DRAIS Documentation
Everything a school administrator needs to run DRAIS well. No technical background required.
These guides are written for the people who actually run a school — administrators, bursars, directors of studies and class teachers. They explain not just which button to press but why DRAIS behaves the way it does, because that is what makes the difference when something unexpected happens.
How DRAIS Works explains the handful of ideas everything else is built on. Setting Up Your School then walks you through the first day. Ten minutes on the first one saves hours later.
Getting Started
Read these two first. Everything else assumes them.
Students
Admission through to leaving, and everything in between.
Admitting a Student
Registering a new learner, including guardian details and fingerprint enrolment.
4 min read
Managing Learners
Transfers, end-of-year promotion, leavers, duplicates and corrections.
8 min read
The Parent Portal
How guardians get access, what they see, and how your school stays in control of it.
7 min read
Attendance
The part of DRAIS most schools come for.
How Attendance Works
From a fingerprint at the gate to a daily register, and how to handle absences.
6 min read
Fingerprint Devices
Connecting a device, enrolling fingerprints, reconciliation, and what to do when something looks wrong.
10 min read
Attendance Reports
Daily registers, term summaries, absence patterns, and how present, late and absent are decided.
7 min read
Academics
Marks in, report cards out.
Exams & Marks
Entering marks, grading, and producing class results.
5 min read
Report Cards
Generating, checking and printing report cards, and what makes a reprint reproducible.
4 min read
Designing Report Cards
Build your school's own layout — sections, branding, comment rules and bilingual output.
9 min read
Finance & Communication
Money in, messages out.
Administration
Set these up once, review them each year.
Users, Roles & Permissions
Adding staff and giving each person exactly the access their job needs.
7 min read
Settings & Modules
School profile, academic structure, attendance rules, grading and optional modules.
7 min read
Data Safety & Backups
Recovering something deleted, taking your own backup, and the audit trail.
6 min read
Help
When something is not behaving.
Need something that is not here?
These guides cover using DRAIS. If you need help with your subscription, adding a module, or something specific to your school's setup, contact the team through the Contact page or the Support page.
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