Playbook — Illustrative Walkthrough
Starter Plan
Turn on what you need
Attendance
One tap per student
In your language
Add-ons
Later, not day one
Some schools run their whole office with two or three people who have no IT department to call, and an earlier attempt at digitizing didn't stick because the software assumed someone would always be free to configure and troubleshoot it.
The risk with a full rollout all at once is that it overwhelms a small admin team, and the school quietly drifts back to paper within a term.
This describes a common starting position for many schools, not a specific institution.
Here’s how a school in this situation typically sets things up. These are real modules in the product, walked through for this profile — not a customer’s account of what happened:
A school can turn on just Fees and Attendance to begin with, and leave academics, exams, and staff HR switched off until they're ready.
Marking attendance is a single tap per student per day — no multi-step form to learn.
Every payment the office collects is recorded and receipted in seconds, so the admin team spends less time on paper receipts.
Parent-facing email templates can be written in whichever language a family reads most comfortably, set per template. WhatsApp is built at the backend level and on our roadmap for a future release.
Attendance and fee updates are visible to parents in the app the moment your office records them, without a new tool for staff to learn.
Academics, exams, and staff HR are available on the same account and can be switched on later without a fresh rollout.
Typical pacing — every school’s rollout is a little different.
Step 1 — Start narrow
Only Fees and Attendance are switched on, so staff learn two workflows, not ten.
Step 2 — Set the parent language
Email templates for fee updates and attendance are written in the language parents read.
Step 3 — Let it settle
Staff run fee collection and attendance for a term before anything new is introduced.
Step 4 — Add modules when ready
Academics, exams, or staff HR are switched on later, on the same account, without a second rollout from scratch.
Starter Plan
Nothing is forced on at once
A school chooses which modules are active; Fees and Attendance alone is a complete, working setup, not a stripped-down demo.
Attendance
One tap, not a form
Marking a student present or absent is a single tap, so there's no multi-field form standing between a teacher and the register.
Parents don't have to learn anything new
Updates land in the inbox parents already check, in the language they read, and the same information is waiting in the parent app if they open it.
Add-ons
Growing in without starting over
When the office is ready for exams or staff HR, those modules turn on for the same account — the fee and attendance data already entered doesn't move or reset.
“This is an illustrative walkthrough of how Inter-College works for a school like this — not a customer outcome. We’re onboarding our first schools now, and playbooks like this are how we explain the product before we have results of our own to point to.”
Not a customer quote — how we describe every playbook on this page.
We’re onboarding our first schools now — book a walkthrough and we’ll map it to your actual classes, fee structure, and rollout.