Students, guardians and LIN
Admission numbers, LIN, class and stream, guardian contacts, boarding status and photographs. Import a new intake from a spreadsheet at the start of the year instead of typing each learner.
Academics & Reporting
Report card season without the all-nighter.
Enter marks once — by keyboard, or by importing a lin,score file from a teacher's laptop — and Books-pro does the totals, grades, positions, comments and batch printing.
- Batch report printing
- Parent portal
- No daily register required
One mark entry, many outputs
Type marks into the grid or import a class file. Class lists, subject summaries, positions and report cards all read from the same entry.
School-shaped report cards
Detailed, concise and mid-term layouts with UGX grades, remarks, class position, teacher signature lines and the school crest.
Parents see it the same day
Publish results to the student and parent portal once the head teacher approves. No re-typing, no photocopies lost on the way home.
Mark entry
Enter a class the way teachers already work
Pick the class and stream, then the assessment. The grid lists learners by name and LIN so a teacher can work down the column with the number pad.
Teachers who keep spreadsheets can export lin,score lines and import them directly — one subject at a time, with a rejected-row report if a LIN is wrong.
- Streams and combinationsClasses split into streams; positions calculated within the stream or the whole class.
- Missing marks are visibleA blank cell stays blank — the system will not silently score it zero.
- Remarks per learnerClass teacher and head teacher commentary saved with the term.
Report cards
Print the whole class, then sign once
Choose the term, class and layout, then batch print. Each card carries the same marks the portal shows, so there is no second version to explain.
The approve-and-sign step locks results for the term after the head teacher confirms them, so later edits cannot quietly change a printed card.
Around the classroom
The records that hold the term together
Term totals, not a daily register
Books-pro records days present and days in the term as totals per learner — useful for report cards and requirements. It is not built as a daily period-by-period register, and we say so upfront.
Periods without clashes
Build the weekly timetable per class and check teacher and room conflicts as you go. Printable per class, per teacher, or on one wall sheet.
Awards that reach the fee account
Record a scholarship or bursary against a learner with its value and term. It appears on the fee statement so the bursar and the class teacher see the same balance.
One message, the right channel
Send a notice to a class, a stream or selected guardians. Delivery goes through the SMS provider configured for the school — Ego, Yoola, Genius or Africa's Talking, an Android handset bridge, or a GSM modem.
Biometric attendance import
Where the school has a ZKBio device or a webhook-capable reader, staff and learner clock-ins can be imported rather than retyped.
Portal & app
The results parents keep reopening
Each learner gets portal access for results and fee statements. The same records power the Books-pro Android app, which keeps the last downloaded report card on the phone so it can be shown at home without data.
- Download once, read offlineCached cards stay readable on flaky connections.
- Time-limited accessPortal tokens expire after 30 days so a shared link does not stay open forever.
- No adverts or trackersThe app carries no third-party advertising or analytics SDKs.
Straight answers
Academic questions we get on every call
Can we use our own report card design?
The template layouts are detailed, concise and mid-term. School crest, name, colours and the remark blocks are configurable, and the printed card is designed to carry the same information as the current one. A completely bespoke layout is a customisation discussion rather than a setting.
Do teachers need to be in the computer lab?
No. Mark entry runs on the school network from any connected machine, and the lin,score import lets a teacher prepare marks in a spreadsheet and hand over one file.
Is attendance a full daily register?
Not currently. Books-pro keeps term attendance totals used on report cards and returns. If a school needs period-by-period registers, we will say that plainly during the demo rather than promise it.
Who can publish results?
Only a role with the report publishing right. Marks can be entered by teachers, but results reach the portal after the head teacher approves the term.
Bring last term's marksheet
We will enter a class, generate the report cards, and show the same results on the parent portal in one call.