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What Makronexus Education Is

Makronexus Education is a school operations platform that brings student records, academics, finance, attendance, communications, and governance into one system. It is designed for schools, multi‑school groups, and oversight teams who need consistent operations with clear roles and accountability.

This page is comprehensive but still system-driven: every capability listed here exists in the product and in the navigation.

Who uses the system​

  • School leadership (heads, principals, deans)
  • School operations staff (administration, admissions, office teams)
  • Teachers (classwork, assessments, attendance)
  • Finance teams (fees, invoices, payments, receipts)
  • Guardians and students (view records, communications, announcements)
  • Oversight and multi‑school executives (comparisons, compliance, governance)

Access is permission-based, so what you see depends on your role, school selection, and audience (for example, student vs staff vs oversight).

How the system is organized​

Tenants and schools​

  • A tenant is your organization or group (for example a trust or multi‑school group).
  • A school is the operating unit within a tenant.
  • Some screens require a selected school; others are tenant-wide.

Permissions and visibility​

  • Identity and access is centralized in Foundation -> Identity & Access.
  • Many modules are permission-gated and audience-scoped.
  • Oversight and super‑admin views can see cross‑school analytics and governance.

Major capability areas (modules)​

The navigation is the product map. These are the core areas you will see:

Executive​

  • Dashboard / Overview: performance snapshots and risk/compliance signals
  • School Profile: school identity, branding, and profile details

Platform administration​

  • Schools: onboarding, directory, setup progress, configuration, academic years, departments, buildings, classrooms
  • Cross-school operations: tenant administration, school profile oversight, and school comparison analytics

Admissions​

  • Setup & configuration: dashboard, cycles, programs, policies, quotas
  • Intake pipeline: prospects, applications, evaluations
  • Outcome pipeline: decisions, offers, enrollments

Academics​

  • Learning: curricula, subject templates, syllabuses, subjects, subject classes
  • Grading: grade categories, grading scales, assessments, assignments, gradebooks
  • Class Structure: grade levels, streams, class divisions, enrollments
  • Exams: dashboard, settings, series, schedules, subject entries, components, sessions, results, analytics, draft tracker
  • Reporting: report templates, term definitions, report runs, term reports, report subjects

Timetable​

  • Dashboard, templates, schedules, periods, grid view, teacher availability, optimization

Education 5.0​

  • Overview: outcomes dashboard, community impact dashboard
  • Foundations: competency portfolios
  • Build & Innovate: innovation prototypes
  • Apply in Community: community impact tracking, heritage challenges
  • Operate Enterprise: school enterprise operations
  • Showcase: capstone showcases

People and HR​

  • People: students, teachers, staff, guardians, bulk import
  • HR foundation: dashboard, compensation bands, positions, staff profiles, org assignments, contracts
  • Recruitment: requisitions, candidates, applications, interviews, offers
  • Employment lifecycle: onboarding, offboarding
  • Workforce operations: leave, time approvals, training, performance reviews, benefits
  • Payroll & insights: payroll records, payroll runs, compliance, analytics

Communications​

  • Content studio: dashboard, templates, announcements, maintenance alerts, campaigns
  • Messaging channels: chats, WhatsApp
  • Delivery operations: notifications, outbox, delivery logs, delivery history, delivery analytics, channel settings
  • Subscriptions & consent: topics, my subscriptions, preferences, suppressions

Operations​

  • Attendance: dashboard, register, reports, at-risk students, interventions
  • Events: school events and calendar management
  • Conduct: dashboard, conduct types, incidents, recognition, analytics
  • Service Operations: case queue, SLA and watchers, catalog items, requests, catalog insights, knowledge articles, feedback
  • Inventory: dashboard, categories, items, locations, suppliers, purchase orders, transactions, allocations, transfers, maintenance, depreciation, disposals
  • Library: dashboard, books, copies, rentals, reservations, rules
  • Hostel: dashboard, dormitories, rooms, beds, allocations, attendance, visitors, discipline
  • Staff Attendance: dashboard, attendance log, kiosk display, kiosk stations
  • Offline Sync: dashboard, devices, conflicts, cloud sync, cloud settings, admin controls
  • Administrative operations: disaster recovery and command center

Sports & Athletics​

  • Houses, teams, rosters
  • Events, competitions, achievements
  • Training schedules
  • Facilities, venues, bookings, maintenance
  • Equipment inventory

Finance​

  • Payment collection: dashboard, analytics, payments, receipts, receipt templates, payment profiles, student summaries
  • Billing pipeline: fee structures, billing runs, invoices
  • Payment gateways: bank settings, Stripe, PayNow, InnBucks, mobile money, bank transfer, attempts
  • Accounting: general ledger, cashbook, expenditures, bank statements, reconciliation, ledger exports
  • Financial statements: trial balance, income statement, balance sheet
  • Scholarships: programs, awards, applications
  • Audit trail and platform payment history

Analytics​

  • Insights: analytics dashboard, enrollment, financial, engagement, school comparison, realtime, KPI registry
  • Quality assurance: overview, frameworks, lesson observations, audits, improvement plans, evidence, reports, Zimbabwe presets

School setup​

  • School Profile, General Settings, Academic Years, Setup Progress, Onboard School

Academic setup​

  • Grading System, Class Structure, Curricula, Subjects, Term Definitions, Promotions, Exam Settings, Report Templates

Access & security​

  • Identity & Access: users, roles, permissions, policies, resources
  • Security: sessions, trusted devices, MFA devices
  • Self-Service Registration: overview, sessions, access codes, submissions, dashboards
  • Audit & Compliance: logs, alerts, exports, retention policies, frontend diagnostics
  • Disaster recovery

Communication settings​

  • Delivery Policy, System Templates, Push Devices, WhatsApp Settings

Billing​

  • Subscriptions, term subscriptions, invoices, payments, billing runs, pricing policies, add-ons, billing flow

System settings​

  • Library rules
  • Timetable periods and templates
  • Messaging templates, topics, suppressions
  • Finance bank settings, bank webhooks, fee structure, scholarship programs, scholarship applications
  • Quality assurance frameworks and presets

Role-based portals​

  • Student portal: Home, Timetable, Assignments, Academics, Attendance, Fees, Messages, My Profile
  • Teacher portal: Home, My Classes, Timetable, Attendance, My Check-In, Gradebook, Assignments, Messages, My Profile
  • Guardian portal: Home, My Children, Teachers, Finance, Payments, Messages, My Profile

What you can do end‑to‑end​

These are the core workflows schools complete in Makronexus Education. Each has a guide and screen reference:

  • Onboard a school and set academic years
  • Add or import students and staff
  • Set fees, generate invoices, record payments, and issue receipts
  • Capture assessments, exam schedules, and results
  • Take attendance and manage interventions
  • Send communications and track delivery
  • Produce operational and financial reports

Start with the Getting Started and Guides sections, then use Modules for field‑level reference.

Help inside the product​

The top bar includes a Help menu that links you directly to the right documentation for the page you are on. Learn how it works in In‑app help links.

What this documentation is​

  • Step‑by‑step workflows
  • Clear definitions of fields and terms
  • Permission guidance and troubleshooting tied to real screens

What this documentation is NOT​

  • Backend architecture
  • Database design
  • Internal services or deployment details