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10.09.2015 Education

It’s The 21st Century and Nobody Trusts Paper Anymore

10.09.2015 LISTEN
By Joina James

When it comes to running an academic institute school admins need to make sure every single pupil is being provided with the best schooling experience. Teachers on the other hand, are also an important asset to any school or college. The stakeholders are equally responsible to provide the teaching staff with healthy work conditions and environment. Before thinking of anything else, all a school needs is to get rid of paper and extra manual labor. The world believes in faster and convenient methods and online school management system is the first step towards success.

Before deciding to shift towards digitization, it is very important to know the reason. Why would school admins prefer automation over pen and paper approach? The reason for that is because it allows any school or college to achieve 100% results in lesser time and cost. Procedures that used to take days or sometimes hours to complete, can now be completed in just a few minutes. The accounts department is a risky area and school admins cannot put all the financial records on a few people and piles of paper. In order to stay away from theft and fraudulence, it is always good to bring automation into the system.

As far as attendance and enrollment is concerned, it’s not the day and age to rely on register-based methods. Cloud-based technology helps keep track of all important information from the click of mouse. After entering a particular student ID, school admins or a computer operator can keep track of all the required information and records quickly and efficiently. The 21st century approach of running schools involves computers and internet, not pen and paper. Academic institutes of today need to make sure all important information is being recorded in the best way possible or else students, teachers and even parents may start shifting towards other schools and colleges.

Children of today are already accustomed with using smartphones and internet therefore; they find it more convenient to look for exam schedules on the internet portal rather than going through notice boards or printed handouts. Similar is the case with parents. They always prefer accessing fee vouchers via the internet rather than personally going to school or waiting for the postal service at homes. The SMS alert system is also saving a lot of time by providing school admins with faster and efficient method of circulating information. Whether it’s an emergency school holiday, fee reminder, a student behavior complaint or an attendance report, all such information can be circulated via the computer-generated SMS alert service.

It’s the 21st century and everybody is accustomed to smartphones, internet and various faster modes of communication. When it comes to running an academic institute, school admins, teachers and everybody else can function better when there is lesser paper and more internet involved.

Source: http://www.archivistonline.com

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