About the company:
Classter is a comprehensive cloud-based management information system that provides all the essential functions needed to effectively manage any educational organisation, regardless of size or type – nursery, primary, secondary and higher education, language schools, qualification centres, including SMEs and enterprise organisations, to deliver in-house training.
The solution is fully integrated with more than 40 of the most popular third-party tools, including Office 365, Google Workspace, Moodle, Webex, MS Teams, Zoom and HubSpot. Classter supports both synchronous (Microsoft Teams; ZOOM; Cisco Webex) and asynchronous (moodle; brightspace; canvas) learning methods. Teachers can lecture online and support students and learners in 1:1 sessions, thus improving the expected outcomes of distance and/or hybrid learning.
The Classter system is featured on Capterra and SourceForge as an excellent choice for educational institutions.
Main modules:
Classter provides an extensive tool for creating curricula and training programs. You can easily create curriculum elements such as semesters, years and groups of required or elective courses, modules or units. Program managers can manage credit requirements to advance to a higher course, automatically allow learners to continue to the next year, or force them to repeat depending on annual performance.
Architecturally, the company has provided a robust data management environment that is deployed on Microsoft Azure. This enables administrators to securely process the personal and sensitive data of learners, parents, teachers, staff, external companies. With Classter, educational institutions in the EU can easily achieve the implementation of all GDPR requirements and principles.
Academic CRM
- Create and manage events: With Classter, you can quickly and easily plan and manage your events online or offline. Educators can create events online that automatically sync with the educational institution's calendar, as well as learners' and parents' calendars. Each user has their own calendar where they can easily organize and manage all events, appointments, assignments and exams.
- Custom portals for all users: Classter offers custom portals for every type of user, ensuring that your institution is always connected to all stakeholders in the most efficient and personalized way.
- Bulk messaging: Classter provides educators and administration with a wide range of bulk actions and automations to send notifications to all users via all available means: in-app, email and SMS. This significantly saves time when updating users about scheduled events.
Reception
- Customised admissions portals: the platform provides a portal to manage applications, registrations and re-registrations. This portal is easily configurable to suit specific intake processes without the need to deploy IT or developers.
- Automation of enrolment procedures: applicants and their parents can register online for courses and activities, thus reducing administrative work and manual data entry.
- Real-time reporting for complete visibility of the application process.
- Payments: gives applicants and their parents the option to pay online, through a secure environment.
Payments
- Integrated financial management: the module enables office staff and the accounting department to easily create all kinds of financial arrangements to manage tuition fees.
- Invoicing: Students and parents can easily access their financial records and track their monthly or annual financial obligations to your educational institution. At the same time, the accounting department can streamline monthly billing by automatically sending invoices to specific users or in bulk, depending on specific course enrollment, classes, or extracurricular activity.
- Reporting: the Classter Payments module offers a list of pre-defined financial reports that help you get a complete overview of your organization's financial activity. Management teams across the organization gain access to financial reports that help them monitor key financial KPIs, and make data-driven decisions.
Internships and theses
- Students' employability and practical skills: graduates with work experience have an advantage in the labour market as they have initial work experience and are ready to be employed. Internships allow students to gain the necessary experience in the disciplines studied, and to apply the theory learned.
- Improved communication between students and faculty: By facilitating the process for faculty supervision, communication and support, students complete their internships and thesis projects on time and with excellent results.
Transport
- Classter's school bus management system is designed to simplify the management of student routes and locations. The module allows you to create a list of vehicles, drivers and co-drivers and their contact details. You also have the option of creating zones and routes that meet the needs of your institution.
- Integration with Google Maps: the system allows you to easily create multiple routes, as well as track the position of the bus on the map in real time, through installed GPS systems.
- Real-time information: to ensure the safety of your students, Classter provides you with the SMS text messaging feature that allows you to automatically inform parents and/or guardians via SMS when the bus is approaching pick-up and drop-off points or in case of emergencies.
Library
- Physical Libraries: Efficiently manage your physical library by using barcodes to easily track book borrowing - enter and manage copies of books, including real-time visibility of location and availability.
- Online libraries: learners and teachers can easily search for books and make online reservations, and the library database is automatically updated.
- Course Libraries: Classter offers the ability to create and manage libraries for specific courses. In this way, you can easily synchronize the suggested readings based on the curriculum with your library's database.
Evaluations and studies
- Online surveys: with Classter you can easily create and distribute your online questionnaire to students, parents or teachers.
- Test Management: Classter provides educators with the ability to manage tests online or offline. The system allows the creation of a collection of questions for each course or academic sector. Create your tests as part of an exam or distribute them as assignments and homework.
- Quiz Builder: Use Classter Quiz Builder to design your questionnaire and automatically distribute it to students according to their course, class, syllabus, mentor, or instructor. Additionally, it is possible to monitor respondents answering your surveys in real time, create and distribute different student questionnaires based on course or instructor, and provide productive feedback to mentors based on survey results.
Mobile application
- The mobile app is a complement to the web-based app with enhanced functionalities for end users such as learners, parents and teachers. With an intuitive interface that allows real-time access to information related to the learning process, such as attendance, grades and assessments. Advanced notification functionality informs end users of any updates regarding task deadlines and upcoming events.
- The mobile app allows teachers to upload relevant homework for the subjects they teach directly from their mobile device. Additionally, students can see the assigned homework for each specific class they attend, and parents will be automatically updated on their children's homework in a detailed and analytical way.
- Teachers can edit the attendance status for each student directly from their mobile device and view a detailed attendance report for each specific class - date, type, number of absences, class, subject and comments.
