Designing Report Cards

Most school systems give you a fixed report card and a support ticket if you want it changed. DRAIS gives you the designer. Your report card is a document your school builds and edits, and changes take effect on the next print.

Open it from Academics → Report Templates. You can start from a built-in design, copy an existing one, or build from scratch.

How a report card is put together

A design is a stack of sections. You add the ones you want, order them, and set their options. The common ones:

Sections can be nested in containers, so a design can put two blocks side by side rather than only stacking them down the page. Multi-page designs are supported for schools that print a second sheet.

Placing your own values

Anywhere you can type text, you can insert a value from the learner's record using curly braces:

Dear parent of {student.fullName},
Class: {student.className}    Term: {meta.term}

Values can be formatted as they are placed:

{next_term_begins | date:"D MMM YYYY"}
{fee_balance | number:"#,##0"}
{comments.classTeacher | coalesce:"—"}

Showing a section only for some learners

Each section can carry a visibility rule, so one design serves learners who need different things. For example:

• show a Qur'an memorisation block only where the learner takes it;
• show a boarding notice only to boarders;
• show a merit ribbon only to the top five in the class.

Rules combine with AND / OR and can be nested. You build them from dropdowns — there is nothing to write.

Comment rules

Instead of typing the same remark for thirty learners, define rules once and let DRAIS choose. A rule says: when the learner's result looks like this, the comment is that.

1. 1

   Go to Settings → Report Comments

   Comments are managed per role — class teacher, director of studies, headteacher.
2. 2

   Write a rule

   For example: average of 80 or more → "An excellent term. Keep it up."
3. 3

   Add the conditions you need

   By average, aggregate, division, position, or a combination.
4. 4

   Preview against a real class

   The live preview shows which comment each learner would receive before you commit to it.

Comments can be scoped to a particular report card design, so a school running more than one design can give each its own comment logic.

Bilingual and Arabic report cards

DRAIS supports English and Arabic report cards, including right-to-left layout and Arabic numerals. Schools running both a secular and a theology curriculum typically keep one design per curriculum.

Labels come from a shared vocabulary rather than being typed into each design, so translations stay consistent across every report card your school prints.

Adjusting a single learner's report

Occasionally one learner needs something different — a subject hidden because they joined late, or a section removed. From the report preview you can apply an override to that learner only.

• The override affects only that learner, on that set of report cards.
• Their marks are not changed — only what is shown.
• Overrides are listed and can be removed individually or reset for the learner.

Publishing a design

Designs move through draft → submitted → approved → published. Only a published design is used for printing, so work in progress is never printed by accident. Every save keeps a version, and any version can be restored.

Related

• Report Cards
• Exams & Marks