategy.

5. Automate & optimize human resource management

Teacher engagement and performance is a well-known secret behind the success of any school. In a group of institutions, there will be teachers across multiple schools and some schools will have the best teachers and other schools will lag in the quality of teachers. With the school management software, you can generate the reports and take necessary actions. Also, find out the salary trends across schools. You can also customize the software to enable strategies like teacher transfer between schools.

6. Automate academic excellence management

Similar to the teachers’ data you can consolidate the student academics performance across different schools. Find all trends in student grade book performance and analyze it by comparing it with teacher performance. You might come across interesting patterns to act upon and maybe some random discovery that can change your business forever.

7. Optimize administration management

One of the major time-consuming tasks for school business is the management of infrastructure and facilities. The leadership team can automate and optimize these activities by configuring and customizing the school management software according to properly. And then training the administration team heads to use the software. You can integrate the software with other specialized third-party software tools like accounting software, canteen management, etc. to improve the insights and automation further.

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