School-IMS Certified Administrator

What the bundle contains, the order it teaches in, and why School-IMS Essentials comes first.

• The Complete Credential, and How It Is Organised Preview · 14 min

Before anything else works, the school tells School-IMS who it is and how to behave: the School Information screen, General Preferences (19 settings, 7 tabs, plus the huge Allowed-Modules checklist), currencies, mail/API integrations, and custom fields.

• Editing School Information Preview · 16 min
• General Preferences: 19 settings, 7 tabs, and everything they unlock Preview · 24 min
• Currencies, Mail Providers and School API Keys · 18 min
• Custom Fields: capturing what the standard form doesn't · 20 min

The academic calendar is the school's master timeline — timetable, fee billing and report cards all key off it. This module covers term dates, holidays and events, term/session names, and the 8-phase year-end transition.

• The Academic Calendar: terms, holidays, events and exam periods Preview · 18 min
• Term and Session Names · 12 min
• The Academic Year Transition, phase by phase · 24 min

The academic organisational backbone — verified against a real 22-class roster, a real subject-teacher assignment, and a real 8-department list that turns out to be much simpler than the guide's richer claims.

• Classes: types, groups and the class itself Preview · 20 min
• Class Pupil Transfer: promoting, moving and merging classes · 20 min
• Subjects and assigning teachers to them · 16 min
• Departments: the real screen, and the guide's richer claims · 14 min

Building the school week — real period times, the real Auto-Generate Timetable screen and its confirmation toggle — then setting up a formal examination on top of it.

• Periods, days and timetable entries Preview · 18 min
• Auto-generating a timetable — and keeping it running · 22 min
• Setting up an examination: timetable, venues, seating, invigilation · 20 min

Who can sign in and what they can do — the staff-first rule, a real privilege-template list that settles the guide's biggest internal disagreement, and the audit trail behind every action.

• Registering a user: the staff-first rule Preview · 16 min
• Roles and privileges: the guide's five different answers · 22 min
• The Activity Log: reading the audit trail · 18 min

Every adult who works at the school, on one 5-tab form — verified with real staff names — plus the two competing models the guide gives for how staff clock in and out.

• Registering and managing staff Preview · 20 min
• Staff Time Attendance: four screens, two competing models · 16 min
• Worked scenario: onboarding a new teacher, start to finish · 18 min

For schools with more than one site — the real, simple Register Branch screen, the 110-setting Branch Preferences override, and standing up a second campus end to end.

• Registering a branch Preview · 14 min
• Branch-specific preferences and inter-branch transfers · 18 min
• Worked scenario: standing up a second campus · 16 min

The three catalogues every other module draws from — a real 23+ item fee list, a real dual grading scale, and a real behavioural-entry model that surprises both guide pages that describe it.

• The fee catalogue Preview · 18 min
• Score grades: a scale with no gaps and no overlaps · 18 min
• Behavioural entries, and preparing a new term end to end · 20 min

Everything the school sends automatically or in bulk — gateway setup, the real Automation Rules builder, six real published announcements, and moving data in and out.

• Email and SMS gateway configuration Preview · 16 min
• Automation rules: trigger, condition, action · 20 min
• Announcements and the communication hub · 16 min
• Data import and export · 16 min

The real, verified Gate & Visitors screen — simpler than any single guide page describes, but with a pupil gate-pass feature none of them mention at all — plus the blacklist and lockdown procedures.

• Registering a visitor, and the gate pass Preview · 18 min
• The blacklist and emergency lockdown · 16 min
• Worked scenario: a full visitor day, sign-out to reconciliation · 16 min

Boarding and buses — the real Transport screen, and a real screenshot that settles, once and for all, which of the guide's three incompatible hostel hierarchies is actually true.

• Transport: routes, vehicles and pupil assignment Preview · 16 min
• Hostel: the guide's three hierarchies, and which one is real Preview · 22 min
• Worked scenario: allocating a boarder and linking the fee · 16 min

Where physical items live, what happens when everything needs to be undone, the screens even this course could not verify — and a closing checklist tying the whole course together.

• Stores: registering locations vs. tracking items Preview · 14 min
• Backups and Super-Admin Tasks: what's verified, what isn't · 20 min
• Worked scenario: a new administrator's first month · 18 min

The two foundations everything else in HR sits on: the position/salary-grade structure staff are assigned to, and the pay periods payroll runs against.

• Positions and salary grades Preview · 16 min
• Pay periods, and the hand-off to Finance · 16 min

The twelve-screen Payroll v2 sub-module end to end: the run workflow, the real Prepare/Execute screen, approvals and reversals, off-cycle and retro pay, timesheets, advances, and the bank/PFA export schedules.

• Payroll v2: screens at a glance and the 7-step run workflow Preview · 18 min
• Worked scenario: Prepare/Execute Payroll Schedules, start to finish · 20 min
• Reviewing, approving, reversing and off-cycle pay · 18 min
• Timesheets, salary advances and the bank/PFA export schedules · 18 min

PAYE, pension, NHF, NSITF, ITF and NHIS — configuration, calculation, remittance — including the guide's own internal disagreement on the pension rate.

• The Nigerian statutory framework — and a rate the guide gets wrong Preview · 18 min
• Calculating PAYE, step by step · 18 min
• Remittance tracking, annual returns, and the real cost-model formula · 18 min

Two guide models for the same sub-module — a simple 5-screen version and a richer 13-screen ATS — resolved against the real, live Pipeline Kanban, plus requisitions, screening, interviews and the hire/convert step.

• Two guide models, one real screen: the requisition-to-hire pipeline Preview · 20 min
• Requisitions, postings and screening applicants · 18 min
• Worked scenario: interviews, offers and the hire/convert step · 18 min

Initiating onboarding on the real screen, a genuine source cross-mislabelling between two "checklist" screenshots corrected, and probation setup through confirmation.

• Initiating onboarding, and how checklist due dates are actually computed Preview · 18 min
• Checklist Templates and My Checklist Items — a source mix-up, corrected · 16 min
• Worked scenario: probation setup, review and confirmation · 20 min

Contract types and renewal, transfers and promotions (found only in one guide page), and a verified exit-to-reference-letter workflow with real business rules and real ex-staff.

• Contracts, renewal and the two-guide-page split on lifecycle Preview · 18 min
• Transfers and promotions · 16 min
• Worked scenario: exit, final settlement and the reference letter · 24 min

Registering devices, enrolling faces, shifts and rosters, staff-to-device mapping, and reading the punch audit trail — twenty screens, verified against three real device/config screens.

• Registering a device, and enrolling a face Preview · 18 min
• Shifts, rosters and staff-to-device mapping · 16 min
• Punch audit, mobile punch and late/overtime review · 20 min

The staff attendance model that sits alongside — and partly overlaps — Administration's own attendance screens, plus disciplinary thresholds and payroll impact.

• Staff Time Attendance, and where it overlaps Administration Preview · 16 min
• Disciplinary thresholds and how attendance reaches payroll · 16 min

Leave types and policy configuration, the three-stage approval chain, balance tracking and the leave calendar — the guide's most internally consistent sub-module.

• Leave types, accrual and pro-rata Preview · 18 min
• Applying for leave and the three-stage approval chain · 18 min
• Worked scenario: a leave request from application to approval · 20 min

Setting goals and KPIs, running a full appraisal cycle — self-assessment, manager review, 360 feedback, calibration — rating scales, PIPs and the link to salary increments.

• Setting goals and KPIs — four field lists, and the real screen Preview · 18 min
• The appraisal cycle: self, manager, 360 and calibration · 20 min
• Worked scenario: building an appraisal template and completing a review cycle · 20 min

Two competing mini-modules for the same feature, resolved toward the richer, screenshot-corroborated Learning model, plus sessions, certifications, CPD tracking and the training budget.

• Learning vs Training: two mini-modules, and which screenshots survived Preview · 18 min
• Sessions, enrolment and certifications · 18 min
• CPD tracking, training budget and reports · 18 min

Filing a grievance on the real screen, issuing a warning and how it reaches the disciplinary record, pulse surveys, and recognition.

• Filing a grievance: what the real screen actually asks Preview · 18 min
• Issuing a warning, and how it reaches the disciplinary record · 18 min
• Pulse surveys and recognition · 20 min

ESS's own "read-mostly" claim contradicted by its own detail page, four documents guide-pages with three treatments and a hard access-control disagreement, and required-documents compliance tracking.

• Employee Self-Service — read-mostly, or not? Preview · 18 min
• Documents and e-signature: four guide pages, one hard contradiction · 22 min
• Worked scenario: required documents, compliance, and retention · 18 min

Resolving index.html's own misdirected cross-reference for Attrition Risk, then headcount, vacancy, succession, position costing and scenario planning on real, verified screens.

• Recognition analytics and the Attrition Risk misdirect, resolved Preview · 18 min
• Headcount, vacancy and succession planning · 20 min
• Closing worked scenario: an HR officer's first month · 20 min

Every screen in Finance eventually posts to the chart of accounts. Get this foundation right and everything downstream — bills, receipts, payroll, expenses — lands in the right place.

• The chart of accounts Preview · 20 min
• Restructuring and closing the books · 17 min
• Journal entries — when to use one, and how to undo one · 19 min

Registering bank accounts correctly, getting cash and cheques into them, taking money out with proper controls, and moving money between them without double-counting.

• Registering and managing bank accounts · 18 min
• Lodgements — getting cash and cheques into the bank · 15 min
• Withdrawals and transfers — moving money out, and between accounts · 18 min

From importing the statement to a finalised, audit-ready reconciliation — the discipline that catches errors, fraud, and everything the bank did that School-IMS doesn't know about yet.

• Preparing to reconcile — importing the statement · 17 min
• Matching — auto, manual, and everything that refuses to match · 20 min
• Finalising, reopening, and the monthly discipline · 16 min

The petty cash imprest cycle from float to replenishment, and the full fixed-asset lifecycle — register, depreciate, maintain, insure, dispose.

• Petty cash — the imprest cycle · 17 min
• Fixed assets — registering and depreciating · 20 min
• Disposing, transferring, and verifying assets · 16 min

The chain that keeps school spending honest: pre-commitment approval, recording the cost, paying it out with segregation of duties, and tagging money to the right fund.

• Requisitions — the pre-commitment control · 16 min
• Recording expenses correctly · 18 min
• Payment vouchers — from prepare to pay · 20 min
• Fund categories and restricted funds · 15 min

How salary levels and payroll items compute a payslip, running the monthly cycle without surprises, and the statutory obligations that follow.

• Salary levels and payroll items — how pay is built · 18 min
• Running payroll — the monthly cycle · 22 min
• Statutory deductions, payslips and year-end tax obligations · 18 min

The complete fee lifecycle — set a schedule, bulk-bill a class, collect and allocate receipts, reconcile them against the bank, and chase what's still owed. Includes a real, connected worked example carried through every lesson.

• Fee schedules and individual billing · 18 min
• Bulk billing a class — the flagship workflow, part one · 20 min
• Posting and allocating receipts — the flagship workflow, part two · 20 min
• Reconciling fee receipts against the bank — the flagship workflow, part three · 15 min
• Managing debtors · 18 min

VAT and withholding tax as a Nigerian-tenant reference, fiscal e-invoicing as it actually stands on the demo tenant, and building a budget that's genuinely tracked against actuals.

• Tax configuration and fiscal e-invoicing · 20 min
• Budgeting — building, approving, and tracking against actuals · 20 min

The statements every school produces, the dashboard a bursar checks daily, and how to actually answer "can we afford this?" rather than just staring at a surplus figure.

• The core statements — trial balance, P&L, balance sheet, cash flow · 20 min
• The financial dashboard and analytics · 20 min
• Can we afford X this term? — putting it all together · 18 min

Every pupil in School-IMS starts on one screen. This module covers that screen field by field, the record it creates, and the search, bulk and walk-in tools built around it.

• Registering a new pupil, start to finish Preview · 22 min
• The pupil record and its lifecycle · 20 min
• Search, bulk operations and class lists · 18 min
• Walk-in students · 14 min

The Admissions screen manages a structured application pipeline, distinct from both simple registration and intending pupils — from a first enquiry through to an enrolled pupil.

• The Admissions list and the application lifecycle Preview · 18 min
• The nine-stage pipeline in depth · 22 min
• Worked scenario — running an intake from enquiry to enrolled pupil · 16 min

Moving a class or a pupil through the school's structure without breaking their history — plus the ID cards, cumulative records and alumni tracking that document the journey.

• Promoting a class and transferring a pupil Preview · 20 min
• Withdrawals, graduation and transfer certificates · 18 min
• ID cards, certificates, cumulative records and alumni · 22 min

Writing a bill for one pupil or a whole class at once, the billing sub-group's many views, how discounts are actually applied (there is no dedicated discount screen), and the fee-structure screens behind it all.

• Writing a bill — single pupil and bulk-by-class Preview · 24 min
• The billing sub-group's views, editing and reversing a bill · 18 min
• Discounts and scholarships — how they're actually applied · 18 min
• Fee structure management · 20 min

Recording a payment correctly, the FIFO rule that decides which bill it clears, chasing debtors the right way, and the exception tool — journals — that keeps a pupil's ledger honest. This module resolves the course's running worked example.

• Writing a receipt and the FIFO allocation rule Preview · 20 min
• Daily collection, reconciliation and reversing a receipt · 18 min
• Online payment gateways · 18 min
• Debtors and ageing · 20 min
• Journals and the pupil ledger — the worked example, resolved · 24 min

The three ways School-IMS records daily attendance, viewing and reconciling what gets recorded, and the notifications and reports that flow from it.

• Taking attendance — manual, QR/barcode and offline Preview · 20 min
• Viewing, analysing and reconciling attendance · 18 min
• Absence notifications and the reports · 16 min

Fee estimates before enrolment, the guardian records and communication preferences behind every message, and running SMS/email campaigns without spamming or burning through credit.

• Quotations — fee estimates before enrolment Preview · 18 min
• Guardian notifications and guardian records · 20 min
• Bulk mail and SMS campaigns · 18 min

Configuring the parent/pupil portal, signing in, and a complete, real walkthrough of what a parent actually sees and can do — including the resolution of this course's worked example.

• Setting up the portal — configuration, announcements and credentials Preview · 22 min
• Signing in and the parent dashboard · 16 min
• What a parent can actually do — the worked example, in full · 26 min

The two parallel behaviour tracks (routine points vs. formal discipline), the pupil health profile against the daily clinic log, and the operational rhythm of running a boarding house and a bus fleet.

• Behaviour and discipline — two parallel tracks Preview · 22 min
• Health records · 16 min
• Hostel and transport · 22 min

The full billing sub-group reporting toolkit, school-wide analytics beyond just finance, and configuring every printout the front office produces — including document authenticity.

• The billing views and reporting toolkit Preview · 20 min
• Printout and authenticity settings · 16 min

Everything downstream — broadsheets, approval, report cards — starts with a score landing in the system. The real, unified Grid Score Entry screen, continuous-assessment weighting, bulk upload, and assignments.

• The Score Entry Grid: one screen for CA and Exam together Preview · 18 min
• Continuous assessment: components, weighting and deadlines · 16 min
• Bulk score upload via spreadsheet · 14 min
• Assignments: creating, grading and the late-penalty question · 18 min
• Worked scenario: entering CA and exam scores for a class, start to finish · 14 min

The guide's single most important internal disagreement — resolved with two independent live screenshots — plus weight configuration and the GPA/CGPA scale conflict.

• The grading scale: what's actually configured, not just documented Preview · 18 min
• CA/Exam weight configuration, subject overrides and pass marks · 14 min
• GPA, CGPA and academic standing · 12 min

Reading a class-wide picture — with one real screen resolving a per-class-vs-per-pupil conflict outright, and a real broadsheet showing exactly how stale numbers can look.

• Comment Entry and the Comment Bank · 14 min
• Reading and generating the Broadsheet Preview · 18 min
• Subject analysis, best performers, aggregates and position · 18 min

Four guide pages describe the approval chain four different ways. This course anchors on the one backbone that was actually live-exercised — with this track's own before/after screenshots going further still.

• Four guide pages, one verified backbone: Draft to Published Preview · 18 min
• Worked scenario: submitting a class's results for approval · 12 min
• Reviewing changes and enforcing deadlines · 14 min

The real Report Card Designer is far simpler than the guide's richest claims — and this module's flagship worked scenario traces one real pupil from a score entered in Module 1 to a printed report card.

• The Report Card Designer: the real, simple form Preview · 16 min
• Worked scenario: from the grid to a printed report card Preview · 20 min
• Printing and publishing report cards to the portal · 16 min
• Transcripts and promotion · 18 min

A real Question Bank with a hard 300-question cap, a real Create E-Assessment form with no Total-marks field at all, and a real Marking Queue that ties scores back into Results.

• Building a Question Bank Preview · 14 min
• Creating an E-Assessment Preview · 18 min
• Viewing E-Assessments and results — what "Status" really means · 16 min
• The Marking Queue: from submission to a CA score · 18 min

A real screen carrying a rule no guide page mentions at all, a deliberately separate lesson on live sessions, and the irony of a file literally named "e-library" that turns out to show the physical book library instead.

• E-Classroom, resolved: one real screen, two guide stories Preview · 16 min
• Live virtual sessions in more depth: platforms, breakout rooms and recording · 16 min
• The E-Library: adding and browsing digital resources · 16 min
• Closing: how E-Learning feeds Results, and this course's honest hedges · 12 min

How Product Inventory, Material Inventory and Procurement fit together, and the real, verified Register Product form.

• Three modules, one course: how Products, Materials and Procurement fit together Preview · 14 min
• Register Product: the real form, field by field · 20 min
• Finding products: View Product, the real catalogue, and barcodes · 18 min

The real, rich Register Stock-Purchase form — how stock actually enters a store — and finding what you've bought.

• Register Stock-Purchase: the real, rich intake form · 20 min
• Finding what you've bought: View Stock Purchase Item and View Stock Purchases · 14 min
• Worked scenario: buying and receiving a delivery of school uniforms · 14 min

The real, bulk-oriented Transfer and Adjustment screens, and a real field that partially resolves the atomic-vs-async transfer question.

• Transfers: the real Bulk Store Stock Transfer screen · 16 min
• Adjustments and bulk price edits · 18 min
• Worked scenario: adjusting and transferring stock between two stores · 12 min

The real stock card and bin views, and a real result table that settles the guide's own blind-counting contradiction.

• The General Stock Card and Stocks in Store Bin · 14 min
• The Store-Wide Sheet, and the blind-counting question settled · 20 min
• Worked scenario: a term-end stocktake reconciliation · 14 min

The Materials-vs-Products line in the school's own real data, and the real, verified Register Materials form.

• Materials vs Products, in the school's own real data · 12 min
• Register Materials: the real form · 16 min
• Finding materials: RawMaterials, Materials in Stock and the Material Stock Card · 14 min

The real Register Material Purchase and Register Materials Usage forms, plus a real screen that reshapes the Returned Inward/Outward question.

• Register Material Purchase: the real form · 16 min
• Materials usage, and the real Returned Inwards screen · 18 min
• Worked scenario: a full materials cycle, purchase to usage to stock check · 14 min

The real, two-tab Create Supplier form, a real 2-supplier demo dataset, and the real Suppliers Ledger and Supply Rate Analysis screens.

• Create Supplier: the real, two-tab form · 16 min
• Finding suppliers: View Supplier and View Suppliers · 12 min
• Suppliers Ledger and Supply Rate Analysis · 16 min

The real, simple requisition form, four incompatible approval-threshold schemes taught honestly, and the real Create Purchase Order screen.

• Make A Requisition: the real, simple form · 16 min
• Approval thresholds: four guides, four numbers, one honest answer · 14 min
• Create Purchase Order: materials and products on one order · 16 min
• Tracking purchase orders: status, and what the real screens don't show · 16 min

The GRN question resolved with a live, screenshotted defect, and a closing worked scenario tying every module together with real numbers.

• Goods received, resolved: what GRN means here · 18 min
• Worked scenario: requisition to purchase order to stock, start to finish · 18 min

How the five areas of this course fit together, why the source guide disagrees with itself so often here, and what this course deliberately does not re-teach.

• My Desk, Dashboard, Custom Modules and the toolbox around them Preview · 14 min
• The AI Assistant: two incompatible descriptions, and what the live screen actually shows · 16 min

The real Write and View screens against four competing guide field-counts, and a real, populated week of lesson plans to work from.

• Writing a lesson plan: the real form, and four competing guide field-counts Preview · 20 min
• Finding lesson plans: the real View screen, and a real week's worth of real plans · 18 min
• Templates, curriculum tracking and the deeper lesson-plan screens · 18 min

What the real, live screens show — a staff reflective journal — against three incompatible guide narratives, none of which match.

• The real Daily Achievements Log: a staff journal, not a pupil merit system Preview · 18 min
• What the guide claims instead: three incompatible achievement models · 16 min

The real, simpler-than-documented email, SMS and memo forms, with email sending switched off on this tenant, plus a worked communication scenario.

• Email and SMS: the real forms, and email sending switched off on this tenant Preview · 18 min
• Email templates and mail merge · 14 min
• Office Memo: the real, simple form against four competing guide models · 18 min
• Inbox and notifications, and a worked memo-and-email communication workflow · 16 min

A real, query-first task list with no visible Priority or Status field at all, against the guide's own irreconcilable 4-way conflict, plus the real Task Calendar and School Calendar.

• TODO: the real query-first task list, and the guide's priority-and-status contradiction Preview · 20 min
• Task Calendar and the School Calendar · 16 min
• Worked scenario: planning and tracking a week of tasks · 14 min

The real, personal Document Manager against four competing guide models — and a second real screen that turns out to be course #6's HR Documents screen in disguise.

• The real Document Manager, and four competing guide models for how many document screens exist Preview · 18 min
• Templates, e-signature, retention and a worked document workflow · 16 min

The real pupil-search launcher screen, against a genuine pupil-vs-staff and 9-field-vs-16-field contradiction the launcher itself does not resolve.

• The real pupil-search launcher, and the pupil-or-staff contradiction Preview · 16 min
• Medication, injury reports and outbreak tracking · 16 min

A lending-policy conflict with no live screen to settle it, a real bulk alumni mechanism nobody's guide page describes, the disciplinary log, and a real scholarship "Scheme" screen.

• Library and Circulation: a lending-policy conflict with no live screen to settle it Preview · 14 min
• Alumni: the real bulk "Graduate a Class" mechanism, not manual registration · 16 min
• Disciplinary Log · 14 min
• Scholarship and Bursary: the real "Scheme" screen against two guide models · 16 min

Three competing "20 gadgets" catalogues, and a real, populated dashboard that directly settles which one is actually live.

• The gadget library: three competing 20-gadget lists, and the real dashboard that settles it Preview · 20 min
• Attendance, birthday and financial gadgets in depth · 18 min
• Worked scenario: setting up dashboard gadgets for a role · 16 min

The real, simple Create form settles when fields actually get added, and a genuinely mislabelled guide screenshot for "View Custom Modules."

• Creating a custom module: the real, simple form, and when fields actually get added Preview · 18 min
• Field types, layout, access and a mislabelled guide screenshot · 16 min
• Worked scenario: creating a custom module from scratch · 16 min

Two genuinely thin areas, covered honestly and briefly rather than padded out — two real links, and one real screen out of four menu entries.

• Help & Support: two real links, honestly Preview · 10 min
• Offline Sync: one real screen out of four menu entries · 10 min

What this course actually covers, the discipline of cross-referencing rather than duplicating the department courses, and the network/device/power groundwork worth settling before Step 1.

• What This Course Covers, and What It Deliberately Does Not Re-Teach Preview · 14 min
• Technical Readiness Before You Start: Network, Devices and Power · 16 min

The literal starting point of the sequence — sign in, change the default password, and a two-minute orientation before everything else hands off to Administration.

• Signing In, Changing the Default Password, and a Quick Orientation Preview · 14 min

The school's identity card — every field feeds bills, receipts, report cards and the portal, so getting it right now avoids reprinting later.

• Editing School Information and Uploading the Logo · 16 min

The academic calendar that everything from here on depends on — classes, fees, attendance, scores and promotions all need a session and term to attach to.

• Creating a Session and Terms, and Why This Must Come First · 16 min

The three-tier hierarchy that everything else in the sequence hangs off — and the field a school most regrets leaving blank.

• Building the Class Structure: Types, Groups and Classes · 18 min

Three source pages clustered together deliberately — the guide chains behavioural configuration after go-live in its own links, but it is pre-launch academic setup, so it belongs here with subjects and grading.

• Registering Subjects and Assigning Them to Classes · 16 min
• The Grading Scale, Resolved, Plus Behavioural Configuration · 18 min

Building the price list that bills are written against, plus a worked scenario that threads Steps 3, 4, 5 and 6 into one real test bill.

• Building the Fee Catalogue · 18 min
• Worked Scenario: From First Login to a Test Bill · 20 min

The two-record model, a real screenshot that overturns both of the guide's competing privilege-template lists, and the two backward loops this step exists to close.

• Registering Staff and Creating User Accounts · 18 min
• Closing the Loop: Form Teachers and Subject Teachers · 16 min

A soft minimum, not a hard field list — and a real transfer screen richer than the guide's own three-step description.

• Registering Pupils, Verifying Class Lists, and Transfers · 18 min

Periods first, then the schedule itself — and a dependency the guide only half-states.

• Periods First, Then Manual or Auto-Generated Timetables · 18 min

The payoff: a same-day checklist and three real workflow tests, resolving the guide's biggest internal conflict in favour of the scenario this course was built for.

• The Go-Live Checklist and the Three Workflow Tests Preview · 18 min
• Briefing Staff, Distributing Credentials, and Your Own Dashboard · 16 min

Not part of the numbered sequence, not a go-live blocker — and simpler in reality than any of the guide's four competing field-count claims.

• Routes, Vehicles, Drivers and Pupil Assignment · 14 min

What this synthesis course covers, what it deliberately does not re-teach, and the privilege-based access a proprietor account actually needs.

• What This Course Covers, and What It Deliberately Does Not Re-Teach Preview · 16 min
• Privileges First: What to See, and What Not to Touch · 14 min

The real, screenshot-confirmed 20-gadget catalogue and course #9's own quoted Proprietor/Director row — resolved against two guide pages whose gadget lists match neither it nor each other.

• The Real Dashboard: Twenty Gadgets, and the Proprietor Six Preview · 18 min
• Reading the Financial Summary Gadget and the Collection-Rate Bands · 16 min

Two real Finance screens read as an owner, an honest gap in the surviving screenshots, and School-IMS for Bursars' own capstone affordability model applied at proprietor level.

• The Daily Financial Summary and View Budgets, Read as an Owner · 18 min
• The Four-Check Affordability Model, Applied by an Owner · 14 min

The real, 250-plus-row View Debtors screen, a five-band aging table with its own computation mechanic, and the family-level figures behind it.

• The Real Five-Band Debtor Aging Table Preview · 18 min

The real Admissions screen and its honest limits, plus why a claimed class-utilisation percentage is not something this course will teach as real.

• The Real Admissions Pipeline, and What Is Not Yet Verified · 16 min
• Class Enrolment: The Real Pupil Count, Not a Capacity Percentage · 16 min

An honest hedge on multi-branch comparison, and the real, confirmed-nav-path Activity Log every proprietor should know how to read.

• Multi-Branch Oversight: What Is Verified, and What Is Not · 12 min
• The Activity Log: Your Accountability Trail · 14 min

This course's capstone, built entirely from two real, already-connected pupil records rather than invented numbers — a genuine large balance, and a genuine credit that looks alarming but is not.

• Two Real Numbers, Two Different Decisions: A Monday-Morning Read-Through Preview · 20 min

A daily-to-termly reading cadence built only from screens this course has actually verified — closing the loop on the independence bar.

• Your Weekly and Monthly Rhythm as Proprietor · 14 min

What finishing all nine tracks means, the exam ahead, and where to go from here.

• The Exam, the Certificate, and What Comes Next · 10 min