New software to manage school data
THE creation of local software to manage jobs in Uganda is now thriving. In March this year, The New Vision reported of a ‘Bill Gates’ who had rolled out one of these products — the Schools Management Information System (SMIS) written in visual basic programming language.
By Davis Weddi
THE creation of local software to manage jobs in Uganda is now thriving. In March this year, The New Vision reported of a ‘Bill Gates’ who had rolled out one of these products — the Schools Management Information System (SMIS) written in visual basic programming language.
Recently, Ronald Egesa, who runs Magezi Solutions, said he has rolled out a multi-function general school management system. It is called the Magezi Harvest, locally developed from Egesa’s small computer laboratory based in Kansanga, a suburb of Kampala.
His system is superior because it has an embedded system that can store data that can be retrieved for up to 20 years.
While SMIS runs only on Microsoft OS, Magezi Harvest is a cross-platform and cross-browser web-based software designed with the latest technology suitable for academic record management.
Egesa said the product was developed in the last two years. Testing was done in close partnership with Old Kampala Secondary school for one year.
“This is a sophisticated system, but it is easy to use,†Egesa said.
He said the opportunity to create this software came when the headteacher at Old Kampala said he wanted a system that could produce a report on any student’s performance, complete with the student’s photograph.
“We wanted to increase efficiency and accuracy in producing students’ progress reports. We wanted people to know that local talent can be used to develop locally suitable complex systems better than the imported systems,†Egesa said.
The system handles records of all the students’ marks, positions, grades and teachers’ comments. It generates mark sheets and statistical sheets to help the school analyse overall performance of the students and teachers as well.
Magezi Harvest can work on one desktop and also in a networked environment. Its security is idiot-proof, Egesa said. It can run on both proprietary and open source platforms, that is, either Windows or Linux operating systems.
Egesa said the system was free because of the bureaucracy involved in approving software products. However, when a school signs up for the system, they foot the bill for training the headteacher, bursar, teachers, librarian and other users.
There are also extra components that can be added if the school wishes to have them and these are premium. They are the accounting module, stock-taking module and library system.
Once the system is installed, all users can have access to it, depending on the hierarchy of permissions for usage.
To get the Magezi Harvest, one can contact the developers at www.magezi.net.
THE creation of local software to manage jobs in Uganda is now thriving. In March this year, The New Vision reported of a ‘Bill Gates’ who had rolled out one of these products — the Schools Management Information System (SMIS) written in visual basic programming language.
Recently, Ronald Egesa, who runs Magezi Solutions, said he has rolled out a multi-function general school management system. It is called the Magezi Harvest, locally developed from Egesa’s small computer laboratory based in Kansanga, a suburb of Kampala.
His system is superior because it has an embedded system that can store data that can be retrieved for up to 20 years.
While SMIS runs only on Microsoft OS, Magezi Harvest is a cross-platform and cross-browser web-based software designed with the latest technology suitable for academic record management.
Egesa said the product was developed in the last two years. Testing was done in close partnership with Old Kampala Secondary school for one year.
“This is a sophisticated system, but it is easy to use,†Egesa said.
He said the opportunity to create this software came when the headteacher at Old Kampala said he wanted a system that could produce a report on any student’s performance, complete with the student’s photograph.
“We wanted to increase efficiency and accuracy in producing students’ progress reports. We wanted people to know that local talent can be used to develop locally suitable complex systems better than the imported systems,†Egesa said.
The system handles records of all the students’ marks, positions, grades and teachers’ comments. It generates mark sheets and statistical sheets to help the school analyse overall performance of the students and teachers as well.
Magezi Harvest can work on one desktop and also in a networked environment. Its security is idiot-proof, Egesa said. It can run on both proprietary and open source platforms, that is, either Windows or Linux operating systems.
Egesa said the system was free because of the bureaucracy involved in approving software products. However, when a school signs up for the system, they foot the bill for training the headteacher, bursar, teachers, librarian and other users.
There are also extra components that can be added if the school wishes to have them and these are premium. They are the accounting module, stock-taking module and library system.
Once the system is installed, all users can have access to it, depending on the hierarchy of permissions for usage.
To get the Magezi Harvest, one can contact the developers at www.magezi.net.