Settings page overview

myschool includes many modules and plugins for managing administrative and learning activities. Before using the modules, a few core settings need to be completed.

Accessing Settings

• Click Menu → Administration → Settings on the dashboard.

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• The Configuration Home page opens.

Settings options

1. Manage Class/Section: configure classes or courses and their sections, e.g. Grade 1, BBA Year 1, and sections A, B or Semester 1.
2. Manage student category: add the student categories in your institution, used for fee discounts or grouping students, e.g. staff children, siblings, day scholars, boarders.
3. Manage subjects: add subjects and assign them to courses, batches or classes.
4. General settings: general information such as school name, address, logo, grading system, language and currency.
5. Admission additional details: add extra fields used when admitting a student, e.g. passport number or birth certificate. Once added, the fields appear when entering student details.
6. Manage student roll numbers: sort students by admission number, first name or last name and generate roll numbers from that order.
7. Student document categories: create document categories for uploads at admission, e.g. passport or previous report card.
8. Feature access settings: choose which features parents/guardians can access:
   1. Gallery: view the shared gallery
   2. Hostel: view the ward’s hostel details
   3. Transport: view the ward’s transport details
   4. Student documents: view the ward’s documents
   5. Assignments: view the ward’s homework
   6. Tasks: view tasks
9. Academic years: add the institution’s academic years, e.g. 2025–2026, 2026–2027. All admissions, exams and sections are organised under the selected year, keeping data in chronological order.
10. Custom words: replace terms shown in the interface to match your institution, e.g. call courses “classes” or batches “sections”.
11. Manage clients: add external apps or websites so users can open them from inside their account.