10 Hostel & School Management Platforms Automating Campus Life

Managing a hostel or a school efficiently requires seamless coordination, automated administration, and student engagement tools. As education institutions embrace technology-driven solutions, several platforms have emerged to simplify operations. Here are 10 leading hostel and school management platforms transforming campus life.

1. Fedena

Fedena is a cloud-based school management system that offers modules for admissions, attendance, exams, library, and fee collection. Its ERP framework helps administrators monitor student progress and streamline school operations.

Used by Indian Institute of Logistics, Laksh Career Academy, Vidya Vikas Academy, and Wellspring International College, according to its website. 

2. Entab (CampusCare ERP)

A popular choice for Indian schools, Entab’s CampusCare ERP provides student information systems, fee management, attendance tracking, and communication tools, ensuring smooth coordination among parents, teachers, and students.

3. iSAMS

Widely used in international schools, iSAMS integrates student records, HR management, finance, and academic planning into a single digital platform. Its mobile app allows easy access for teachers and administrators.

Trusted by Rugby School, Warwick School, and over 1,600 schools across 90 countries. 

4. eLite SIS

Designed for universities and colleges, eLite SIS delivers cloud-based administration, covering admissions, alumni management, financial analytics, and data-driven decision-making tools.

Implemented at Dharmsinh Desai University (India), The Learning Lab (Singapore), and Vega School (India). 

5. Vidyalaya

Vidyalaya’s school ERP system includes exam scheduling, payroll management, transportation tracking, and library automation. It enhances academic planning and communication.

Powers over 1,300 schools, colleges, and institutes, including Kendriya Vidyalayas. 

6. Blackbaud Education Management

Blackbaud’s platform serves independent schools, offering learning management tools, student enrollment solutions, automated billing, and fundraising capabilities for streamlined administration.

Blackbaud’s platform is used by Georgian College, Gonzaga College High School, Berwick Academy, and Porter-Gaud School. 

7. Classter

Classter provides a scalable school management system covering student registration, grade management, timetable scheduling, and financial tracking, helping schools centralize their administrative functions.

Classter is adopted by European University Cyprus, Hyper Island, and Portobello Institute. 

8. Gradelink

Gradelink is an easy-to-use system for private and charter schools, simplifying attendance tracking, grading, scheduling, and teacher-student communication.

Gradelink is used by Archdiocese of Los Angeles, Summit Christian Academy, and Claremore Christian School.

9. MyClassCampus

This school ERP system features mobile-based attendance tracking, online fee payment, automated exam results, and real-time parent-teacher communication, making education management more efficient.

10. OpenEduCat

An open-source education ERP, OpenEduCat helps universities and schools manage student records, faculty interactions, exam tracking, and learning resources, offering flexibility in customization.

OpenEduCat is trusted by Rotary, Katoen Natie, and National Power Academy.

Among these, iSAMS and Blackbaud Education Management stand out for their global reach and high-profile clients. 

The Future of Hostel & School Management Platforms

With institutions increasingly relying on automation, cloud-based solutions, and AI-driven analytics, these platforms ensure efficiency, financial control, and seamless student engagement. Schools and hostels integrating these tools are set to enhance academic operations and improve the student experience.

Education Has Become Increasingly Unaffordable Due to Urban Real Estate, Says Zoho CEO Vembu

SaaS major Zoho's CEO & Founder Sridhar Vembu believes that "Education has become increasingly unaffordable. A good part of it due to urban real estate (and even real estate around small towns) becoming extremely expensive; that affects education, health care and of course, housing and retail as well."

Sridhar Vembu further said that – "A lot of corruption money from politics is 'parked' in real estate and that has inflated prices beyond normal market forces. In a sense, all of us pay for political corruption in the form of expensive housing, schools and health care."

In a post over social media platform X, the Zoho CEO referred to a post on X, which showed the term-wise split of the amount to be paid to a school, in addition to a registration fee and an annual fee.

According to the X user's post, which Sridhar Vembu referred as an example for his point, he had to pay Rs 10,000 as a non-refundable registration fee, an annual fee of Rs 25,000 that was recurring and Rs 98,750 each for four three-month terms, between April 2024 and March 2025.

"We are investing in school education to make it affordable (our schools are free) but we can only do it in deep rural areas where land is affordable," added Vembu in the X post.

Notably, the cost of education in India has increased substantially. Between 2012 and 2020, education costs rose by about 10-12% annually. This includes tuition fees, transportation, and examination fees.

The rising cost of real estate in urban areas drives up the expenses for educational institutions. Schools and colleges often pass these costs onto students through higher tuition fees.

Corruption and speculative investments in real estate can inflate property prices, indirectly affecting the cost of education. This creates a cycle where high real estate prices lead to higher educational costs, making quality education less accessible.

Public expenditure on education has remained relatively stable, around 3.9% of GDP in 2018-19. However, private expenditure has grown faster, reflecting the increasing privatization of education. Together, public and private spending on education accounted for 6.6% of GDP in 2018-19.

Although, the education budget has seen periodic increases. For instance, the 2024 budget allocated ₹1.48 lakh crore to education, with significant increases for school education and literacy. Despite these efforts, affordability remains a challenge for many families, especially with the rising costs. And, Zoho founder, Sridhar Vembu, despite being a billionaire raise this issue to bring it in open.

While there are several government schemes aimed at making education more affordable, the implementation and reach of these programs can be inconsistent, limiting their effectiveness.

Addressing these barriers requires a multifaceted approach, including increased public investment, better implementation of government schemes, and efforts to reduce the cost of private education.

IIT Madras and Online Coding Platform Codingal Collaborate to Improve Computer Science Education in Schools

Codingal trains schoolteachers in Scratch Programing Language under IIT-M’s ‘UpSkill’ Initiative

Chennai, March 17, 2021: Online coding platform Codingal today announced that it has collaborated with IIT Madras (IIT-M) to improve the quality of Computer Science education at school level. As part of IIT-M’s ‘Upskill’ program under its annual technical festival, Shaastra 2021, Codingal trained school teachers in Scratch Programing Language. The Codingal-IIT Madras collaboration aims to equip schoolteachers with new teaching methodologies and tools that can be used in the classroom to enhance their students’ Computer Science learning.

Codingal conducted a six-session course in Scratch Programming Language to train 100+ teachers from 78 schools. Once trained, these teachers will in turn be able to teach Scratch Programing to their students as part of their computer science education.

Scratch language skills will allow school-going students to make their own interactive games and animations, which would allow them to nurture and demonstrate their creativity via online games development.

IT education in School curriculum across India needs to be at par with global standards. Equipping more teachers with coding knowledge will go a long way in making India the software powerhouse. This is also in line with GOI education policy adding coding at school level.

Chetan Reddy, Co-ordinator, Upskill Shaastra, IIT Madras said, “Shaastra 2021’s Upskill initiative is borne out of the necessity of transforming the Computer Science education at school level in India. We believe that Codingal’s expertise in imparting coding education is well-suited for training schoolteachers in Scratch programming and we are therefore glad to collaborate with them to run this training program. Together, we are aiming towards making Computer Science learning more fun for school going children.”

Venkatesh Sarvasiddhi, Senior Head, National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC) said, “With the world acknowledging and benefiting from the advancements in the field of IT and Computer Sciences, including basic understanding of coding language in the school curriculum is the need of the hour. Initiative like Shaastra Upskill equips teachers with new teaching methodologies, which in turn helps students understand coding at an early age.”

Vivek Prakash, cofounder of Codingal said, “From day one, our mission at Codingal has been to inspire school children to fall in love with coding. Learning to program in Scratch is ideal for school-going children as it allows them to build simple games and animations that give full expression to their creativity. We are therefore thrilled to support IIT-M’s Upskill initiative with a specially designed course on Scratch programming for school teachers, so they can in turn get their students to learn coding in a fun and enjoyable manner.”

Codingal has developed the world's first coding curriculum with BIDE Model (Broad, inspiring, Deep, Efficient), integrated with Bloom's Taxonomy and a dedicated focus on STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Maths) learning methodology. School kids love the Codingal platform for its teachers, curriculum, and competitions.

About IIT Madras, Shaastra 2021

Shaastra 2021 is IIT Madras’s flagship annual Technical festival. Being the first in the world to be ISO 9001:2015 certified, wholly student run tech festival, Shaastra stands out from the rest in being the largest and one of the most unique tech festivals ever celebrated in India and the world. All of this fuelled by our seamless passion for the ‘infinite possibilities’. The world saw Shaastra for the first time in 2000. Our fest was born with one goal in mind: to create and sustain a society of inquisitive minds, who learn and innovate by interacting with each other and industries.

About Codingal

Codingal is an online coding platform for K-12 (school) kids, with a mission to help children fall in love with coding at a young age. Launched in September 2020, Codingal has already empowered over 50,000 kids by motivating them to start learning coding via competitions and delivering quality coding education with all-star teachers – only from Computer Science background. Codingal has developed the world's first coding curriculum with BIDE Model integrated with Bloom's Taxonomy and a dedicated focus on STEM learning methodology.

9 Schools from India are Key Part in World’s Biggest Grassroots Online Education Conference

A selection of nine outstanding Indian schools, from kindergarten and primary level to senior secondary, have been selected for a ground-breaking new grassroots education event – World Education Week – to be held online in October.

Each school is to play a starring role in what is billed as the ‘world’s biggest education conference’, a key ingredient in a showcase of 100 schools which will gather online to share expertise and best practices in the inaugural World Education Week, from 5-9th October, in support of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal on Quality Education (SDG 4).

The hundred schools have been hand-picked for their expertise across a range of educational themes, such as enhancing employability and life-skills; deepening family and community engagement; the use of technology; a focus on wellbeing; and promoting the science of learning and teaching.

Each will share their wisdom to an online audience expected to reach 100,000 worldwide. The ambition driving World Education Week is to accelerate progress to achieve UN SDG 4, a commitment designed to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and lifelong learning for all.

The Indian schools are:

• The TSWRS Chevella Freedom School in Moinabad, Rangareddy
• The School of Excellence in Khichripur, New Delhi
• Choitram School, in Indore, Madya Pradesh
• Mahatma Vidyalaya in Muthanallur, Bangalore District, Karnataka
• The iTeach RSM English Medium Secondary School in Mundhwa, Pune
• The Government Primary School near Udaipur, Rajasthan
• The Riverside School in Ahmedabad, Gujurat
• Samaritan Mission School (High) in Howrah, Kolkata
• Zilla Parishad Primary School, Kallekhetpada, in the Nandurbar district, Maharashtra

Centred on the theme of ‘Learning Today’, each school will host a virtual event to demonstrate how to bring change, based on their own experiences.