Skuul school management system

In search of good school management systems written in laravel, I tried so many although most were quite remarkably good they lacked some essential features that I would have loved in a school management system.This made me passionate in building my own school management system. Although it has been difficult, it's actually forming up into a quite useable project.

CONGRATS V2 OF SKUUL IS OUT

Skuul is awesome, but it had a few shortcomings when it came to some areas like UI speed and application slugishness as it grows. Version 2 fixes these issues and also improves on accessibility.

V2 is way faster and doesn't slow down condiderably as the app grows. Also upgrading should be relatively easy. Requirements remain the same with one exception, we now require node for asset bundling. No worries if you don't have node, there is a solution to that

Skuul is a multi school management system that aims to make school administration and activities a breeze by using the power of the internet and increased connectinity

Requirements

• Php 8.1 and above
• Composer
• Since this project is running laravel 9, we suggest checking out the official requirements here
• Npm

Installation

To skip steps 4 down ( after composer install ), you can run the below command and it would guide you through the process automatically

php artisan skuul:init

• Clone the repository by running the following command in your comamand line below (Or you can dowload zip file from github)

git clone https://github.com/yungifez/skuul ./skuul

• Head to the project's directory

cd skuul

• Install composer dependancies

composer install

• Copy .env.example file into .env file and configure based on your environment

cp .env.example .env

• Install node dependencies

npm install

• Build NPM assets

  npm run build

Note if you do not have node, you can do this in your local environment and using an ftp program upload the publi/build folder and manifest.json folder to your server

• Generate encryption key

php artisan key:generate

• Migrate the database

php artisan migrate

• Seed database

  You can seed the database in 2 ways

  • For production ie in your live server

    php artisan db:seed --class RunInProductionSeeder
    

  • For testing or development purposes

    php artisan db:seed
    

• Seed database to populate countries (takes approximately 10 minutes)

php artisan db:seed --class=WorldSeeder

• Set application logo by adding it in the public img folder and edit the .env logo path appropriately
• Store favicon in path public/favicons/, the file should be called favicon.ico
• For development or testing purposes, you can use the laravel built in server by running

php artisan serve

If you are running on production, visit your domain to verify it is working

After running the above commands, you should be able to access the application at http::/localhost or your designated domain name depending on configuration.

Updating

Typically, you can update most of the time following these steps

• clone the new version
• composer update
• php artisan optimize:clear
• php artisan migrate (Make sure to backup database)
• php artisan db:seed --class RunInProductionSeeder

Setup

• Log in to the application with the following credentials

  • Email: [email protected]
  • Password: password

• You would be prompted to change your password, change your passsword in the profile page to continue

• if you are on production

  • When you log in, you would be redirected to a page with error message at the top right corner that says "Please set your school of operation first". At the menu, click on create schools
  • On the page to create schools, provide a name, address and initial for your school and click on create school
  • Click on view schools, select the current school and click on the button set scvhool
  • You can now head over to the dashboard
  • You can begin to add classes, students, teachers etc. Some operations would not work specifically all links under the academics section
  • Head over to academic years, create a new academic year and a new semester then set the academic year and semester

• if you are on dev or testing, data is preset to test and use the application.

Usage

• Add class groups to the school
• Add classes to class groups
• Add sections to classes
• Add students to sections (You must have created a class and a section before you can add students)
• Add teachers to school
• Add subjects to school

Features

Super Admin

By default super admin can manage all activities in each school, some super admin exclusive features are

• Ability to create, edit and delete schools " Ability to set school of operation

Admin

• Ability to manage own school settings
• Ability to create, edit, view and delete class groups in assigned school
• Ability to create, edit, view and delete classes
• Ability to create, edit, view and delete sections
• Ability to create, edit, view and delete classes
• Ability to create, edit, view and delete subjects
• Ability to create, edit, view and delete academic years
• Ability to set Academic years
• Ability to admit students, view student profiles, edit student profile, print student profile and delete student
• Ability to create teachers, edit teacher profile and delete teacher
• Ability to create, edit, manage, view and delete timetables
• Ability to create, edit, view and delete sylabii
• Ability to create, edit, view and delete semester
• Ability to set own school academic year and semester

Teachers

• Ability to create, edit, view and delete sylabii
• Ability to create, edit, manage, view and delete timetables

This project was highly inspired by 4jean/lavSMS

Do you like the current state of this project?, you can support me or hire me for work

Todo

• Create demo site (for now, go to yungifez.xyz might be a mess but worth it. Log in to super admin account with password helloworld)
• Create logo
• Need help creating demo video
• Write docs using a tool like larecipe
• Write issue and contribution template file etc