Have you thought how cumbersome it is for your school authorities to maintain the records of each student, the various activities of the school, examination details, often, in bound volumes of papers and files that occupy the staff rooms in your school?
Information access
It's all about to change with project “Sampoorna” — a school management system that has been developed to store the entire details of students and staff in all schools in the State which can retrieved at the click of a mouse button.
Details of as many as 60 lakh students from Stds I to XII spanning over 15,000 schools in the State would now be accessible to the school authorities through this software.
Sampoorna would be deployed in all High Schools in the State, as part of the 100 day-programme of the Government. Such a mass system which is fully developed in Free Software is claimed to be the first of its kind in the country.
The main objective of Sampoorna school management software is to facilitate the school heads and teachers to easily implement, track and monitor all activities of students of their school and that of the school itself.
Various cumbersome processes such as preparation of Transfer Certificate, copying of Admission Register, generating various reports related to students, parents, teachers and non-teaching staff, generating lists for various scholarships, preparation of SSLC examination database, progress report, promotion list, entry forms for sports and games and also for Kalotsavam and similar events would be made easier using the software. A time-table preparation software has also been integrated into it.
Validation
According to K. Anvar Sadath, Executive Director, IT@School Project, Sampoorna has been visualised as a comprehensive mechanism to facilitate academic activities such as progress tracking and even determining the aptitude of a student right from the time of admission in Std I.
As part of the massive deployment of Sampoorna in the schools in the State, the training for Head Masters and School IT-Co-ordinators has already been completed in all 14 districts.
The class teachers have been instructed to cross check the students' details entered in the data collection form with that of the information available in the Admission Register.
Parents should also validate the information entered in these forms. From this year onwards, the student details available in Sampoorna would be the source for preparing the SSLC Certificates and the same would be used for Plus One admissions as well. Sampoorna would also be integrated with the Unique Identity Number (UID) scheme which is being implemented in the State.
