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# Welcome to SchoolManager
**Less paperwork, more time for your school.**
Whether you are a head teacher, teacher, accountant or guardian, this guide is for you. It shows how SchoolManager makes your daily work easier, and where to start with your own tasks.
[Who are you?](#who) · [A head teacher's morning](#morning) · [How the dashboard helps](#dashboard) · [How to read this guide](#how-to-read)
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## Today's headaches
In many schools the work is still on paper:
* The attendance register, which a teacher fills in by hand every day.
* The fee ledger and receipt book, where finding who paid how much takes time.
* The marks register, where the head teacher has to ask teachers one by one whether marks were submitted.
* Notices, where nobody is sure whether they reached the guardian.
SchoolManager brings these jobs into one place. You don't hunt for registers; the information you need comes to you.
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## A head teacher's morning
Say you reach school and open SchoolManager on your phone or computer. After you [sign in](/schoolmanagerp-docs/en/start/sign-in.md), the first page is the **Dashboard**.
1. You see a bar called **Open your to-do list**. It shows how many urgent items, warnings and reminders you have. Tap it and the **Your to-do** list opens.
2. Below it, the **Student attendance today** card shows what share of students came today and which sections still haven't taken attendance.
3. The **Teachers and staff** card shows how many staff are present today and how many are on leave.
4. The **Collection this month** card shows how much of this month's bills has been collected, compared with last month.
5. The **At-risk students** card names students who have two or more warning signs at once, such as continuous absence.
So without opening a register, you can see how the school is doing and where to look. These cards appear for the Admin and the Academic coordinator; some also appear for the Office staff or the Accountant. Whoever the school gives that role to sees them.
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## How the dashboard helps
Each role's dashboard puts that role's most urgent work first. To arrange the cards your own way, use the **Customise** button.
| Role | What comes first on the dashboard |
| ---------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| Teacher | **My routine today**, **Attendance left to take** (which sections haven't had attendance taken), **Mark deadlines** (which marks are due, and by when) |
| Accountant | **Collection today**, **Unpaid bills by age**, **Reminders waiting** (fee reminders ready to send) |
| Admin | The state of the school: attendance, staff, collection, mark entry, and the **At-risk students** who need attention |
### How leaders see whether everyone is using the system
A school runs well when everyone does their part in the system. So the people who run the school can see these things:
* **Attendance not taken:** if a section's attendance isn't taken on time, the Admin, the Academic coordinator and the teacher concerned get an alert. The **Student attendance today** card also shows which sections are left.
* **Marks overdue:** the Academic coordinator and the Exam controller can see which section is late submitting marks. If it stays late for a long time, the alert becomes urgent. The **Mark entry** card shows which class is furthest behind.
* **Teachers and staff:** who is present today and who is on leave.
Nobody has to phone around to ask. Everyone's work gets done on time, and the whole school improves steadily.
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## Your data is safe
Each school's data is kept separate; one school cannot see another's. A teacher sees only the sections assigned to them. If someone enters a wrong password again and again, sign-in is blocked for a while. If a user is suspended or removed, their current session ends. To learn more, see [Signing in](/schoolmanagerp-docs/en/start/sign-in.md).
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## Works in Bangla, works on your phone
SchoolManager works in both Bangla and English. To switch, see [Changing the language](/schoolmanagerp-docs/en/start/language.md). There is no separate app to download; open your school's address in your phone's browser, and you can add it to your home screen if you like. See [Opening on a phone and installing as an app](/schoolmanagerp-docs/en/start/phone.md).
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## Who are you?
Find your role. Each role will get its own page; for now, open the [Roles](/schoolmanagerp-docs/en/roles.md) page.
| You are | What you see first | Your page |
| -------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| Head teacher / principal (in the Admin or Academic coordinator role) | School attendance, collection and at-risk students | [Roles](/schoolmanagerp-docs/en/roles.md) |
| Teacher | Today's routine, attendance left to take, mark deadlines | [Roles](/schoolmanagerp-docs/en/roles.md) |
| Accountant | Today's collection, unpaid bills by age | [Roles](/schoolmanagerp-docs/en/roles.md) |
| Office staff | Admissions today, students added today, incomplete guardian details | [Roles](/schoolmanagerp-docs/en/roles.md) |
| Exam controller | Mark entry, results, seat plans | [Roles](/schoolmanagerp-docs/en/roles.md) |
| Committee member | Enrolment, attendance, finances, pass rate | [Roles](/schoolmanagerp-docs/en/roles.md) |
| Parent | You are told if your child is absent today, fees are overdue, or results are published | [Roles](/schoolmanagerp-docs/en/roles.md) |
| Student | Homework due today, an exam tomorrow, results published | [Roles](/schoolmanagerp-docs/en/roles.md) |
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## How to read this guide
Every page is laid out the same way, so once you have read one, the rest feel easy.
* **Step-by-step instructions.** In each step, the exact words on the screen are in bold, and a line starting with "→" tells you what you will see next.
* **Pictures.** Important steps have a screenshot beside them, with numbered markers.
* **Diagrams.** How a task works is shown in the picture under "Learn more".
* **Word meanings.** If a word is new to you, see the [Glossary](/schoolmanagerp-docs/en/help/glossary.md).
If you can't find a page, see [Finding any page](/schoolmanagerp-docs/en/start/find-anything.md).
SchoolManager at a glance
A day at school
## Start here
New to SchoolManager? Open [Getting started](/schoolmanagerp-docs/en/start.md).